Fabrication of bio-inspired nitinol alloy surface with tunable anisotropic wetting and high adhesive ability

Fabrication of super-hydrophobic nickel film on copper substrate with improved corrosion inhibition by electrodeposition process

“…Besides, some special chemical components are also significant for the acquisition of super-hydrophobic surface [10][11]. Inspired by nature, two elements are preferable to obtain super-hydrophobicity: (1) a rough surface texture with unique binary structure and (2) modification of surface chemistry with low-free-energy coating [12].…”

“…So far, many different techniques have been proposed to successfully achieve bioinspired super-hydrophobic surface through modifying surface morphology and surface chemical compositions including chemical vapor deposition [13]. sol-gel [14], chemical etching [15], laser surface texturing [8][9][10]16], thermal embossing [17] and electrodeposition [18], etc. However, the first three mentioned techniques are limited due to expensive equipment, tedious chemical treatments and complicated multi-step processing procedures [19][20].…”

Droplet Impact on the Super-Hydrophobic Surface with Micro-Pillar Arrays Fabricated by Hybrid Laser Ablation and Silanization Process

“…Inspired by natural lotus leaves [2], rose petals [3], and butterfly wings [4], super-hydrophobic surfaces (i.e., apparent contact angle above 150° and sliding angle below 10°) have been successfully mimicked through the synergetic effects of micro/nanostructure fabrication and surface chemical modification [5,6,7,8,9,10]. Due to their enormous potential applications including anti-icing [11], drag reduction [12], self-cleaning [13], anti-bacteria [14], and corrosion resistance [15], super-hydrophobic surface mimicry has been extensively developed by state-of-the-art techniques, such as thermal imprinting [16,17], chemical vapor deposition [18], coating [19], electrochemical deposition [20,21], and laser texturing [22,23,24,25,26,27]. Particularly, laser texturing can be seen as one of the facile approaches, and therefore can be extensively utilized to fabricate super-hydrophobic substrates owing to its precise control of surface fabrication with three dimensional (3D) hierarchical structures [28].…”

Study on the Fabrication of Super-Hydrophobic Surface on Inconel Alloy via Nanosecond Laser Ablation

“…By investigating materials from natural creatures including lotus leaves and butterfly wings, two main factors for achieving super-hydrophobic surfaces are rough micro/nano structures and the low-free-energy coatings [11]. Up to now, many scholars design functional interface with super-hydrophobicity using the approaches of thermal embossing [12], sol-gel [13], chemical etching [14,15], electrodeposition [16,17], chemical vapor deposition [18], and laser ablation [19,20,21,22,23,24].…”