Filled nanoporous surfaces: Controlled formation and wettability
Langmuir, ISSN: 0743-7463, Vol: 25, Issue: 20, Page: 12374-12379
2009
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- Citations11
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- 11
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- Captures17
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- 17
Article Description
The controlled filling of hydrophobic nanoporous surfaces with hydrophilicmolecules and their wetting properties are described and demonstrated by using thiocholesterol (TC) self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on gold and mercaptoundecanoic acid (MUA) as the filling agent. A novel procedure was developed for filling the nanopores in the TC SAMs by immersing them into a "cocktail" solution of TC and MUA, with TC in huge excess. This procedure results in an increasing coverage ofMUA with increasing immersion time up to an area fraction of ~23%, while the amount of TC remains almost constant. Our findings strongly support earlier observations where linear ?-substituted alkanethiols selectively fill defects (nanopores) in the TC SAM (Yang et al. Langmuir 1997, 12, 1704-1707). They also support the formation of a homogeneouslymixed SAM, given by the distribution of TC on the gold surface, rather than of a phase-segregated overlayer structure with domains of varying size, shape, and composition. The wetting properties of the filled SAMs were investigated by measuring the most stable contact angle as well as contact angle hysteresis. It is shown that the most stable contact angle is very well described by the Cassie equation, since the drops aremuch larger than the scale of chemical heterogeneity of the SAMsurfaces. In addition, it is demonstrated that contact angle hysteresis is sensitive to the chemical heterogeneity of the surface, even at the nanometric scale. © 2009 American Chemical Society.
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