Off-Stoichiometry Thiol-Ene (OSTE) Micro Mushroom Forest: A Superhydrophobic Substrate.

ABSTRACT: Superhydrophobic surfaces have been used in various fields of engineering due to their resistance to corrosion and fouling and their ability to control fluid movement. Traditionally, superhydrophobic surfaces are fabricated via chemical methods of changing the surface energy or mechanical methods of controlling the surface topology. Many of the conventional mechanical methods use a top-to-bottom scheme to control the surface topolopy. Here, we develop a novel fabrication method of superhydrophobic substrates using a bottom-to-top scheme via polymer OSTE, which is a prototyping polymer material developed for the fabrication of microchips due to its superior photocuring ability, mechanical properties, and surface modification ability. We fabricate a superhydrophobic substrate by OSTE-OSTE mi

SUBMITTER: Li H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11433739 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature