Superhydrophobic surfaces produced by applying a self-assembled monolayer to silicon micro/nano-textured surfaces

Nano Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 143-150

  Song, Yong ^a   Nair, Rahul Premachandran ^a   Zou, Min ^a   Wang, Yongqiang ^b  

^a 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

^b OCEAN NANOTECH LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum induced crystallization of amorphous silicon; Micro nano textured surfaces; Octadecyltrichlorosilane; Self assembled monolayer; Superhydrophobic; Wetting property

Indexed keywords

EID: 65249083974     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-009-9012-0     Document Type: Article

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