Superhydrophobic polyethylcyanoacrylate coatings. Contact area with water measured by Raman spectral images, contact angle and Cassie–Baxter model

Autor: M. V. Puydinger dos Santos, E. F. de Souza, Omar Teschke, Luiz Orivaldo Bonugli
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 388:306-312
ISSN: 0021-9797
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2012.08.055
Popis: Apolar fibers wired into a mesh-like microstructure forming a coating with a contact angle larger than 160° and fabricated by polycyanoacrylate polymerization are described. Interconnected fibers with diameters measuring approximately 5 μm are formed by texturized linear or folded nanowires. The structure forming the deposited film occupies ∼1.5% of the coating’s top geometric area. This value agrees with the water/coating contact area given by the Cassie–Baxter contact-angle model (∼1.5%). The spatial distribution of the surface in contact with water was determined by Raman spectral imaging (∼1.5%) using the polycyanoacrylate lines and by scanning electron microscopy (∼2.0%).
Databáze: OpenAIRE