Fabrication of microcavity-array superhydrophobic surfaces using an improved template method

PanPan Peng; Qingping Ke; Gen Zhou; Tiandi Tang

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2012.12.036

Fabrication of microcavity-array superhydrophobic surfaces using an improved template method

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2013 Apr 1:395:326-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2012.12.036. Epub 2012 Dec 28.

Authors

PanPan Peng¹, Qingping Ke, Gen Zhou, Tiandi Tang

Affiliation

¹ College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Wenzhou University, Zhejiang 325035, PR China.

PMID: 23332936
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2012.12.036

Abstract

We fabricated the first superhydrophobic (SH) surface with microcavities, using a simple process. The process included an improved template method (ITM) for constructing the SH surface with cavities, using taro leaves as a pattern mask, and a dip-coating method for modifying the SH surface. The results obtained using the ITM are significantly better than those achieved using traditional template methods. In addition, the water-repellence of the microcavities surface was significantly enhanced by decorating with a layer of polymerized n-octadecylsiloxane nanosheets.