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Superomniphobic surfaces for easy-removals of environmental-related liquids after icing and melting

Lizhong Wang, Ze Tian, Xiao Luo, Changhao Chen, Guochen Jiang, Xinyu Hu, Rui Peng, Hongjun Zhang, Minlin Zhong()
Laser Materials Processing Research Center, Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials Processing Technology (Ministry of Education), Joint Research Center for Advanced Materials & Anti-icing of Tsinghua University (SMSE)-AVIC ARI, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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The specially designed superomniphobic surfaces realize the easy-removals of environmental-related liquids after icing and melting, and their capability for large-scale fabrications greatly prompts applications in practical occasions from transportation and telecommunications to energy and biomedicine.

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Superhydrophobic surfaces often lose the easy-removal ability of liquids during icing & melting cycles due to the impalement phenomena of air pockets. Especially for the most common mixed liquids in normal life, their difficult-removals after icing and melting have brought colossal troubles in the fields of aviation, energy, biomedicine, etc. Here we adopt the ultrafast laser to fabricate the optimal micro-nanostructured surfaces, realizing excellent superomniphobicity for seven environmental-related liquids. It is demonstrated that different droplets on the surfaces recover well to the original Cassie-Baxter state after melting, and can be removed easily at low tilted angles. The ice adhesion strengths of the seven liquids as low as 5 kPa and the micro-nanostructure durability ensure the long-term easy-removal after icing. Compared with the ice adhesion strength of untreated surfaces (264.4 ± 17.6 kPa), those of our designed surfaces have decreased by over 50 times. Icing and melting processes are investigated to reveal the easy-removal mechanisms that specifically distributed solutes and bubbles after icing impact downwards significantly to accelerate the recovery of the Cassie–Baxter state during melting. A series of environmental-related durability experiments including continuous icing & melting cycles, long-term salt spray, and high-pressure water jet impact further demonstrate the surfaces promising for real applications.

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superomniphobic surfaceseasy-removalenvironmental-related liquidsicingmelting

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 2,
February 2023
Pages 3267-3277
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-4887-2
Cite this article:
Wang L, Tian Z, Luo X, et al. Superomniphobic surfaces for easy-removals of environmental-related liquids after icing and melting. Nano Research, 2023, 16(2): 3267-3277. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4887-2
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