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Methodologies Involved in Manufacturing Self-Assembled Breath-Figures Patterns: Drop-Casting and Spin- and Dip-Coating – Characterization of Microporous Surfaces

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Methodologies involved in manufacturing of self-assembled breath-figures patterns, namely: emulsion technique, drop-casting, spin- and dip-coating, are treated in detail. Physical processes occurring under these methods are discussed. Characterization of microporous surfaces with various experimental techniques is addressed. Surface characterization of polymer honeycomb reliefs with apparent contact angles, optical microscopy, SEM, ESEM, AFM, FTIR and Raman spectroscopies, NMR, XPS, XRD, TGA, DTA, DSC, and mass-spectroscopy methods are surveyed. Advantages and disadvantages of these techniques are discussed. Wetting of microporous surfaces is treated; the Cassie and Wenzel models of wetting of micro-rough surfaces are reviewed. Mathematical techniques (Voronoi entropy, Minkowski functional, etc.) enabling quantification of ordering inherent for honeycomb breath-figures topographies are reviewed.

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Rodríguez-Hernández, J., Bormashenko, E. (2020). Methodologies Involved in Manufacturing Self-Assembled Breath-Figures Patterns: Drop-Casting and Spin- and Dip-Coating – Characterization of Microporous Surfaces. In: Breath Figures . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51136-4_4

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