A facile bacterial assisted electrochemical self-assembly of polypyrrole micro-pillars: towards underwater low adhesive superoleophobicity

Nanoscale. 2014 Jan 7;6(1):190-4. doi: 10.1039/c3nr03788f. Epub 2013 Nov 14.

Abstract

By taking advantage of bacterial extracellular electron transfer behavior, a facile method was developed to fabricate oriented polypyrrole micro-pillars (PPy-MP) with nanoscale surface roughness. Microbes acted as a living conductive template on which PPy was in situ polymerized. The as-prepared PPy-MP exhibit the distinctive underwater low adhesive superoleophobicity which is attributable to the unique hierarchical micro/nano-structures and the high surface energy by doping with inorganic small anions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Bacteria / metabolism*
  • Biofilms
  • Electrochemical Techniques
  • Electrodes
  • Electron Transport
  • Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
  • Nanostructures / chemistry
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Polymers / chemistry*
  • Pyrroles / chemistry*
  • Shewanella / physiology
  • Surface Properties
  • Wettability

Substances

  • Polymers
  • Pyrroles
  • polypyrrole