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Anti-reflection OTS-treated SiO2 thin films with super-hydrophobic property

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Synthesizing multifunctional films to apply to the glasses for optical and advanced engineering applications, especially for concentrating solar power application, is a severe challenge. Herein, we report an anti-reflection SiO2 thin films with super-hydrophobic property. The SiO2 thin films are successfully synthesized on the soda lime glass by sol-gel spin-coating method, using tetraethylorthosilicate as a precursor and octadecyltrichlorosilane as a modification agent. The properties of films were characterized by fourier transform infrared spectra, field emission scanning electron microscopy, UV–VIS–NIR spectrophotometer and water contact angles apparatus. The results indicate that anti-reflection SiO2 thin films have excellent visible light transmittance ranging from 97.8 to 103.4% with treatment time in tetraethylorthosilicate solution increasing from 1 min to 3 h. Moreover, such film exhibits super-hydrophobic property with water contact angles of 150.6° when treatment time is 3 h, owning to a hierarchical structure of the SiO2 nanoparticles (~50 nm) and microscale dendritic aggregates. Fortunately, anti-reflection octadecyltrichlorosilane-treated SiO2 films with super-hydrophobic property display a promising application in various fields, especially in concentrating solar power for reducing specular reflectance efficiency.

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The authors would like to express sincere thanks for the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51372179), the Science and Technology Planning Project of Hubei Province (2014BAA136), the Hubei Province Foreign Science and Technology Project (2016AHB027).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures of Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Hong Li, Naiyi Li, Yanwen Zhang & Huiting He

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1595, USA

    Zirui Liu

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Li, H., Li, N., Zhang, Y. et al. Anti-reflection OTS-treated SiO2 thin films with super-hydrophobic property. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol 83, 518–526 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-017-4458-0

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