Facile fabrication of a flower-like superhydrophobic copper surface with superior corrosion resistance
- Resource Type
- research-article
- Authors
- Jiang, Fan; Song, Tongyu; Kuang, Yilong; Wu, Hongyan
- Source
- International Journal of Materials Research.
- Subject
- superhydrophobic
copper
electrodeposition
corrosion
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1862-5282
2195-8556
A superhydrophobic copper coating was prepared by combining ionic liquid copper electrodeposition and a brief stearic acid modification process. After modification, the copper stearic acid was well formed and flower-like clusters were present on the surface of the superhydrophobic coating. Finally, the surface of the sample exhibits a good superhydrophobic performance with a contact angle of 158° and obvious self-cleaning behavior. The results of potentiodynamic polarization and electrochemical impedance measurements revealed that the presence of a superhydrophobic surface could improve the anti-corrosion property of the samples.