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A novel and expeditious method to fabricate superhydrophobic metal carboxylate surface

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This article has presented a novel method to fabricate superhydrophobic metal carboxylate surface on substrates like copper, ferrum, etc. This method markedly shortened the fabrication time to less than one second. The superhydrophobic effect is even better that the contact angle (CA) is 170±1° and the sliding angle (SA) <2°. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images showed micro-nano flower-like structures. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) confirmed that the flower-like structures are composed of Cu[CH3(CH2)12COO]2. The ethanol solution containing fatty acid and metal salt plays a key role in this method. This method has tremendous potentials in industrial production of superhydrophobic materials.

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The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Duyang Zang for valuable discussions. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 10872172 and the Graduate Starting Seed Fund of Northwestern Polytechnical University under Grant No Z2010080.

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    Feng Li, Xingguo Geng, Zhi Chen & Lei Zhao

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Li, F., Geng, X., Chen, Z. et al. A novel and expeditious method to fabricate superhydrophobic metal carboxylate surface. Appl. Phys. A 106, 35–40 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-011-6657-9

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