Citation: Wang Miao, Zhou Lei, Hou Yaqi, He Wen, Liu Wei, Wu Feng, Hou Xu. Dynamic and reversible electrowetting with low voltage on the dimethicone infused carbon nanotube array in air[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2020, 31(7): 1914-1918. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2020.04.059 shu

Dynamic and reversible electrowetting with low voltage on the dimethicone infused carbon nanotube array in air

Wang Miao ^a,1 ,
Zhou Lei ^a,1 ,
Hou Yaqi ^b,1 ,
He Wen ^b ,
Liu Wei ^a ,
Wu Feng ^a ,
Hou Xu ^a,b,*,

a.
Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, College of Physical Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
b.
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China

houx@xmu.edu.cn

Received Date: 8 April 2020
Revised Date: 28 April 2020
Accepted Date: 30 April 2020
Available Online: 8 May 2020

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Unremitting efforts have been intensively making for pursuing the goal of the reversible transition of electrowetting owing to its vital importance to many practical applications, but which remains a major challenge for carbon nanotubes due to the irreversible electrochemical damage. Herein, we proposed a subtly method to prevent the CNT array from electrochemical damage by using liquid medium instead of air medium to form a liquid/liquid/solid triphase system. The dimethicone dynamically refills in CNT arrays after removing of voltage that makes the surface back to hydrophobic, which is an elegant way to not only decrease energy dissipation in electrowetting process but also obtain extra energy in reversible dewetting process. Repeated cycles of in situ experiments showed that more than four reversible electrowetting cycles could be achieved in air. It worth mention that the in situ reversible electrowetting voltage of the dimethicone infused CNT array has been lowered to 2 V from 7 V which is the electrowetting voltage for the pure CNT array. The surface of the dimethicone infused CNT array can maintain hydrophobicity with a contact angle of 145.6° after four cycles, compared with 148.1° of the initial state. Moreover, a novel perspective of theoretical simulations through the binding energy has been provided which proved that the charged CNTs preferred binding with water molecules thereby replacing the dimethicone molecules adsorbed on the CNTs, whereas reconnected with dimethicone after removing the charges. Our study provides distinct insight into dynamic reversible electrowetting on the nanostructured surface in air and supplies a way for precise control of wettability in surface chemistry, smart phase-change heat transfer enhancement, liquid lenses, microfluidics, and other chemical engineering applications.
- Carbon nanotube array,
- Electrowetting,
- Reversible,
- Dynamic,
- Low voltage
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