Noncovalent Spiropyran Coatings for Photoinduced Wettability Switching

作者:Bremer Matthias*; Reinke Ruprecht; Hesseler Britta; Taale Mohammadreza; Ingwersen Daniela; Schwarzer Stefan; Selhuber Unkel Christine; Gerken Martina
来源:Journal of Nanomaterials, 2017, 2017: 6498601.
DOI:10.1155/2017/6498601

摘要

The noncovalent binding of spiropyran to candle-soot-covered surfaces is investigated for wettability switching using a coating procedure realized with a drop casting process of using 0.001 mol/L spiropyran in a 5 : 1 toluene-acetone mixture. Scanning electron microscopy images reveal a resulting surface with spiropyran flakes in the candle soot. A reversible switching with UV light and blue or green light is achieved, starting from an initial contact angle of 130 degrees +/- 9.68 degrees. The highest contact angle difference is 41 degrees and reversibility has been shown for several switching cycles. Hence, our methods provide an easy-to-use strategy to generate surfaces with switchable wettability.