Fabrication of ordered honeycomb amphiphobic films with extremely low fluorine content

Fei Gao; Wei Wang; Xinxin Li; Lei Li; Jiaping Lin; Shaoliang Lin

doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2016.01.035

Fabrication of ordered honeycomb amphiphobic films with extremely low fluorine content

J Colloid Interface Sci. 2016 Apr 15:468:70-77. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2016.01.035. Epub 2016 Jan 18.

Authors

Fei Gao¹, Wei Wang¹, Xinxin Li², Lei Li³, Jiaping Lin¹, Shaoliang Lin⁴

Affiliations

¹ Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advance Polymeric Materials, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 200237 Shanghai, China.
² Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advance Polymeric Materials, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 200237 Shanghai, China. Electronic address: xinxinli@ecust.edu.cn.
³ College of Materials, Xiamen University, 361005 Xiamen, China.
⁴ Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advance Polymeric Materials, Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 200237 Shanghai, China. Electronic address: slin@ecust.edu.cn.

PMID: 26828276
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2016.01.035

Abstract

A series of poly(methyl methacrylate)-block-poly(perfluoroalkyl ethyl acrylate) (PMMA-b-PFAEA) with various fluorine content were employed to fabricate honeycomb ordered films via breath figure strategy. The influences of temperature, concentration, relative humidity, fluorine content on the morphology of porous films were investigated. Wetting behavior including hydrophobic property and wetting state of the films was studied. High surface roughness from the porous structure and low surface free energy from the increasing PFAEA fraction led to the enhancement of hydrophobicity. Additionally, fabrication of porous films by the mixture of PMMA and PMMA-b-PFAEA was investigated. Ordered porous film with excellent hydrophobicity and oleophobicity was obtained with only 7 wt% of PMMA-b-PFAEA by simultaneous processes of breath figure mechanism and phase separation. This work facilitates our further comprehension of the mechanism of breath figure and contributes to the fabrication of porous film from fluorinated copolymers. Meanwhile, it opens a new route to prepare films possessing excellent hydrophobicity and oleophobicity with extremely low fluorine content.

Keywords: Amphiphobic; Breath figure; Fluorinated polymer.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't