Superhydrophobic Antireflection Coating on Glass Using Grass-like Alumina and Fluoropolymer

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2020-11-04

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ACS applied materials & interfaces, Volume 12, issue 44, pp. 49957-49962

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This work presents a superhydrophobic antireflective (AR) coating on glass. The coating consists of a grass-like alumina layer capped with plasma-deposited fluoropolymer. The grass-like alumina is formed by hot water treatment of atomic layer-deposited alumina on glass, and the fluoropolymer is plasma-deposited from CHF3. Excellent broadband AR performance is observed in the visible spectrum with an average transmission of 94.9% for single-sided coated glass, which is close to the maximum 95.3% possible for this glass. Extremely desirable contact angles are obtained with 5-7 min-long fluoropolymer treatments on grass-like alumina with 173° advancing and 160° receding contact angles. This type of multifunctional coating can be beneficial in a multitude of applications like self-cleaning AR coating for solar panels, windows in high-rise buildings, sensors, and aerospace applications as well as just utilizing the excellent water repellent behavior in applications where only superhydrophobicity is required.

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antireflective coating, atomic layer deposition, nanostructures, optical coating, self-cleaning, superhydrophobic

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Isakov, K, Kauppinen, C, Franssila, S & Lipsanen, H 2020, ' Superhydrophobic Antireflection Coating on Glass Using Grass-like Alumina and Fluoropolymer ', ACS applied materials & interfaces, vol. 12, no. 44, pp. 49957-49962 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c12465