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Wettability of porous anodic aluminium oxide membranes with three-dimensional, layered nanostructures

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The architecture-dependent wettability of three-dimensional (3D), porous anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) membranes with varying surface morphologies including hierarchical, mesh and honeycomb nanostructures is reported. The surface morphology and underlayer structure play different roles in regulating the wetting behaviour of the AAO membranes. For the mild AAO membranes, the wetting behaviour of the ultra-thin top layer is dominated by the surface morphology in which the water contact angles (WCAs) of the AAO membranes with hierarchical, mesh and honeycomb structures are approximately 113.7° ± 4.6°, 94.9° ± 0.7° and 98.8° ± 5.8°, respectively. The wetting behaviour of the 3D, layered AAO membranes is dominated by both the surface morphology and the underlayer structure. Notably, the WCA of the mild AAO membrane with a layered hierarchical structure increases in the second layer (increase in the hole density). The WCAs of the three kinds of layered hard AAO membranes decrease in the second layer (increase in the hole depth) and then decrease slowly or increase in the third transition layer (decrease in the hole density). The WCAs of all the AAO membranes decrease linearly at different rates with the formation of the ordered bottom layer. The above results can facilitate the engineering of nanostructures for controlling the surface wetting behaviour of materials and devices for applications in multiple fields.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Industry Key Technologies R&D project in Shaanxi Province of China (Program No. 2016GY-209) and the Natural Science Foundation of Department of Education of Shaanxi Province, China (Grant No. 14JK2051). Some of the SEM works were done at International Center for Dielectric Research (ICDR) of Xi’an Jiaotong University. The authors also would like to thank Ms. Dai for her help in using SEM and Mr. Ren at Instrument Analysis Center of Xi’an Jiaotong University for his assistance with SEM analysis.

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    Weiwei Zhang, Liqing Huang, Chunyan Zi, Yakun Cai, Yu Zhang, Xueyuan Zhou, Fuqiang Shang, You Liu & Gang Li

  2. Department of Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University City College, Xi’an, 710018, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Lihua Zhao

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Zhang, W., Huang, L., Zi, C. et al. Wettability of porous anodic aluminium oxide membranes with three-dimensional, layered nanostructures. J Porous Mater 25, 1707–1714 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-018-0584-5

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