Superhydrophobic stainless steel surface by two-step NS laser processing

0567482 - FZÚ 2023 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Hauschwitz, Petr - Bičišťová, Radka - Radhakrishnan, Jagdheesh - Brajer, Jan - Rostohar, Danijela
Superhydrophobic stainless steel surface by two-step NS laser processing.
MM Science Journal. Roč. 2019, Dec (2019), s. 3647-3651. ISSN 1803-1269
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LO1602; GA MŠMT LM2015086; GA MŠMT EF15_006/0000674
EU Projects: European Commission(XE) 739573 - HiLASE CoE
Grant - others:OP VVV - HiLASE-CoE(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_006/0000674
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : Laser micromachining * superhydrophobicity * functional surfaces * stainless steel
OECD category: Optics (including laser optics and quantum optics)
Method of publishing: Open access

Growing demand for superhydrophobic surfaces in recent years is associated to many attractive science and engineering applications including self-cleaning, anti-icing and anti-corrosive behaviours. Stainless steel type AISI 316L is one of the most versatile and widely used engineering material in industries. Inspired by the “lotus effect” nano/microstructures has been fabricated by direct laser writing method with nanosecond laser source using two ablation regimes. Primarily, microstructures were fabricated with a tightly focused beam and covered by nano-scale structures by defocused laser beam in the second fabrication step. However, freshly prepared laser patterned metal surface shows hydrophilic behaviour. The hydrophilic to superhydrophobic transformation takes several days or weeks by aging technique in atmospheric condition. In this study, the transition time has been drastically reduced by high vacuum processing technique.
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