Large-Area Fabrication of LIPSS for Wetting Control Using Multi-Parallel Femtosecond Laser Processing.

Materials (Basel)

Department of Laser Technologies (LTS), Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC), Savanorių Ave. 231, LT-02300 Vilnius, Lithuania.

Published: August 2022

In this research, the wetting property control of a stainless-steel surface, structured using parallel processing via an array of 64-femtosecond laser beams, is presented. The scanning of an 8 × 8-beam array over the sample was used to uniformly cover the large areas with LIPSS. The static water contact angle and the LIPSS period dependence on processing parameters were investigated. The wettability control of water droplets on laser-patterned stainless steel, ranging from contact angles of ~63°, similar to those of the plain surface, to the superhydrophobic surface with contact angles > 150°, was achieved. The relationship between the static water contact angle and the LIPSS parameters in the Fourier plane was investigated.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9412567PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15165534DOI Listing

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