Fabrication of Water- and Ice-Repellent Surfaces on Additive-Manufactured Components Using Laser-Based Microstructuring Methods
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Abstract
Laser patterning techniques have shown in the last decades to be capable of producing functional surfaces on a large variety of materials. A particular challenge for these techniques is the treatment of additively manufactured parts with high roughness levels. The presented study reports on the surface modification of additive-manufactured components of Ti64 and Al–Mg–Sc (Scalmalloy), with the aim of implementing water- and ice-repellent properties. Different laser-based microstructuring techniques, using nanosecond and picosecond pulses, are combined to create multiscale textures with feature sizes between ≈800 nm and 21 μm. The wettability could be set to static water contact angles between 141° and 153° for Ti64 and Al–Mg–Sc, respectively. In addition, surface free energy is analyzed for different surface conditions.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 2101624 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Advanced engineering materials |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| Early online date | Feb 2022 |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2022 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| Scopus | 85125082886 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0003-4333-4636/work/196675422 |
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Keywords
- Al–Mg–Sc, Ti6Al4V, direct laser interference patterning, direct laser writing, surface free energy, water- and ice-repellent properties