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The Dry‐Style Antifogging Properties of Mosquito Compound Eyes and Artificial Analogues Prepared by Soft Lithography
Author(s) -
Gao X.,
Yan X.,
Yao X.,
Xu L.,
Zhang K.,
Zhang J.,
Yang B.,
Jiang L.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200601946
Subject(s) - microscale chemistry , nanotechnology , lithography , materials science , nanostructure , soft lithography , nanoscopic scale , polymer science , optoelectronics , mathematics , alternative medicine , pathology , fabrication , medicine , mathematics education
The antifogging properties of mosquito compound eyes (see figure) result from their elaborate superhydrophobic surface structure, which consists of hexagonally non‐close‐packed nipples at the nanoscale and hexagonally close‐packed hemispheres at the microscale. A soft‐lithography approach is adopted to fabricate artificial compound eyes for exploring the effects of the hierarchical micro‐ and nanostructure on surface hydrophobicity.