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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

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  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:
Journal Article: 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. 2014. "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},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1163858}, journal = {Advanced Functional Materials},
issn = {1616-301X},
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}
}

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