Bioinspired Rose-Petal-Like Substrates Generated by Electropolymerization on Micropatterned Gold Substrates

Thierry Darmanin; Radoslaw Bombera; Pascal Colpo; Andrea Valsesia; Jean-Pierre Laugier; François Rossi; Frédéric Guittard

doi:10.1002/cplu.201600601

Bioinspired Rose-Petal-Like Substrates Generated by Electropolymerization on Micropatterned Gold Substrates

Chempluschem. 2017 Mar;82(3):336. doi: 10.1002/cplu.201600601. Epub 2017 Jan 3.

Authors

Thierry Darmanin¹, Radoslaw Bombera², Pascal Colpo², Andrea Valsesia², Jean-Pierre Laugier³, François Rossi², Frédéric Guittard¹

Affiliations

¹ Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, LPMC, UMR 7336, 06100, Nice, France.
² European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre, TP125, Via Fermi, 21027, Ispra, Italy.
³ Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Centre Commun de Microscopie Appliquée (CCMA), Parc Valrose, 06100, Nice, France.

PMID: 31962035
DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201600601

Abstract

Invited for this month's cover are the collaborating groups of Dr. Thierry Darmanin at Université Côte d'Azur, France and Dr. François Rossi at JRC European Commission, Italy. The cover picture shows a novel strategy for preparing substrates having a rose-petal effect (high water adhesion). The micropatterning specifications (pillar diameter and pitch) and the electropolymerization parameters are key to obtaining both high water apparent contact angles and a high hysteresis. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/cplu.201600387.