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Surfaces displaying high hydrophobicity and strong water adhesion by soft-template electropolymerization using di-substituted benzenes as model

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Preparing well-ordered nanotubes on material surface is fundamental for a huge number of applications. Natural surfaces and theoretical approaches show that porous structures such as nanotubes are key parameters for both surface hydrophobicity and water adhesion. Here, a very easy soft-template electropolymerization approach is used to form nanotubes. A solvent of low water-solubility (dichloromethane) is mixed to water in the presence of a surfactant electrolyte for stabilizing the micelles formed in solution. The monomers investigated are thiophene and carbazole derivatives, and are all fully conjugated for favoring the deposition versus polymerization. Indeed, in all the electrodeposited films, the monomer is mostly present as confirmed by cyclic voltammetry. The key parameters in the resulting nanotubes is the monomer structure because a preferential growth is necessary and this one is induced here especially by π-stacking interactions in the direction perpendicular to monomer. The surfaces composed of nanoparticles or nanotubes are the most hydrophobic with an apparent contact angle up to 130.9° accompanied with strong water adhesion, as reported on gecko foot or rose petal.

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Acknowledgements

The group thanks Christelle Boscagli from the Centre Commun de Microscopie Appliquée (CCMA, Université Côte d’Azur) for the preparation of the substrates necessary for the SEM analyses. This work was supported by CNRS GDR 2088 « BIOMIM ».

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    Aminata Niang, Abdoulaye Dramé & Alioune Diouf

  2. NICE Lab, Université Côte d’Azur, 06100, Nice, France

    Frédéric Guittard & Thierry Darmanin

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A. N. performed the monomer synthesis and surface characterization. T. D. did electropolymerization and wrote the manuscript. A. D., A. D. and F. G. acquired the funding for the student and the laboratories. All authors reviewed the manuscript.

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Niang, A., Dramé, A., Diouf, A. et al. Surfaces displaying high hydrophobicity and strong water adhesion by soft-template electropolymerization using di-substituted benzenes as model. Polym. Bull. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-024-05280-3

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