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From natural lotus leaf to highly hard-flexible diamond-like carbon surface with superhydrophobic and good tribological performance

From natural lotus leaf to highly hard-flexible diamond-like carbon surface with superhydrophobic and good tribological performance
From natural lotus leaf to highly hard-flexible diamond-like carbon surface with superhydrophobic and good tribological performance
Fabrication of hard-flexible and superhydrophobic carbon films is considered as a challenging issue for expanding the applications of diamond-like carbon (DLC) films. In this paper, a novel method for fabricating highly hard, flexible and superhydrophobic DLC films with bio-mimicking micro textures using natural lotus leaf as templates is reported. By combining nanocasting, electroplating methods and finally physical vapor deposition, DLC films with “lotus leaf”-like textures were successfully fabricated, which exhibited good balance of high hardness (approximately 21 GPa) and toughness as well as excellent superhydrophobicity with contact angle up to 160°. Furthermore, the as-prepared superhydrophobic DLC films could remain as an effect lubricant layer. Combination of excellent physical and mechanical properties of highly hard, superhydrophobic as well as flexible DLC films with bio-mimicking textures will be beneficial for their potential applications as engineering material
hard-flexible, superhydrophobic, bio-mimicking, DLC
0257-8972
2258-2264
Wang, Ying
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Wang, Liping
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Wang, Shuncai C.
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Wood, Robert J.K.
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Xue, Qunji
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Wang, Ying
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Wang, Liping
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Wang, Shuncai C.
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Wood, Robert J.K.
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Xue, Qunji
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Wang, Ying, Wang, Liping, Wang, Shuncai C., Wood, Robert J.K. and Xue, Qunji (2012) From natural lotus leaf to highly hard-flexible diamond-like carbon surface with superhydrophobic and good tribological performance. Surface and Coatings Technology, 206 (2258), 2258-2264. (doi:10.1016/j.surfcoat.2011.10.001).

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Abstract

Fabrication of hard-flexible and superhydrophobic carbon films is considered as a challenging issue for expanding the applications of diamond-like carbon (DLC) films. In this paper, a novel method for fabricating highly hard, flexible and superhydrophobic DLC films with bio-mimicking micro textures using natural lotus leaf as templates is reported. By combining nanocasting, electroplating methods and finally physical vapor deposition, DLC films with “lotus leaf”-like textures were successfully fabricated, which exhibited good balance of high hardness (approximately 21 GPa) and toughness as well as excellent superhydrophobicity with contact angle up to 160°. Furthermore, the as-prepared superhydrophobic DLC films could remain as an effect lubricant layer. Combination of excellent physical and mechanical properties of highly hard, superhydrophobic as well as flexible DLC films with bio-mimicking textures will be beneficial for their potential applications as engineering material

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e-pub ahead of print date: 8 October 2011
Published date: 15 January 2012
Keywords: hard-flexible, superhydrophobic, bio-mimicking, DLC
Organisations: nCATS Group

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Local EPrints ID: 300900
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/300900
ISSN: 0257-8972
PURE UUID: 3c07599b-58eb-42d1-82e7-59d4ec6e25f6
ORCID for Robert J.K. Wood: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0681-9239

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Date deposited: 01 Mar 2012 11:35
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:47

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Author: Ying Wang
Author: Liping Wang
Author: Shuncai C. Wang
Author: Qunji Xue

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