Picosecond laser has ultrashort pulse width and ultrastrong peak power, which makes it widely used in the field of micro-nanoscale fabrication. polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is a typical silicone elastomer with good hydrophobicity. In order to further improve the hydrophobicity of PDMS, the picosecond laser was used to fabricate a grid-like microstructure on the surface of PDMS, and the relationship between hydrophobicity of PDMS with surface microstructure and laser processing parameters, such as processing times and cell spacing was studied. The results show that: compared with the unprocessed PDMS, the presence of surface microstructure significantly improved the hydrophobicity of PDMS. When the number of processing is constant, the hydrophobicity of PDMS decreases with the increase of cell spacing. However, when the cell spacing is fixed, the hydrophobicity of PDMS first increases and then decreases with the increase of processing times. In particular, when the times of laser processing is 6 and the cell spacing is 50μm, the contact angle of PDMS increased from 113° to 154°, which reached the level of superhydrophobic.
The picosecond laser has ultrashort pulse and superstrong peak power, which make it being focused on and applied in the micro-nanoscale fabrication field. Silicone elastomer PDMS is a typical antifouling material which can desorb defacement, using picosecond laser etching the surface through the way of galvanometer scanning in order to obtain a surface with micro-nano texture. The article studied the relationship between process parameters such as the power density, the scanning rate and the appearance of etched groove respectively, especially the width and depth of the groove. The results show that : for single marking, with the raise of the laser power density I, the depth of the groove increases, the inclination angle of the side wall is reduced. In another time, with the increase of the scanning rate v ,the depth of the groove decreases gradually and the surface morphology cannot be seen clearly. For multiple marking, the depth of the groove shown a falling slope from big to small with the increase of marking number. Finally,we got a path to optimize the process parameters to obtain a surface with micro-nano structures. After testing the surface contact angle, we found that the surface contact angle increased from 113° to 152°,which reached the level of superhydrophobic surface.
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