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New approach to fabricate an extremely super-amphiphobic surface based on fluorinated silica nanoparticles
(2008-09-15)
Sheen, Yuung-Ching
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Huang, Yuan-Chang
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Liao, Chun-Syong
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Chou, Hisn-Yi
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Chang, Feng-Chih
Superoleophobic surfaces possessing static contact angles greater than 140 degrees with organic liquids are extremely rare. A simple approach has been developed to fabricate an extremely superamphiphobic coating material based on fluorinated silica nanoparticles resulting contact angles of water and diiodomethane at 167.5 degrees and 158.6 degrees, respectively. The contact angle of diiodomethane at 158.6 degrees is substantially higher than the highest literature reported value we know of at 110 degrees. In addition, this developed film also possesses extremely high contact angles with other organic liquids such as soybean oil (146.6 degrees), decahysronaphthalene (142.5 degrees), diesel fuel (140.4 degrees), and xylene (140.5 degrees). This developed superamphiphobic organic-inorganic hybrid film possesses unique liquid repellency for both water and organic liquids that can be used as functional coatings on numerous substrates by a simple coating process. (C) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Non-fluorinated superamphiphobic surfaces through sol-gel processing of methyltriethoxysilane and tetraethoxysilane
(2009-03-15)
Sheen, Yuung-Ching
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Chang, Wei-Hsuan
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Chen, Wen-Chang
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Chang, Yih-Her
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Huang, Yuan-Chang
In this study, a simple approach was developed to fabricate an extremely superamphiphobic coating material by the tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and methyltriethoxysilane (MTES) sol-gel derived materials. TEOS and MTES derived moieties were designed for a physical roughness and hydrophobic surface characteristic, respectively. The (29)Si solid-state NMR and ESCA analysis showed the coated silica composition was similar to the feeding ratios of TEOS/MTES. The surface structure characterized from SEM and TEM suggested the nanoparticle-based silica surface was observed at a high TEOS/MTES content but changed to a relatively smooth surface at a low TEOS content. The contact angles of water and CH(2)I(2) on the pure TEOS derived coated surface were both 0 degrees due to the hydrophilic Si-OH group. As the MTES composition increased to 25 mol% (T5M3), the coated surface had the contact angles of 149.8 degrees and 133.1 degrees for water and CH(2)I(2), respectively. It revealed that the T5M3-coated surface exhibited both super-hydrophobicity and super-oleophobicity, i.e., superamphiphobicity. Also, it had a relatively low-surface energy (1.38 mJ m(-2)) considerably lower than that of the F-silane-coated surface with 39.3 mJ m(-2). As the MTES composition increased further, both contact angles of water and CH(2)I(2) decreased. Especially, they decreased dramatically at the MTES feeding composition higher than 75 mol%, due to the much less rough surface at a higher MTES composition. The present study suggests that superamphiphobic surface could be achieved by non-fluorinated sol-gel derived silica materials. (C) 2008 Published by Elsevier B.V.