TY - JOUR
T1 - Phase-Change Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces with Thermo-Responsive Wetting and Shedding States
AU - Gulfam, Raza
AU - Orejon, Daniel
AU - Choi, Chang Hwan
AU - Zhang, Peng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2020 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2020/7/29
Y1 - 2020/7/29
N2 - Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPSs) prepared with phase invariant materials (e.g., Krytox GPL oil) have been increasingly researched as low-adhesion engineered functional surfaces in the last decade. However, phase change materials (PCMs) have been scarcely adopted, although they are potential candidates because of their inherent lubricant characteristics as well as temperature-dependent phases empowering unique thermo-responsive switchable wettability. Here, paraffin wax (an organic PCM) has been applied on a hydrophobized nanoporous copper substrate to realize the phase-change SLIPSs (PC-SLIPSs) fabricated via spin-coating followed by thermal annealing, which overcomes earlier limitations encountered on the PC-SLIPSs. Advantages of these PC-SLIPSs are the prompting of a low-adhesion Wenzel state as opposed to the earlier completely pinned Wenzel state in the solid phase and the optimized slippery state without excess of PCM in the liquid phase. Further, in order to characterize the intimate interactions between liquid droplets and the different phases of the PC-SLIPSs, that is, solid, mush, and liquid phases, the contact line dynamics have been comprehensively investigated, unveiling the water droplet adhesion and depinning phenomenon as the function of the thermo-responsive wetting states. Lastly, the PC-SLIPSs have also been tested for water vapor condensation, demonstrating the feasibility of dropwise condensation and the shift of the droplet size distribution in both the solid and liquid phases. The results suggest that such engineered surfaces have great potential to prompt and tune dropwise condensation via thermo-responsive switchable wettability for heat transfer and water harvesting applications.
AB - Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPSs) prepared with phase invariant materials (e.g., Krytox GPL oil) have been increasingly researched as low-adhesion engineered functional surfaces in the last decade. However, phase change materials (PCMs) have been scarcely adopted, although they are potential candidates because of their inherent lubricant characteristics as well as temperature-dependent phases empowering unique thermo-responsive switchable wettability. Here, paraffin wax (an organic PCM) has been applied on a hydrophobized nanoporous copper substrate to realize the phase-change SLIPSs (PC-SLIPSs) fabricated via spin-coating followed by thermal annealing, which overcomes earlier limitations encountered on the PC-SLIPSs. Advantages of these PC-SLIPSs are the prompting of a low-adhesion Wenzel state as opposed to the earlier completely pinned Wenzel state in the solid phase and the optimized slippery state without excess of PCM in the liquid phase. Further, in order to characterize the intimate interactions between liquid droplets and the different phases of the PC-SLIPSs, that is, solid, mush, and liquid phases, the contact line dynamics have been comprehensively investigated, unveiling the water droplet adhesion and depinning phenomenon as the function of the thermo-responsive wetting states. Lastly, the PC-SLIPSs have also been tested for water vapor condensation, demonstrating the feasibility of dropwise condensation and the shift of the droplet size distribution in both the solid and liquid phases. The results suggest that such engineered surfaces have great potential to prompt and tune dropwise condensation via thermo-responsive switchable wettability for heat transfer and water harvesting applications.
KW - droplet pinning
KW - dropwise condensation
KW - paraffin wax
KW - phase change materials
KW - slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces
KW - thermo-responsive wettability
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U2 - 10.1021/acsami.0c06441
DO - 10.1021/acsami.0c06441
M3 - Article
C2 - 32597163
AN - SCOPUS:85089711838
SN - 1944-8244
VL - 12
SP - 34306
EP - 34316
JO - ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
JF - ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
IS - 30
ER -