초록 |
Recent years, biomimetics, which is material fabrication research mimicking of nature functional surfaces, attract much attention due to their great possibilities for creation of novel functional materials. Furthermore, that nature functional surfaces are formed by low energy consumption processes of self-organization and self-assembly. In this report, we focus on a plastron of aquatic insects, and show preparation of the artificial plastron by using self-organized porous polymer films. Self-organized porous polymer films were prepared by casting the chloroform solution of a hydrophobic polymer and an amphiphilic copolymer onto glass substrates. Porous polymer films resist water pressure under water, and oxygen transferred from air to water though the films. This phenomenon suggests the porous polymer films showed possibility of use as artificial plastrons. Moreover, superhydrophobic anti-reflection surfaces prepared by using porous polymer films as etching masks will be also shown. |