TiO2 nanowire-templated hierarchical nanowire network as water-repelling coating.

ABSTRACT: Extraordinary water-repelling properties of superhydrophobic surfaces make them novel candidates for a great variety of potential applications. A general approach to achieve superhydrophobicity requires low-energy coating on the surface and roughness on nano- and micrometre scale. However, typical construction of superhydrophobic surfaces with micro-nano structure through top-down fabrication is restricted by sophisticated fabrication techniques and limited choices of substrate materials. Micro-nanoscale topographies templated by conventional microparticles through surface coating may produce large variations in roughness and uncontrollable defects, resulting in poorly controlled surface morphology and wettability. In this work, micro-nanoscale hierarchical nanowire network was fabricated

SUBMITTER: Hang T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5750032 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature