Fabrication of superamphiphobic-textured surfaces with reversibly switchable wettability.

To realize switchable wettability for water and oils, we firstly design a facile approach to achieve superamphiphobic-textured surfaces that display the apparent contact angles greater than 150° and the sliding angles smaller than 10° for various liquids, such as water and hexadecane. Then, plasma treatment and surface fluorination were performed on the superamphiphobic surface. The tunability of the chemical composition, along with hierarchical rough surface structure, gave rise to reversibly switchable wettability between superamphiphobicity and superamphiphilicity. The wettability of the textured surface was demonstrated by visible experimental results and measurements. The reason of switchable wettability can be confirmed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis. These results give a useful attempt in simultaneously and reversibly switching wettability for water and oils, which may have potential application in functional superamphiphobic materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]