Liquid-infused microgrooved slippery surface ablated by one-step laser irradiation for underwater bubble directional manipulation and anisotropic spreading

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Abstract

A pitcher plant is a kind of liquid-infused porous surface that imparts an excellent directional manipulation ability to in-air droplets or underwater bubbles, so it has attracted researchers’ attention in both academic and industrial issues. In this work, a kind of liquid-infused anisotropic microgrooved slippery surface (LIAMSS) was fabricated through one-step femtosecond laser irradiation and lubricant coating technology. On the inclined LIAMSS, the underwater bubbles show great directional motion and anisotropic spreading ability under the effect of buoyancy. It should be noted that the interaction between the air and the lubricant layer plays a dominant role in determining the attachment and the movement of the underwater bubble, which could be ascribed to the competition between the adhesion resistance induced by contact angle hysteresis and the drive force induced by buoyancy. Additionally, the bubble shows obvious anisotropy on the LIAMSS with the increase in volume because of the restriction of the slippery area, and the bubble contact angle perpendicular to the grooved region is about 88° when the bubble volume is 5 µL. We believe that the present findings would accelerate the application of this kind of bubble slippery surface in underwater gas collection and tail gas treatment.

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Liu, W., Chen, X., & Jiao, Y. (2021). Liquid-infused microgrooved slippery surface ablated by one-step laser irradiation for underwater bubble directional manipulation and anisotropic spreading. Micromachines, 12(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12050555

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