Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) have potential impact on a wide range of industries, including healthcare, food packaging, and automobile. A tremendouseffort has been focused on developing novel fabrication methods for making SLIPS. However, current fabrication methods usually involve harsh conditions and complicated postfabrication modifications or are limited to specific substrates. Presented here is a novel method for the fast and facile fabrication of SLIPS. Layer-by-layer (LBL) assembly of branched polyethylenimine and Nafion, a perfluorinated polyelectrolyte, is performed with methanol as the solvent. Hierarchically rough and superhydrophobic surface is obtained directly without further modification on various substrates. The surface properties are shown to highly depend on the LBL assembly parameters, including deposition cycles, dipping time, rinsing time, and drying time between baths. The polyelectrolyte multilayers obtained with this method are infused with Krytox 100 to form SLIPS surfaces, which show excellent omniphobic, antifouling, self-cleaning, flexible, and optical properties. The result of this study not only simplifies the fabrication of SLIPS surfaces, but also provides great insight for making LBL films with specific morphologies.
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Polymers (Basel)
November 2024
Engineering Department, Campus de Arrosadía S/N, Public University of Navarre, 31006 Pamplona, Spain.
The development of superhydrophobic, waterproof, and breathable membranes, as well as icephobic surfaces, has attracted growing interest. Fluorinated polymers like PTFE or PVDF are highly effective, and previous research by the authors has shown that combining these polymers with electrospinning-induced roughness enhances their hydro- and ice-phobicity. The infusion of these electrospun mats with lubricant oil further improves their icephobic properties, achieving a slippery liquid-infused porous surface (SLIPS).
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November 2024
State Key Laboratory of High-Performance Precision Manufacturing, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China.
In recent years, slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPSs) have gained significant attention in antifouling applications. However, their slippery performance often deteriorates in dynamic environments, limiting their service life. TC4 titanium alloy, commonly used in hulls and propellers, is prone to biofouling.
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November 2024
State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China.
In recent years, slippery liquid infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) renowned for their exceptional liquid repellency and anti-fouling properties, have garnered considerable attention. However, the instability of both structural integrity and the oil film severely restricts their practical applications. This study is inspired by superwetting biological surfaces, such as fish scales, seashells, and Nepenthes, to design and fabricate a multiplex biomimetic and robust lubricant-infused textured surface (LITMS) using laser-coating composite processing technology.
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November 2024
School of Chemical Biological and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
One biomimetic approach to surface passivation involves a series of surface coatings based on the slick surfaces of carnivorous pitcher plants (Nepenthes), termed slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS). This study introduces a simplified method to produce SLIPS using a polydopamine (PDA) anchor layer, inspired by mussel adhesion. SLIPS layers were formed on cyclic olefin copolymer, silicon, and stainless steel substrates, by first growing a PDA film on each substrate.
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November 2024
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China.
The conventional slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPSs) provide relatively limited corrosion protection and self-healing performance for AZ31 Mg alloys. To this end, 8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ) was incorporated into a zirconium-based metal-organic framework UiO-66 through coordination (8-HQ@UiO-66), which was then dispersed into silicone oil to fabricate nanoparticle-enhanced-SLIPSs (8-HQ@UiO-66-SLIPSs). Especially, the influences of 8-HQ@UiO-66 concentration on the surface morphology, surface hydrophobicity, and corrosion resistance were studied.
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