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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, and the Tampere University of Technology, Finland, have found a new way of applying a structured coating for liquid repellency.
By using liquid flame spray, the method is extremely fast. Not only water but also oil drops do not adhere to these surfaces but remain spherical and bounce or roll off easily.
Potential applications of surfaces that are super liquid-repellent range from protective and self-cleaning textiles, goggles and windows for medical devices and gas exchange membranes. Applications of liquid-repellent coatings depend not only on their wetting properties, but also on their transparency, robustness, and fabrication cost and speed. Besides of being super-repellent against liquids, this new coating shows high transparency and withstands impacting high-velocity oil and water drops.
These extraordinary properties are based on a specific structure of the coating composed of nanometer-sized silicon dioxide–titanium dioxide particles. The method can be scaled up to coat large surface areas. Liquid flame spray is already used in industry to color glass and produce optical fibers. As the exposure time of the substrate to the flame is extremely short, even highly flammable materials like paper and wood can be coated.
The researchers have combined this fast and scalable processing method with the extraordinary liquid-repellent properties. They also discussed the criteria the coating needs to fulfill to achieve the superior liquid repellency. They described in detail how they managed to tune the coating morphology to meet these criteria. Their strategy can be widely applied to produce coatings composed of different materials because liquid flame spray can be used to synthesize a broad range of oxides, metal nanoparticles, and their mixtures.
Original article:
Hannu Teisala, Florian Geyer, Janne Haapanen, Paxton Juuti, Jyrki M. Mäkelä, Doris Vollmer, Hans-Jürgen Butt: Ultrafast Processing of Hierarchical Nanotexture for a Transparent Superamphiphobic Coating with Extremely Low Roll-Off Angle and High Impalement Pressure. Advanced Materials, 27 February 2018.
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201706529
About the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research:
The Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) ranks among the globally leading research centers in the field of polymer research since its foundation in 1984. The focus on soft materials and macromolecular materials has resulted in the worldwide unique position of the MPI-P and its research focus. Fundamental polymers research on both production and characterization as well as analysis of physical and chemical properties are conducted by scientific collaborators from all over the world. Presently over 500 people are working at the MPI-P, the vast majority of whom are engaged in scientific research.
http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/home/en
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201706529/abstract
http://projects.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/vollmerd/index.php?page=home
http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/physics_interfaces
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