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Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Metal Surfaces for Anti-Icing Applications
Published on: August 15, 2018
A transparent and photo-patternable superhydrophobic film
Xintong Zhang1, Hiroki Kono, Zhaoyue Liu
1Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, West 614, KSP Buildings, 3-2-1 Sakado, Takatsu-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa 213-0012, Japan.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 26, 2008
Abstract:
A transparent superhydrophobic TiO2 film, prepared by spin-coating a TiO2 slurry on a glass substrate and modifying the resultant TiO2 film with fluoroalkylsilane molecules, was patterned by illumination with ultraviolet light through a photomask, producing a superhydrophobic/superhydrophilic surface micropattern with very small superhydrophilic areas, which we were able to selectively fill with alginate hydrogel.
