TY - JOUR
TI - What factors affect lotus effect?
AU - Zhou Chan-Juan
AU - Tian Dan
AU - He Ji-Huan
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2018
VL - 22
IS - 4
SP - 1737
EP - 1743
PT - Article
AB - Lotus effect is the superhydrophobicity property, and widely used for  self-cleaning in modern textile engineering. This paper reveals that the  lotus effect is a kind of nanoeffect or size effect in nanotechnology, the  surface morphology, solution's molecule weight, and temperature are three  main factors affecting the lotus effect. Solutions' pH values or ionic  liquids are also discussed in this paper. A series of experiments are  carried out to measure contact angles for different solutions/liquids on  the lotus surface at different temperature.