Super-Hydrophobic PDMS Surface with Ultra-Low Adhesive Force Export

@article{citeulike:4294456, abstract = {Summary: Rough polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surface containing micro-, submicro- and nano-composite structures was fabricated using a facile one-step laser etching method. Such surface shows a super-hydrophobic character with contact angle higher than 160° and sliding angle lower than 5°, i.e. self-cleaning effect like lotus leaf. The wettabilities of the rough PDMS surfaces can be tunable by simply controlling the size of etched microstructures. The adhesive force between etched PDMS surface and water droplet is evaluated, and the structure effect is deduced by comparing it with those own a single nano- or micro-scale structures. This super-hydrophobic PDMS surface can be widely applied to many areas such as liquid transportation without loss, and micro-pump (creating pushing-force) needless micro-fluidic devices.}, address = {Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China; Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China; Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Korea}, author = {Jin, Meihua and Feng, Xinjian and Xi, Jinming and Zhai, Jin and Cho, Kilwon and Feng, Lin and Jiang, Lei}, citeulike-article-id = {4294456}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/marc.200500458}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/112139220/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1002/marc.200500458}, journal = {Macromolecular Rapid Communications}, keywords = {dual-scale-roughness, etching, pdms, superhydrophobic, surface}, number = {22}, pages = {1805--1809}, posted-at = {2009-04-09 14:08:05}, priority = {2}, title = {Super-Hydrophobic PDMS Surface with Ultra-Low Adhesive Force}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/marc.200500458}, volume = {26}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4294456 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4294456 N2 - Summary: Rough polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) surface containing micro-, submicro- and nano-composite structures was fabricated using a facile one-step laser etching method. Such surface shows a super-hydrophobic character with contact angle higher than 160° and sliding angle lower than 5°, i.e. self-cleaning effect like lotus leaf. The wettabilities of the rough PDMS surfaces can be tunable by simply controlling the size of etched microstructures. The adhesive force between etched PDMS surface and water droplet is evaluated, and the structure effect is deduced by comparing it with those own a single nano- or micro-scale structures. This super-hydrophobic PDMS surface can be widely applied to many areas such as liquid transportation without loss, and micro-pump (creating pushing-force) needless micro-fluidic devices. IS - 22 JF - Macromolecular Rapid Communications AD - Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China; Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China; Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, Korea EP - 1809 TI - Super-Hydrophobic PDMS Surface with Ultra-Low Adhesive Force VL - 26 SP - 1805 KW - dual-scale-roughness KW - etching KW - pdms KW - superhydrophobic KW - surface AU - Jin, Meihua AU - Feng, Xinjian AU - Xi, Jinming AU - Zhai, Jin AU - Cho, Kilwon AU - Feng, Lin AU - Jiang, Lei PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/marc.200500458 ER -