title: Peanut leaf inspired multifunctional surfaces.
abstract: Nature has long served as a source of inspiration for scientists and engineers to design and construct multifunctional artificial materials. The lotus and the peanut are two typical plants living in the aquatic and the arid (or semiarid) habitats, respectively, which have evolved different optimized solutions to survive. For the lotus leaf, an air layer is formed between its surface and water, exhibiting a discontinuous three-phase contact line, which resulted in the low adhesive superhydrophobic self-cleaning effect to avoid the leaf decomposition. In contrast to the lotus leaf, the peanut leaf shows high-adhesive superhydrophobicity, arising from the formation of the quasi-continuous and discontinuous three-phase contact line at the microscale and nanoscale, respectively, which provides a new avenue for the fabrication of high adhesive superhydrophobic materials. Further, this high adhesive and superhydrophobic peanut leaf is proved to be efficient in fog capture. Inspired by the peanut leaf, multifunctional surfaces with structural similarity to the natural peanut leaf are prepared, exhibiting simultaneous superhydrophobicity and high adhesion towards water.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, PR China.
authors.forename: Shuai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ju
authors.forename: Yuchen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: Yaxu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Xiaolin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Shixue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dou
authors.forename: Kesong
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D000269:Adhesives / Q000737:chemistry; D010367:Arachis / Q000737:chemistry*; D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D018515:Plant Leaves / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties; D017155:Wettability
chemical_list: D000269:Adhesives
keywords: bio-inspired; multifunctional; multiscale; superhydrophobic; wettability