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Towards a tunable and switchable water adhesion on a TiO(2) nanotube film with patterned wettability
Daoai Wang1, Ying Liu, Xinjie Liu
1State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|November 12, 2009
Abstract:
Tunable water adhesion was realized on a TiO(2) nanotube film with patterned wettability formed via selective illumination through a mask. Meanwhile, the adhesion can be switched between sliding superhydrophobicity and sticky superhydrophobicity by masked illumination and heat annealing.
