title: Micro/nanobinary structure of silver films on copper alloys with stable water-repellent property under dynamic conditions.
abstract: Facile galvanic replacement was adopted to grow cauliflower-like and dendrite coral-like silver films on commercial copper alloy substrates. Both types of silver films possess micro/nanobinary structures, the formation and evolution of which are achieved through the oriented attachment growth mechanism. After modification by a monolayer of n-dodecanethiol, the cauliflower-like silver film becomes hydrophobic with a contact angle (CA) of 115 +/- 1 degrees and a CA hysteresis of 74 +/- 1 degrees and the dendrite coral-like silver film exhibits the extreme hydrophobicity characterized by a CA of 158 +/- 1 degrees and a CA hysteresis of less than 2 +/- 1 degrees . Furthermore, the bouncing property of millimeter-sized water droplets on the modified dendrite coral-like silver surface is much better than that on the modified cauliflower-like silver surface. The different wetting property between the two silver films is attributed to the surface roughness. Larger surface roughness provided by the dendrite coral-like silver film means more air pockets, among the micro/nanobinary structures, that bounce water droplets back more strongly. The dynamic bouncing behavior of water droplets, such as restitution coefficient and contact time, on the superhydrophobic modified cauliflower-like silver surface was also investigated at different impact velocities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Material Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 310027, PR China. changdong_gu@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Changdong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Hang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Jiangping
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: Tong-Yi
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Zhang