Abstract:
Omniphobic surfaces that can repel fluids at temperatures higher than 100 °C are rare. Most state-of-the-art liquid-repellent materials are based on the lotus effect, where a thin air layer is maintained throughout micro/nanotextures leading to high mobility of liquids. However, such behavior eventually fails at elevated temperatures when the surface tension of test liquids decreases significantly. Here, we demonstrate a class of lubricant-infused structuredsurfaces that can maintain a robust omniphobic state even for low-surface-tension liquids at temperatures up to at least 200 °C. We also demonstrate how liquid mobility on such surfaces can be tuned by a factor of 1000.
Notes:
We thank P. Kim for helpful discussions regarding TGA. M.N.M. gratefully acknowledges a Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowship and a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The work was supported partially by the ONR MURI Award No. N00014-12-1-0875 and by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), U.S. Department of Energy, under Award Number DEAR0000326. We acknowledge the use of the facilities at the Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems supported by the NSF under Award No. ECS-0335765.
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