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Super-hydrophobic coating prepared by mechanical milling method

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In mechanical milling, stearic acid can be used as a process control agent to reduce the interface energy between powders and contribute to the crushing of powder particulates. In this study, a super-hydrophobic coating with a contact angle of 153° ± 2° was fabricated by ball milling a copper powder and stearic acid mixture onto an aluminum foil. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy demonstrated that stearic acid was successfully transferred to the surface of the copper powder, and scanning electron microscopy revealed that the structure of the super-hydrophobic coating consisted of irregular particles and sheets. The combined effect of low surface free energy and rough structure of the copper-based coating contributed to the super-hydrophobicity. The reported method is beneficial to preparing super-hydrophobic materials by the solid-state synthesis.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the National Natural Science Funds of China (21706218), Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (Program No. 2021GY-205, No. 2021JM-536, No. 2021JM-531, No. 2021JQ-877, and No. 2021JM-534), the Youth Innovation Team of Shaanxi Universities and the Special Fund for Talent Research of Xijing University (NO. XJ20B10).

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    Haiyang Wang, Jianjing Gao, Zemin He, Shaopeng Tian, Kexuan Li, Yuzhen Zhao & Zongcheng Miao

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Polytechnic University, Xi’an, 710048, People’s Republic of China

    Miaomiao Liang

  3. School of Artificial Intelligence, Optics and Electronics (iOPEN), Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Zongcheng Miao

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Wang, H., Liang, M., Gao, J. et al. Super-hydrophobic coating prepared by mechanical milling method. J Coat Technol Res 19, 587–595 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11998-021-00546-1

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