Fabrication of super-hydrophobic microchannels via strain-recovery deformations of polystyrene and oxygen reactive ion etch

Materials

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3610-3623

  Chakraborty, Anirban ^a   Xiang, Mingming ^a   Luo, Cheng ^a  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid micro nanostructures; Shape memory polymer; Super hydrophobic microchannels

Indexed keywords

INCLINED ANGLE; INNER SURFACES; MICRO-PILLARS; MICRO/NANOSTRUCTURES; SHAPE MEMORY POLYMERS; SIMPLE APPROACH; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC; TOP SURFACE;

HYDROPHOBICITY; MICROCHANNELS; OXYGEN; POLYSTYRENES; SUBSTRATES;

DEFORMATION;

EID: 84884392023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma6083610     Document Type: Article

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