Silver mirror reaction as an approach to construct superhydrophobic surfaces with high reflectivity.
Superhydrophobic surfaces with high reflectivity might provide a promising self-cleaning approach in a wide variety of optical applications ranging from traffic to solar energy industries. However, the contradiction between the hierarchical micronanostructure and the high reflectivity is a challenge for superhydrophobic materials with high reflectivity. Here we report a facile method to fabricate a superhydrophobic silver film with reflectivity as high as that of polished silicon by carefully controlling the seed-induced silver mirror reaction.
Shen
Liyan
L
Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Macromolecule Synthesis and Functionalzation of Minster of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Ji
Jian
J
Shen
Jiacong
J