Towards a tunable and switchable water adhesion on a TiO2nanotube film with patterned wettability

Daoai Wang; Ying Liu; Xinjie Liu; Feng Zhou; Weimin Liu; Qunji Xue

doi:10.1039/B914630J

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Towards a tunable and switchable water adhesion on a TiO₂nanotube film with patterned wettability†

Daoai Wang,^ab Ying Liu,^ab Xinjie Liu,^ab Feng Zhou,*^a Weimin Liu^a and Qunji Xue^a

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^a State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
E-mail: zhouf@lzb.ac.cn

^b Graduate College of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China

Abstract

Tunable water adhesion was realized on a TiO₂nanotube film with patterned wettability formed via selective illumination through a mask. Meanwhile, the adhesion can be switched between sliding superhydrophobicity and sticky superhydrophobicity by masked illumination and heat annealing.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B914630J
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 20 Jul 2009
Accepted: 18 Sep 2009
First published: 09 Oct 2009

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Chem. Commun., 2009, 7018-7020

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Towards a tunable and switchable water adhesion on a TiO₂nanotube film with patterned wettability

D. Wang, Y. Liu, X. Liu, F. Zhou, W. Liu and Q. Xue, Chem. Commun., 2009, 7018 DOI: 10.1039/B914630J

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