Multifunctional wettability patterns prepared by laser processing on superhydrophobic TiO2 nanostructured surfaces

J Mater Chem B. 2015 Jan 21;3(3):342-347. doi: 10.1039/c4tb01814a. Epub 2014 Nov 26.

Abstract

A novel femtosecond laser patterning technique is reported to construct a three-dimensional (3D) wettability pattern on a superhydrophobic TiO2 nanotube array (TNA) surface in one-step. A 3D binary TNA pattern with extremely high contrast for microfluidic manipulators and biomedical scaffolds is used to guide droplet transportation and human mesenchymal stem cell site-selective growth, respectively.