Enhancing Photoswitchable Wetting Properties of Hydrophobic Porous Spiropyran Copolymer Surfaces Through Surface Roughness Engineering (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 34/2024)
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Photoswitchable Wettability The spiropyran-containing porous surfaces with a certain roughness range demonstrate a photoswitchable wetting properties upon UV exposure due to the ring-opening reaction of spiropyran resulting in a higher dipole moment. Condensate droplets on UV-switched regions coalesce faster, lower number of droplets as well as larger merged droplets form on the surface as the surface is less hydrophobic. More details can be found in article 2400396 by Dorothea Helmer and co-workers.
Source: Advanced Materials Interfaces
Institution: University of Freiburg
Language: English
Subfield: Surfaces, Coatings and Films
Field: Materials Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,100
OpenAlex ID: W4404930058