title: Fabrication of superhydrophobic polymer films with hierarchical silver microbowl array structures.
abstract: Flexible superhydrophobic polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) films with silver bowl-like array structure are fabricated based on the thermal evaporation with sphere monolayer as templates and the modification of 1H, 1H, 2H, 2H-perfluorodecanethiol on silver surface. The silver microbowl arrays were composed of silver nanoparticles with an average diameter size of ca. 10 nm. The polymer films exhibit excellent stability and remarkable superhydrophobicity with a high water contact angle (CA) of about 163° and a low sliding angle (SA) of less than 3°.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, PR China.
authors.forename: Miaojun
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Dianpeng
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Hongbo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yandong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shoulei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Lifeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chi