Wetting behaviour of hydrophilic and hydrophobic nanostructured porous anodic alumina
Wetting behaviour of hydrophilic and hydrophobic nanostructured porous anodic alumina
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DOI:
10.1016/j.colsurfa.2012.12.010
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发表时间:
2013-03-05
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5.2
通讯作者:
Mattia, Davide
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作者:
Leese, Hannah;Bhurtun, Vivek;Mattia, Davide
This paper investigates the effect of surface structure and chemistry on the wetting properties of nanostructured porous anodic alumina (PAA). Measurements of the equilibrium apparent contact angle (APCA) were first taken on as produced hydrophilic nanoporous alumina with a range of pore diameters from 10 to 170 nm, yielding a range of contact angles from 10 to 100 degrees. The PAAs were then coated with a fluorosilane to change the surface chemistry of the nanostructures. The same trend was observed as in the hydrophilic case, but the contact angles increased from 106 to 150 degrees for pores sizes ranging from 10 to 100 nm for the hydrophobic PM. These results probe the limits of the current wetting models such as the Cassie-Baxter and Wenzel equations for nanostructured materials. A geometric model has been developed using the equation proposed by Marmur to explain the wetting properties of the bare- and silanized-PAA. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.