TY - JOUR
TI - High energy surface as a receptor in electrospinning: A good switch for hydrophobicity to hydrophilicity
AU - Li Xiao-Xia
AU - Tian Dan
AU - He Ji-Huan
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2021
VL - 25
IS - 3
SP - 2205
EP - 2212
PT - Article
AB - The lotus leaf surface is modified by covering nanofibers to check its wetting property. The well-known lotus effect of the modified surface is greatly weakened, and a hydrophilic property is found. The geometric potential theory is used to ex-plain the phenomenon, it shows that the two adjacent nanofibers can produce a high geometric potential to push water molecules to move along the fibers, as a result, a hydrophilic surface is predicted after surface modification. An experiment is designed to elucidate the main factors affecting the wetting property of the modified surface of lotus leaf.