title: Designing transparent superamphiphobic coatings directed by carbon nanotubes.
abstract: Creating surfaces with superamphiphobic property and optical transparency simultaneously would have fundamental and practical significance but has been proven extremely challenging. Herein, we develop a transparent superamphiphobic coating using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as the template by a facile approach. CNTs enwrapped with SiO2 coating was produced by a sol-gel method and then sprayed onto the glass slides to form coatings. Subsequent thermal treatment and surface fluoration allowed the sprayed coating to exhibit enhanced transparency across a broad spectrum of ultraviolet and visible wavelengths and also display superrepellency toward water and a number of organic liquids, such as dodecane. The obtained transparent coating can sustain its superamphiphobicity even after thermal treatment at 400 °C. Separate experiment demonstrated that the CNTs-directed geometrical structure played a key role in establishing superamphiphobicity.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianshui Road 18th, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
authors.forename: Xiaotao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianshui Road 18th, Lanzhou 730000, PR China. Electronic address: zzzhang@licp.cas.cn.
authors.forename: Zhaozhu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianshui Road 18th, Lanzhou 730000, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, PR China.
authors.forename: Guina
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianshui Road 18th, Lanzhou 730000, PR China. Electronic address: xhmen@licp.cas.cn.
authors.forename: Xuehu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Men
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianshui Road 18th, Lanzhou 730000, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, PR China.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianshui Road 18th, Lanzhou 730000, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, PR China.
authors.forename: Xiaoyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
mesh_terms: D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D037742:Nanotubes, Carbon
keywords: Controllable surface wettability; Superamphiphobic; Thermal durability; Transparent coating