Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (12): 2621.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20180493

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Reversible Control of Under-oil Superhydrophobicity to Superhydrophilicity on TiO2 Nanostructured Thin Film

KANG Hongjun1, YU Xiaoyan1, LAI Hua1, CHENG Zhongjun2,*(), LIU Yuyan1,*()   

  1. 1. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Key Laboratory of Critical Materials Technology for New Energy Conversion and Storge, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
    2. Academy of Fundamental and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
  • Received:2018-07-11 Online:2018-12-03 Published:2018-10-22
  • Contact: CHENG Zhongjun,LIU Yuyan E-mail:chengzhongjun@iccas.ac.cn;liuyy@hit.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    † Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.21674030, 51573035).

Abstract:

A TiO2 nanostructured thin film was prepared by a simple pull-out coating method. The as-prepared TiO2 nanostructured thin film shows under-oil superhydrophobicity with water contact angle(WCA) of 160°. Upon UV irradiation for 60 min with humidity of 20% in air, TiO2 nanostructured thin film can switch from under-oil superhydrophobicity to superhydrophilicity. When the UV-irradiated TiO2 nanostructured thin film was heated at 100 ℃ for 70 min, the thin film can restore initial under-oil superhydrophobic state. The results indicate the reversible control of under-oil superhydrophobicity to superhydrophilicity on TiO2 nanostructured thin film can be realized by alternation of UV irradiation and heating process. The reversible control of under-oil water super-wetting on TiO2 nanostructured thin film can be ascribed to the cooperative effect between the surface nanostructure and the chemical composition variation.

Key words: TiO2 nanostructured thin film, Under-oil superhydrophobicity, Under-oil superhydrophilicity, Reversible control

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