DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Lubricant-infused nanoparticulate coatings assembled by layer-by-layer deposition

Abstract

Omniphobic coatings are designed to repel a wide range of liquids without leaving stains on the surface. A practical coating should exhibit stable repellency, show no interference with color or transparency of the underlying substrate and, ideally, be deposited in a simple process on arbitrarily shaped surfaces. We use layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition of negatively charged silica nanoparticles and positively charged polyelectrolytes to create nanoscale surface structures that are further surface-functionalized with fluorinated silanes and infiltrated with fluorinated oil, forming a smooth, highly repellent coating on surfaces of different materials and shapes. We show that four or more LbL cycles introduce sufficient surface roughness to effectively immobilize the lubricant into the nanoporous coating and provide a stable liquid interface that repels water, low-surface-tension liquids and complex fluids. The absence of hierarchical structures and the small size of the silica nanoparticles enables complete transparency of the coating, with light transmittance exceeding that of normal glass. The coating is mechanically robust, maintains its repellency after exposure to continuous flow for several days and prevents adsorption of streptavidin as a model protein. As a result, the LbL process is conceptually simple, of low cost, environmentally benign, scalable, automatable and therefore may present an efficientmore » synthetic route to non-fouling materials.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Harvard Univ., Cambridge MA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
OSTI Identifier:
1163858
Report Number(s):
DOE-HARVARD-AR0000326-7
Journal ID: ISSN 1616-301X; DOE-HARVARD-AR0000326-7
Grant/Contract Number:  
AR0000326
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Functional Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 24; Journal Issue: 42; Journal ID: ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; colloids; layer-by-layer; nanostructures; wetting; omniphobicity

Citation Formats

Sunny, Steffi, Vogel, Nicolas, Howell, Caitlin, Vu, Thy L., and Aizenberg, Joanna. Lubricant-infused nanoparticulate coatings assembled by layer-by-layer deposition. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1002/adfm.201401289.
Sunny, Steffi, Vogel, Nicolas, Howell, Caitlin, Vu, Thy L., & Aizenberg, Joanna. Lubricant-infused nanoparticulate coatings assembled by layer-by-layer deposition. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201401289
Sunny, Steffi, Vogel, Nicolas, Howell, Caitlin, Vu, Thy L., and Aizenberg, Joanna. Mon . "Lubricant-infused nanoparticulate coatings assembled by layer-by-layer deposition". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201401289. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1163858.
@article{osti_1163858,
title = {Lubricant-infused nanoparticulate coatings assembled by layer-by-layer deposition},
author = {Sunny, Steffi and Vogel, Nicolas and Howell, Caitlin and Vu, Thy L. and Aizenberg, Joanna},
abstractNote = {Omniphobic coatings are designed to repel a wide range of liquids without leaving stains on the surface. A practical coating should exhibit stable repellency, show no interference with color or transparency of the underlying substrate and, ideally, be deposited in a simple process on arbitrarily shaped surfaces. We use layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition of negatively charged silica nanoparticles and positively charged polyelectrolytes to create nanoscale surface structures that are further surface-functionalized with fluorinated silanes and infiltrated with fluorinated oil, forming a smooth, highly repellent coating on surfaces of different materials and shapes. We show that four or more LbL cycles introduce sufficient surface roughness to effectively immobilize the lubricant into the nanoporous coating and provide a stable liquid interface that repels water, low-surface-tension liquids and complex fluids. The absence of hierarchical structures and the small size of the silica nanoparticles enables complete transparency of the coating, with light transmittance exceeding that of normal glass. The coating is mechanically robust, maintains its repellency after exposure to continuous flow for several days and prevents adsorption of streptavidin as a model protein. As a result, the LbL process is conceptually simple, of low cost, environmentally benign, scalable, automatable and therefore may present an efficient synthetic route to non-fouling materials.},
doi = {10.1002/adfm.201401289},
journal = {Advanced Functional Materials},
number = 42,
volume = 24,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 191 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Designing Superoleophobic Surfaces
journal, December 2007


Robust omniphobic surfaces
journal, November 2008

  • Tuteja, A.; Choi, W.; Mabry, J. M.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 105, Issue 47, p. 18200-18205
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804872105

Effect of Surface Wettability on the Adsorption of Proteins and Detergents
journal, April 1998

  • Sigal, George B.; Mrksich, Milan; Whitesides, George M.
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 120, Issue 14
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja970819l

Device‐Associated Infections: A Macroproblem that Starts with Microadherence
journal, November 2001

  • Darouiche, Rabih O.
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases, Vol. 33, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1086/323130

Bacterial flagella explore microscale hummocks and hollows to increase adhesion
journal, March 2013

  • Friedlander, R. S.; Vlamakis, H.; Kim, P.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 110, Issue 14
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219662110

Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfaces
journal, April 1997


Super-Hydrophobic Surfaces: From Natural to Artificial
journal, December 2002


Non-sticking drops
journal, September 2005


Design and Creation of Superwetting/Antiwetting Surfaces
journal, December 2006


Natural and biomimetic artificial surfaces for superhydrophobicity, self-cleaning, low adhesion, and drag reduction
journal, January 2011


Candle Soot as a Template for a Transparent Robust Superamphiphobic Coating
journal, December 2011


Metastable Underwater Superhydrophobicity
journal, October 2010

  • Poetes, Rosa; Holtzmann, Kathrin; Franze, Kristian
  • Physical Review Letters, Vol. 105, Issue 16, Article No. 166104
  • DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.166104

Superhydrophobic Tracks for Low-Friction, Guided Transport of Water Droplets
journal, April 2011

  • Mertaniemi, Henrikki; Jokinen, Ville; Sainiemi, Lauri
  • Advanced Materials, Vol. 23, Issue 26
  • DOI: 10.1002/adma.201100461

Switchable Static and Dynamic Self-Assembly of Magnetic Droplets on Superhydrophobic Surfaces
journal, July 2013


Transparent Superhydrophobic Films Based on Silica Nanoparticles
journal, June 2007

  • Bravo, Javier; Zhai, Lei; Wu, Zhizhong
  • Langmuir, Vol. 23, Issue 13
  • DOI: 10.1021/la070159q

Stable Superhydrophobic Coatings from Polyelectrolyte Multilayers
journal, July 2004

  • Zhai, Lei; Cebeci, Fevzi Ç.; Cohen, Robert E.
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 4, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl049463j

All-Nanoparticle Thin-Film Coatings
journal, October 2006

  • Lee, Daeyeon; Rubner, Michael F.; Cohen, Robert E.
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 6, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl061776m

Fuzzy Nanoassemblies: Toward Layered Polymeric Multicomposites
journal, August 1997


Nanoengineering of Particle Surfaces
journal, January 2001


Form and Function in Multilayer Assembly: New Applications at the Nanoscale
journal, August 2004


Biomedical Applications of Layer-by-Layer Assembly: From Biomimetics to Tissue Engineering
journal, December 2006


Layer-by-layer assembly as a versatile bottom-up nanofabrication technique for exploratory research and realistic application
journal, January 2007

  • Ariga, Katsuhiko; Hill, Jonathan P.; Ji, Qingmin
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 9, Issue 19
  • DOI: 10.1039/b700410a

Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Nanowires for Three-Dimensional, Multifunctional Electronics
journal, March 2007

  • Javey, Ali; Friedman, Robin S.
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl063056l

Template Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials via Layer-by-Layer Assembly
journal, February 2008

  • Wang, Yajun; Angelatos, Alexandra S.; Caruso, Frank
  • Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 20, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1021/cm7024813

Building biomedical materials layer-by-layer
journal, May 2012


The architecture and biological performance of drug-loaded LbL nanoparticles
journal, July 2013


Spray-Layer-by-Layer Carbon Nanotube/Electrospun Fiber Electrodes for Flexible Chemiresistive Sensor Applications
journal, September 2013

  • Saetia, Kittipong; Schnorr, Jan M.; Mannarino, Matthew M.
  • Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 24, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201302344

Bioinspired self-repairing slippery surfaces with pressure-stable omniphobicity
journal, September 2011

  • Wong, Tak-Sing; Kang, Sung Hoon; Tang, Sindy K. Y.
  • Nature, Vol. 477, Issue 7365, p. 443-447
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature10447

Liquid-infused structured surfaces with exceptional anti-biofouling performance
journal, July 2012

  • Epstein, A. K.; Wong, T. -S.; Belisle, R. A.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 109, Issue 33
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201973109

Hydrophobic Liquid-Infused Porous Polymer Surfaces for Antibacterial Applications
journal, July 2013

  • Li, Junsheng; Kleintschek, Tanja; Rieder, Annika
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 5, Issue 14
  • DOI: 10.1021/am401532z

Liquid-Infused Nanostructured Surfaces with Extreme Anti-Ice and Anti-Frost Performance
journal, June 2012

  • Kim, Philseok; Wong, Tak-Sing; Alvarenga, Jack
  • ACS Nano, Vol. 6, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1021/nn302310q

Mechanism of Frost Formation on Lubricant-Impregnated Surfaces
journal, April 2013

  • Rykaczewski, Konrad; Anand, Sushant; Subramanyam, Srinivas Bengaluru
  • Langmuir, Vol. 29, Issue 17, p. 5230-5238
  • DOI: 10.1021/la400801s

Robust Prototypical Anti-icing Coatings with a Self-lubricating Liquid Water Layer between Ice and Substrate
journal, May 2013

  • Chen, Jing; Dou, Renmei; Cui, Dapeng
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 5, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1021/am401004t

Adaptive fluid-infused porous films with tunable transparency and wettability
journal, April 2013

  • Yao, Xi; Hu, Yuhang; Grinthal, Alison
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 12, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat3598

Nanochromatography Driven by the Coffee Ring Effect
journal, March 2011

  • Wong, Tak-Sing; Chen, Ting-Hsuan; Shen, Xiaoying
  • Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 83, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1021/ac102963x

Lubricant-infused micro/nano-structured surfaces with tunable dynamic omniphobicity at high temperatures
journal, June 2013

  • Daniel, Daniel; Mankin, Max N.; Belisle, Rebecca A.
  • Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 102, Issue 23
  • DOI: 10.1063/1.4810907

Enhanced Condensation on Lubricant-Impregnated Nanotextured Surfaces
journal, October 2012

  • Anand, Sushant; Paxson, Adam T.; Dhiman, Rajeev
  • ACS Nano, Vol. 6, Issue 11, p. 10122-10129
  • DOI: 10.1021/nn303867y

Immersion Condensation on Oil-Infused Heterogeneous Surfaces for Enhanced Heat Transfer
journal, June 2013

  • Xiao, Rong; Miljkovic, Nenad; Enright, Ryan
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 3, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/srep01988

Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces Showing Marine Antibiofouling Properties
journal, October 2013

  • Xiao, Linlin; Li, Junsheng; Mieszkin, Sophie
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 5, Issue 20
  • DOI: 10.1021/am402635p

Hierarchical or Not? Effect of the Length Scale and Hierarchy of the Surface Roughness on Omniphobicity of Lubricant-Infused Substrates
journal, March 2013

  • Kim, Philseok; Kreder, Michael J.; Alvarenga, Jack
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 13, Issue 4, p. 1793-1799
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl4003969

Perfluoropolyether-infused nano-texture: a versatile approach to omniphobic coatings with low hysteresis and high transparency
journal, January 2013

  • Ma, Wei; Higaki, Yuji; Otsuka, Hideyuki
  • Chem. Commun., Vol. 49, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1039/C2CC37576A

Gold peroxide complexes and the conversion of hydroperoxides into gold hydrides by successive oxygen-transfer reactions
journal, July 2013

  • Roşca, Dragoş-Adrian; Wright, Joseph A.; Hughes, David L.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 4, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3167

Resistance Of Solid Surfaces To Wetting By Water
journal, August 1936

  • Wenzel, Robert N.
  • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, Vol. 28, Issue 8, p. 988-994
  • DOI: 10.1021/ie50320a024

Wettability of porous surfaces
journal, January 1944

  • Cassie, A. B. D.; Baxter, S.
  • Transactions of the Faraday Society, Vol. 40, p. 546-551
  • DOI: 10.1039/tf9444000546

Omniphobic Slippery Coatings Based on Lubricant-Infused Porous Polyelectrolyte Multilayers
journal, August 2013

  • Huang, Xiayun; Chrisman, James D.; Zacharia, Nicole S.
  • ACS Macro Letters, Vol. 2, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1021/mz400387w

Nanoprotective Layer-by-Layer Coatings with Epoxy Components for Enhancing Abrasion Resistance: Toward Robust Multimaterial Nanoscale Films
journal, September 2013

  • Qureshi, Shahid Saeed; Zheng, Zhiqiang; Sarwar, Muhammad Ilyas
  • ACS Nano, Vol. 7, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1021/nn4040298

Alternately Assembled Ultrathin Film of Silica Nanoparticles and Linear Polycations
journal, February 1997

  • Ariga, Katsuhiko; Lvov, Yuri; Onda, Mitsuhiko
  • Chemistry Letters, Vol. 26, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1246/cl.1997.125

Hydrothermal Treatment of Nanoparticle Thin Films for Enhanced Mechanical Durability
journal, March 2008

  • Gemici, Zekeriyya; Shimomura, Hiroomi; Cohen, Robert E.
  • Langmuir, Vol. 24, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1021/la703074r

Verwendung von Schwingquarzen zur W�gung d�nner Schichten und zur Mikrow�gung
journal, April 1959


Layer-by-Layer-Assembled High-Performance Broadband Antireflection Coatings
journal, February 2010

  • Shimomura, Hiroomi; Gemici, Zekeriyya; Cohen, Robert E.
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 2, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1021/am900883f

Facile Method to Fabricate Raspberry-like Particulate Films for Superhydrophobic Surfaces
journal, December 2007


Works referencing / citing this record:

Corrosion-Resistant Superhydrophobic Coatings on Mg Alloy Surfaces Inspired by Lotus Seedpod
journal, January 2017

  • Zang, Dongmian; Zhu, Ruiwen; Zhang, Wen
  • Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 27, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201605446

Oil-Impregnated Nanoporous Oxide Layer for Corrosion Protection with Self-Healing
journal, February 2017

  • Lee, Junghoon; Shin, Sangwoo; Jiang, Youhua
  • Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 27, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201606040

Lubricant-Infused Anisotropic Porous Surface Design of Reduced Graphene Oxide Toward Electrically Driven Smart Control of Conductive Droplets' Motion
journal, April 2017

  • Che, Pengda; Heng, Liping; Jiang, Lei
  • Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 27, Issue 22
  • DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201606199

Bioinspired Superwettability Micro/Nanoarchitectures: Fabrications and Applications
journal, January 2019

  • Kong, Tiantian; Luo, Guanyi; Zhao, Yuanjin
  • Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 11
  • DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201808012

External Stimuli Responsive Liquid‐Infused Surfaces Switching between Slippery and Nonslippery States: Fabrications and Applications
journal, January 2020

  • Lou, Xiaoding; Huang, Yu; Yang, Xian
  • Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 30, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201901130

Designing Liquid‐Infused Surfaces for Medical Applications: A Review
journal, August 2018

  • Howell, Caitlin; Grinthal, Alison; Sunny, Steffi
  • Advanced Materials, Vol. 30, Issue 50
  • DOI: 10.1002/adma.201802724

Bio-Inspired Superhydrophobic and Omniphobic Wood Surfaces
journal, November 2016

  • Guo, Huizhang; Fuchs, Peter; Casdorff, Kirstin
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces, Vol. 4, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1002/admi.201600289

Conductive Electrochemically Active Lubricant-Infused Nanostructured Surfaces Attenuate Coagulation and Enable Friction-Less Droplet Manipulation
journal, July 2018

  • Hosseini, Amin; Villegas, Martin; Yang, Jie
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces, Vol. 5, Issue 18
  • DOI: 10.1002/admi.201800617

Self‐Supplying Liquidity Oil‐Adsorbed Slippery Smooth Surface for Both Liquid and Solid Repellency
journal, December 2019

  • Manabe, Kengo; Nakano, Miki; Hibi, Yuko
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces, Vol. 7, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1002/admi.201901818

Emerging Applications of Bioinspired Slippery Surfaces in Biomedical Fields
journal, July 2018

  • He, Wenqing; Liu, Peng; Zhang, Jianqiang
  • Chemistry - A European Journal, Vol. 24, Issue 56
  • DOI: 10.1002/chem.201801368

Biomimetic Self‐Cleaning Anisotropic Solid Slippery Surface with Excellent Stability and Restoration
journal, March 2019


Recent Development of Durable and Self-Healing Surfaces with Special Wettability
journal, February 2016

  • Chen, Kunlin; Wu, Yi; Zhou, Shuxue
  • Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Vol. 37, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1002/marc.201500591

Facile preparation of superhydrophobic and oleophobic surfaces via the combination of Cu(0)-mediated reversible-deactivation radical polymerization and click chemistry
journal, June 2018

  • Enayati, Mojtaba; Abbaspourrad, Alireza
  • Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, Vol. 56, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1002/pola.29049

Effect of the texture geometry on the slippery behavior of liquid-infused nanoporous surfaces
journal, October 2018


Design of anti-icing surfaces: smooth, textured or slippery?
journal, January 2016

  • Kreder, Michael J.; Alvarenga, Jack; Kim, Philseok
  • Nature Reviews Materials, Vol. 1, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/natrevmats.2015.3

Oil-Impregnated Hydrocarbon-Based Polymer Films
journal, August 2018


A New Method for Intense Cavitation Bubble Generation on Layer-by-Layer Assembled SLIPS
journal, August 2019


Double-sided slippery liquid-infused porous materials using conformable mesh
journal, September 2019


A colloidoscope of colloid-based porous materials and their uses
journal, January 2016

  • Phillips, Katherine R.; England, Grant T.; Sunny, Steffi
  • Chemical Society Reviews, Vol. 45, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1039/c5cs00533g

Slippery liquid-infused substrates: a versatile preparation, unique anti-wetting and drag-reduction effect on water
journal, January 2016

  • Wang, Yang; Zhang, Haifeng; Liu, Xiaowei
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 4, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1039/c5ta09936f

Bio-inspired photonic crystals with superwettability
journal, January 2016

  • Kuang, Minxuan; Wang, Jingxia; Jiang, Lei
  • Chemical Society Reviews, Vol. 45, Issue 24
  • DOI: 10.1039/c6cs00562d

Drop impact dynamics on slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces: influence of oil thickness
journal, January 2018

  • Muschi, M.; Brudieu, B.; Teisseire, J.
  • Soft Matter, Vol. 14, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1039/c7sm02026k

Recent advances of bioinspired functional materials with specific wettability: from nature and beyond nature
journal, January 2019


Biomimetic self-slippery and transferable transparent lubricant-infused functional surfaces
journal, January 2018


A stable solid slippery surface with thermally assisted self-healing ability
journal, January 2018

  • Meng, Xiangfu; Wang, Zubin; Wang, Lili
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 6, Issue 34
  • DOI: 10.1039/c8ta05886e

Sustained delivery of growth factors with high loading efficiency in a layer by layer assembly
journal, January 2020

  • Damanik, Febriyani F. R.; Brunelli, Marzia; Pastorino, Laura
  • Biomaterials Science, Vol. 8, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9bm00979e

Endowing recyclability to anti-adhesion materials via designing physically crosslinked polyurethane
journal, January 2019

  • Liu, Minhuan; Yu, Danfeng; Xu, Xiubin
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 7, Issue 40
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9ta07675a

Fast self-replenishing slippery surfaces with a 3D fibrous porous network for the healing of surface properties
journal, January 2019

  • Yan, Minglong; Zhang, Chunhong; Chen, Rongrong
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol. 7, Issue 43
  • DOI: 10.1039/c9ta08133j

Preventing mussel adhesion using lubricant-infused materials
journal, August 2017


Immobilized liquid layers: A new approach to anti-adhesion surfaces for medical applications
journal, March 2016

  • Sotiri, Irini; Overton, Jonathan C.; Waterhouse, Anna
  • Experimental Biology and Medicine, Vol. 241, Issue 9
  • DOI: 10.1177/1535370216640942

Double-sided slippery liquid-infused porous materials using conformable mesh
journal, September 2019