Tunable wettability by counterion exchange at the surface of electrostatic self-assembled multilayers.
A novel method to tune surface wettability rapidly and reversibly has been developed by ion exchange of the counterions at the surface of a multilayer film assembled via electrostatic interaction.
Wang
Liming
L
State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, China.
Lin
Yuan
Y
Peng
Bo
B
Su
Zhaohui
Z