• 文献标题:   Superhydrophobic lotus-leaf-like surface made from reduced graphene oxide through soft-lithographic duplication
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YUN XW, XIONG ZY, HE YN, WANG XG
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  • 出版物名称:   RSC ADVANCES
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  • 通讯作者地址:   Tsinghua Univ
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1039/c9ra10373b
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

In this work, reduced graphene oxide (RGO) was used as a material to fabricate superhydrophobic lotus-leaf-like surfaces through soft-lithographic duplication. In the process, a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) stamp was prepared by replica molding against the surfaces of fresh lotus leaves that functioned as masters. A dispersion of octadecylamine-modified reduced graphene oxide (ODA-RGO) in tetrahydrofuran (THF) was used as "ink". The lotus-leaf-like surfaces were fabricated by microcontact printing on the solid substrates. The results showed that due to the good processibility of the ODA-RGO dispersion, the printed layers display papillary micro/nano-structures with high fidelity to the surfaces of lotus leaves. The RGO-based lotus-leaf-like surfaces possess superhydrophobic characteristics with a water contact angle larger than 160 degrees and the contact angle hysteresis less than 5 degrees. Due to the excellent chemical stability of the RGO sheets, as-prepared surfaces show remarkable superhydrophobic stability. The lotus-leaf-like surfaces maintain the superhydrophobicity after heating treatment at 150 degrees C for 24 h or being exposed to corrosive solutions with different pH values for 12 h. The present findings prove that the RGO-based material is an ideal candidate for fabrication of environment-durable lotus-leaf-like surfaces, which can be expected to have applications in different areas.