Patterned Ultraslippery Surfaces of Stainless Steel Prepared by Femtosecond Laser Ablation for Directional Manipulation of Liquid Droplets

Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) have promising applications in chip laboratories, nanofriction power generation, and microfluidics due to their excellent properties such as good hydrophobicity and low adhesion. However, the self-driven stability of conventionally lubricated surfaces is not high, and the velocity of liquid droplets is difficult to regulate. This greatly limits the potential applications of SLIPS. A strategy is offered to prepare microporous structures of SLIPS directly on a stainless-steel substrate using femtosecond laser processing technology as the main means to realize exhibiting smoothness to liquids. At the same time, the principle of bionics is utilized, the porous structure of SLIPS is combined with the groove structure of rice leaves, or porous structures are combined with the wedge structure of shorebird beak to prepare the three-dimensional structure of SLIPS. Droplets exhibit significant individual anisotropy on three-dimensional (3D) SLIPS of leaf-like groove stripe structure in rice, enabling the precise control of droplet motion direction. When droplets are transported in wedge-shaped SLIPS with an asymmetric structure, the wedge edge can limit the direction of droplet motion while squeezing the droplet to generate Laplace pressure gradient, which achieves continuous self-driven transport of droplets. In addition, based on the above two processing strategies, an information transfer device is designed: the splicing of the self-driven transport surface with anisotropic topological channels enables the differential drive for liquid transport, which provides the conditions for the information transfer of the droplets. This strategy not only is simple and efficient but also provides new ideas for the effective development of multifunctional SLIPS as well as lab-on-a-chip and microfluidic domains.

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