AVS 54th International Symposium
    Surface Science Thursday Sessions
       Session SS-ThP

Paper SS-ThP20
Solid-Liquid Interface Engineering: Static and Dynamic Hydrophobicities on Self-assembled Monolayer Surfaces

Thursday, October 18, 2007, 5:30 pm, Room 4C

Session: Surface Science Poster Session
Presenter: N. Yoshida, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Authors: N. Yoshida, The University of Tokyo, Japan
S. Suzuki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
M. Sakai, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, Japan
A. Hashimoto, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology, Japan
Y. Kameshima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
A. Nakajima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
T. Watanabe, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Wettability of solid surface has attracted much attention in many fields, from basic surface science to practical uses. Up to now, numerous studies have sought to interpret the static hydrophobicity (contact angle of a droplet and surface energy/surface tention of soild surface) in terms of the interaction between liquid and solid surface. The static hydrophobicity has been well-clarified (controlled by surface energy and morphology), however, the dynamic hydrophobicity (sliding angle and velocity of a droplet), a measure of dynamic adhesive property against water, is still in controversy. Practically, dynamic hydrophobicity does not simply depend on static hydrophobicity. Thus far, no one could completely explain a fact that hydrophobic surfaces of similar water contact angles often show quite different adhesive property against water. In this study, we successfully prepared various hydrophobic surfaces using alkyl and fluoroalkyl silanes with various adhesive properties against water in terms of solid-liquid interface engineering. We will demonstrate that the dynamic hydrophobicity, a measure of the adhesive property against water, depended on the surface morphology (even of the order of a few nanometers) and surface composition (small amount of polar groups on the surface) and that we could control it independent of static hydrophobicity.