Enhancing hydrophobic properties of ZnO structures using gold coatings

A. È. Muslimov, V. M. Kanevskii

FSRC "Crystallography and Photonics" RAS, Moscow, Russia

Abstract: The effect of enhancement the hydrophobic properties of the ensemble of micro- and nanostructures ZnO as a result of coating with gold was discovered. For the first time, it has been shown that coating the ensemble with a micro- and nanoparticle ZnO layer of gold leads to a sharp increase in the wetting edge angle from 145 to 168$^\circ$ (water drop volume 5 mm$^3$) and a decrease in the hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity transition time under ultraviolet irradiation.

Keywords: ZnO, gold, superhydrophobic.

Received: 23.08.2021
Revised: 29.11.2021
Accepted: 29.11.2021

DOI: 10.21883/PJTF.2022.04.52087.19002

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