Superhydrophobic Effects of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Micropatterned Surfaces: 3-D Arrays Mimicking the Lotus Leaf
- 8 November 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Langmuir
- Vol. 22 (26), 11072-11076
- https://doi.org/10.1021/la060925d
Abstract
The contact angle of water has been measured on a series of self-assembled monolayers (SAM) on thermally evaporated and sputter coated silver surfaces. It is found that micropatterning the surface using nanosphere lithography leads to large increases in the contact angle and generates superhydrophobic surfaces with contact angles >150 degrees. The type of functional groups on the SAMs, the metal island size, and the metal island thickness all contribute to the measured contact angle. The maximum contact angle found was 161 degrees for a fluorinated alkanethiol on 80 nm thick silver islands.Keywords
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