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Rational Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Nanocone Surface for Dynamic Water Repellency and Anti-icing Potential

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In this work, a simple and economic route was presented to fabricate an anti-icing superhydrophobic surface with nanocone structures, which were constructed only by one-step facile method of hydrothermal treatment with zinc acetate on the aluminum substrate. After modifying with fluoroalkylsilane (FAS-17), the nanocone structures with the appropriate size could induce the high superhydrophobicity with the water contact angle reaching 160.2° ± 0.4° and the sliding angle only being 1° ± 0.5°. Under the dynamic environments, the impact droplets could rapidly bounced off the surface with the shorter contact time of ~10.6 ms, and it was mainly attributing to lower capillary adhesive force (water adhesion force of 4.1 μN) induced by the open system of nanocone structures. Furthermore, the superhydrophobic nanocone surfaces were verified to be a promising anti-icing/icephobic materials, on which the water droplets needed to spend the time of ~517 s to complete the entire freezing process at −10 °C, displaying the increased ~50 times of icing-delay performance comparing with untreated substrate. Even if ice finally was formed on the superhydrophobic nanocone surfaces, it could be easily removed away with lower ice adhesion of ~45 kPa. The repeatable measurement of ice adhesion strength on the same place of the superhydrophobic surface is still far less than the surface ice adhesion of smooth substrate, exhibiting better stability.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51671105 and 51705244), the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talents (BX201600073), the Project Funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2017M610329), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20170790), Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds (No. 1701200B), General Project of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education (Y201737320), the NUAA Innovation Program for Graduate Education (kfjj20170608, kfjj20180609) and A Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.

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  1. College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China

    Yuehan Xie, Yizhou Shen, Jie Tao, Mingming Jin, Yu Wu & Wenqing Hou

  2. Department of Materials Chemistry, Qiuzhen School, Huzhou University, Huzhou, 313000, China

    Haifeng Chen

  3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue 50, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

    Yizhou Shen

  4. Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Inorganic Function Composites, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 210016, China

    Jie Tao

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Xie, Y., Chen, H., Shen, Y. et al. Rational Fabrication of Superhydrophobic Nanocone Surface for Dynamic Water Repellency and Anti-icing Potential. J Bionic Eng 16, 27–37 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42235-019-0003-x

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