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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chang, Julia J.
• Du, Chuanshen
• Pauls, Alana
• Thuo, Martin

Titel

Tunable Hydrophobicity via Dimensionally Confined Polymerization of Organometallic Adducts

Ist Teil von

• Angewandte Chemie, 2021-06, Vol.133 (25), p.14048-14055

Ort / Verlag

Weinheim: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Fabrication of tunable fine textures on solid metal surfaces often demands sophisticated reaction/processing systems. By exploiting in situ polymerization and self‐assembly of inorganic adducts derived from liquid metals (the so‐called HetMet reaction) with concomitant solidification, solid metal films with tunable texture are readily fabricated. Serving as a natural dimensional confinement, interparticle pores and capillary‐adhered thin liquid films in a pre‐packed bed of undercooled liquid metal particles lead to the expeditious surface accumulation of organometallic synthons, which readily oligomerize and self‐assemble into concentration‐dictated morphologies/patterns. Tuning particle size, particle packing (flat or textured), and reactant concentration generates diverse, autonomously organized organometallic structures on a metal particle bed. Concomitant solidification and sintering of the underlying undercooled particle bed led to a multiscale patterned solid metal surface. The process is illustrated by creating tunable features on pre‐organized metal particle beds with concomitant tunable wettability as illustrated through the so‐called petal and lotus effects. By restricting polymerization in the native pores of pre‐packed undercooled particles, organometallic adducts were autonomously generated on either flat‐ or pre‐textured particle beds. These adducts’ fine structures successfully turned the Wenzel wetting state of metal rose into the Cassie state of composite lotus.