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Investigation of Roughness Periodicity on the Hydrophobic Properties of Surfaces*

Jeremiah Toster A and David Lewis A B
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A Centre for NanoScale Science and Technology, Flinders University of South Australia, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia.

B Corresponding author. Email: david.lewis@flinders.edu.au

Australian Journal of Chemistry 68(8) 1228-1232 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH15310
Submitted: 29 May 2015  Accepted: 22 June 2015   Published: 16 July 2015

Abstract

Hydrophobic films were synthesized with a variety of silica particle sizes ranging from 58 to 1428 nm to investigate the effect of particle size on the contact and sliding angles. While the surface roughness created by varying the particle size did not appear to affect water contact angles, the sliding angles showed a significant monotonic decrease, reducing from 90° to 20°.


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