Synthetic Butterfly Scale Surfaces with Compliance‐Tailored Anisotropic Drop Adhesion

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Many natural surfaces such as butterfly wings, beetles' backs, and rice leaves exhibit anisotropic liquid adhesion; this is of fundamental interest and is important to applications including self-cleaning surfaces, microfluidics, and phase change energy conversion. Researchers have sought to mimic the anisotropic adhesion of butterfly wings using rigid surface textures, though natural butterfly scales are sufficiently compliant to be deflected by capillary forces exerted by drops. Here, inspired by the flexible scales of the Morpho aega butterfly wing, synthetic surfaces coated with flexible carbon nanotube (CNT) microscales with anisotropic drop adhesion properties are fabricated. The curved CNT scales are fabricated by a strain-engineered chemical vapor deposition technique, giving approximate to 5000 scales of approximate to 10 mu m thickness in a 1 cm(2) area. Using various designed CNT scale arrays, it is demonstrated that the anisotropy of drop roll-off angle is influenced by the geometry, compliance, and hydrophobicity of the scales; and a maximum roll-off anisotropy of 6.2 degrees is achieved. These findings are supported by a model that relates the adhesion anisotropy to the scale geometry, compliance, and wettability. The electrical conductivity and mechanical robustness of the CNTs, and the ability to fabricate complex multidirectional patterns, suggest further opportunities to create engineered synthetic scale surfaces.
Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
Issue Date
2019-04
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Citation

ADVANCED MATERIALS, v.31, no.14, pp.1807686

ISSN
0935-9648
DOI
10.1002/adma.201807686
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/262003
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ME-Journal Papers(저널논문)
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