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Drawing and Hydrophobicity-patterning Long Polydimethylsiloxane Silicone Filaments
Published on: January 7, 2019
High Throughput Direct Laser Interferential Patterning of Aluminum for Fabrication of Super Hydrophobic Surfaces
Valentin Lang1,2, Bogdan Voisiat3, Andrés Fabián Lasagni4,5
1Institute for Manufacturing Technology, Technische Universität Dresden, George-Bähr-Strasse 3c, 01069 Dresden, Germany. valentin.lang@tu-dresden.de.
Abstract:
This work addresses the fabrication of hydrophobic surface structures by means of direct laser interference patterning using an optical setup optimized for high throughput processing. The developed optical assembly is used to shape the laser beam intensity as well as to obtain the two sub beams required for creating the interference pattern. The resulting beam profile consists of an elongated rectangular laser spot with 5.0 mm × 0.1 mm size, which enables the optimized utilization of the laser fluence available from an ns-pulsed laser with a wavelength of 1064 nm. Depending on the pulse repetition rate applied, heating of the substrate volume generated by heat accumulation encouraged exceptionally high aspect ratios of the trench structures due to melt flow dynamic material deformation. Finally, water contact angle measurements of the produced structures permitted the demonstration of the capability of controlling the wetting angle, in which this effect does not only depend on the height of the generated surface structures but also on their morphology.
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