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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE

Water flow tuned by micro/nano hierarchical structures fabricated through two-photon polymerization

Weilong Cao1 ,  Wenhui Yu1* ,  Zhen Xiao2 ,  Wuhong Xin3 ,  Yongling Wu1 ,  Hongyu Zheng1
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1 Department of Mechanical Manufacturing, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, 255000, Zibo, Shandong, P.R. China
2 Department of Vehicle Engineering, School of Transportation and Vehicle Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, 255000, Zibo, Shandong, P.R. China
3 Analytical Testing Center, Shandong University of Technology, 255000, Zibo, Shandong, P.R. China
MSAM 2023, 2(2), 0879 https://doi.org/10.36922/msam.0879
Submitted: 28 April 2023 | Accepted: 24 May 2023 | Published: 9 June 2023
© 2023 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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Abstract

Two-photon polymerization (TPP) is a sub-classification of vat photopolymerization. It has been widely used to fabricate micro/nano hierarchical structures that have the potential to be used to tune the fluid flow in chips. The present work first studied the influence of laser power on the feature size of TPP-fabricated 2D structures. It was found that the increase of laser power from 1.0 μW to 1.4 μW leads to the feature size increasing from 203 nm to 307 nm. Then, the effect of scanning parameters on the accuracy and surface quality of 3D structures was investigated. The arrangement of the voxels at different scanning strategies explains the mechanisms of the variation of accuracy and surface roughness. Finally, the pinecone structures with micro/nano hierarchical features were built and evaluated for their water repellence. The increase in the number of rows of pinecone structures significantly enhances the water-repellent performance.

Keywords
Femtosecond laser
Two-photon polymerization
Pinecone structure
Water repellence
Funding
National Key R&D Program of China
Shandong Natural Science Foundation
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