Lubricant self-replenishing slippery surface with prolonged service life for fog harvesting

Yi CHEN; Weimin LIU; Jinxia HUANG; Zhiguang GUO

doi:10.1007/s40544-021-0533-1

Friction 2022, 10(10): 1676-1692 https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-021-0533-1

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Lubricant self-replenishing slippery surface with prolonged service life for fog harvesting

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Yi CHEN^{¹^,²}, Weimin LIU^{¹^,²}(

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1 State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

3 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China

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prolonged service life, lubricant self-replenishing, slippery liquid-infused surfaces, fog harvesting

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CHEN Y, LIU W, HUANG J, et al. Lubricant self-replenishing slippery surface with prolonged service life for fog harvesting. Friction, 2022, 10(10): 1676-1692. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-021-0533-1

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Slippery lubricant-infused surfaces exhibit excellent fog-harvesting capacities compared with superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic surfaces. However, lubricant depletion is typically unavoidable under dynamic conditions, and reinfused oil is generally needed to recover the fog-harvesting capacity. Herein, an effective strategy for delaying the depletion of lubricant to prolong the service life of fog harvesting is proposed. An ultrathin transparent lubricant self-replenishing slippery surface was fabricated via facile one-step solvent evaporation polymerization. The gel film of the lubricant self-replenishing slippery surface, which was embedded with oil microdroplets, was attached to glass slides via the phase separation and evaporation of tetrahydrofuran. The gel film GFs-150 (with oil content 150 wt% of aminopropyl-terminated polydimethyl siloxane (PDMS–NH₂)) exhibited superior slippery and fog-harvesting performance to other gel films. Furthermore, the slippery surfaces with the trait of oil secretion triggered by mechanical stress exhibited better fog-harvesting capabilities and longer service life than surfaces without the function of lubricant self-replenishment. The lubricant self-replenishing, ultrathin, and transparent slippery surfaces reported herein have considerable potential for applications involving narrow spaces, visualization, long service life, etc.

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Lubricant self-replenishing slippery surface with prolonged service life for fog harvesting

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Yi CHEN^{¹^,²}, Weimin LIU^{¹^,²}(

), Jinxia HUANG^{¹^,²}(

), Zhiguang GUO^{¹^,³}(

)

1 State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China

2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

3 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for the Green Preparation and Application of Functional Materials, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China

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Keywords: prolonged service life, lubricant self-replenishing, slippery liquid-infused surfaces, fog harvesting

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Received: 31 March 2021

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Published: 04 September 2021

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51735013).

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