He, X, Tian, F, Bai, X et al. (3 more authors) (2020) Biomimetic lubricant-infused titania nanoparticle surfaces via layer-by-layer deposition to control biofouling. Applied Surface Science, 515. 146064. ISSN 0169-4332
Abstract
Lubricant-infused surfaces have attracted a lot of attention in antifouling applications. Previously, lubricant-infused surfaces fabricated by a layer-by-layer process involved two or more polyelectrolytes and needed post-treatments to generate pores. Here, the paper proposes a layer-by-layer sol-gel process to prepare a lubricant-infused surface. This process only involves a single material and without any post-treatment. The nanostructured titania layers were layer-by-layer assembled onto 316L stainless steel substrates by immersing the substrates into a titanium (IV) butoxide ethanol solution. The titania layers were subsequently surface-functionalized by fluorinated silanes and infiltrated with fluorinated lubricant to form lubricant-infused nanoparticle surfaces. The physicochemical properties of the lubricant-infused nanoparticle surfaces dominated the antifouling performance. These results give some insight into the construction of lubricant-infused nanoparticle surfaces with desirable liquid repellency and antifouling properties via a layer-by-layer sol-gel process.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in Applied Surface Science. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Lubricant-infused; Nanoparticle surface; Layer-by-layer sol-gel process; Wettability; Antifouling |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Mechanical Engineering (Leeds) > Institute of Functional Surfaces (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Apr 2020 14:18 |
Last Modified: | 12 Mar 2021 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.146064 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160023 |
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