Enhancing Photoswitchable Wetting Properties of Hydrophobic Porous Spiropyran Copolymer Surfaces Through Surface Roughness Engineering (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 34/2024)
Photoswitchable Wettability The spiropyran-containing porous surfaces with a certain roughness range demonstrate a photoswitchable wetting properties upon UV exposure due to the ring-opening reaction of spiropyran resulting in a higher dipole moment. Condensate droplets on UV-switched regions coalesce faster, lower number of droplets as well as larger merged droplets form on the surface as the surface is less hydrophobic. More details can be found in article 2400396 by Dorothea Helmer and co-workers.
Authors
- Ralf Thomann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3597-6965)
- Fadoua Mayoussi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5073-8319)
- Niloofar Nekoonam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8520-3861)
- Dorothea Helmer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0295-9701)
- Pang Zhu
- Ramin Montazeri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2251-7126)
- Leonhard Hambitzer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7032-9918)
- F. Dreher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7682-7536)
- Sagar Bhagwat (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9295-0606)
Institutions
- University of Freiburg (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advanced Materials Interfaces
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202470084
- Primary Topic
- Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00