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Wear-Resistant Nanostructured Sol-Gel Coatings for Functional Applications
ISSN: 2369 - 3355
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Wear-Resistant Nanostructured Sol-Gel Coatings for Functional Applications
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International Category Code (ICC):
ICC-1802
Publisher: Lifescience Global Inc.
International Journal Address (IAA):
IAA.ZONE/2369108283355
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2369 - 3355
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Abstract
Improvement of the wear resistance of functional surfaces is crucial in order to facilitate a variety of practical applications, such as self-cleaning or anti-fogging. This especially holds for functional surface nanostructures, whose tops can easily get worn off when exposed to even low abrasion forces. Thus, our work addresses the enhancement of the wear resistance of such fine-scale structures. We present an efficient manufacturing procedure for generating long-term durable surfaces with simultaneously tailored wetting behavior and high optical quality. Our approach is based on a sol-gel coating that consists of an alumina layer with specific nanoroughness yielding the function-relevant surface structure, and a protective thin smooth silica film providing the mechanical robustness without influencing that functional structure. The roughness of the alumina layer can be systematically adjusted, thus enabling us to achieve desired wet...
