Underwater Mechanically Robust Oil-Repellent Materials: Combining Conflicting Properties Using a Heterostructure

作者：Meng, Xiangfu; Wang, Miaomiao; Heng, Liping^*; Jiang, Lei

来源：Advanced Materials, 2018, 30(11): 1706634.

DOI：10.1002/adma.201706634

• heterostructures
• layer structures
• low adhesion
• underwater mechanical stability
• underwater superoleophobicity

The development of underwater mechanically robust oil-repellent materials is important due to the high demand for these materials with the increase in underwater activities. Based on the previous study, a new strategy is demonstrated to prepare underwater mechanically robust oil-repellent materials by combining conflicting properties using a heterostructure, which has a layered hydrophobic interior structure with a columnar hierarchical micro/nanostructure on the surface and a hydrophilic outer structure. The surface hydrophilic layer imparts underwater superoleophobicity and low oil adhesion to the material, which has oil contact angle of larger than 150 degrees and adhesion of lower than 2.8 mu N. The stability of the mechanical properties stemming from the interior hydrophobic-layered structure enables the material to withstand high weight loads underwater. The tensile stress and the hardness of such a heterostructure film after 1 month immersion in seawater and pH -solution are in the range from 83.92 +/- 8.22 to 86.73 +/- 7.8 MPa and from 83.88 +/- 6.8 to 86.82 +/- 5.64 MPa, respectively, which are superior to any underwater-oil-repellent material currently reported.

• 出版日期2018-3-15
• 单位北京航空航天大学; 首都师范大学