화학공학소재연구정보센터
Advanced Materials, Vol.19, No.17, 2213-2213, 2007
The dry-style antifogging properties of mosquito compound eyes and artificial analogues prepared by soft lithography
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.