Superhydrophobic nickel films fabricated by electro/electroless deposition

Author

Tian, Feifei ; Hu, Anmin ; Li, Ming ; Mao, Dali

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of the Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2011

fDate

8-11 Aug. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Superhydrophobic nickel films were prepared by electrodeposition and electroless deposition without chemical modification. Experimental results reveal that the nickel film fabricated by electrodeposition is characterized with nanocone arrays and only has a contact angle of about 112°. By coupling electroless deposition, as the second step, hemispherically topped nanocones are generated and a high contact angle as much as 152.3° is obtained; that is, nickel surface has successfully transformed from hydrophobic to superhydrophobic.

Keywords

contact angle; electrodeposition; electroless deposition; hydrophobicity; Ni; contact angle; electrodeposition; electroless deposition coupling; hemispherically topped nanocones; nanocone arrays; superhydrophobic nickel films fabrication; Films; Nickel; Rough surfaces; Surface morphology; Surface roughness; Surface topography; Surface treatment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Packaging Technology and High Density Packaging (ICEPT-HDP), 2011 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1770-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1768-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEPT.2011.6066815

Filename

6066815