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SUBMITTER: Lanara C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6829529 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lanara Christina C Mimidis Alexandros A Stratakis Emmanuel E
Materials (Basel, Switzerland) 20191020 20
We report on a novel single-step method to develop steel surfaces with permanent highly hydrophilic and anti-corrosive properties, without employing any chemical coating. It is based on the femtosecond (fs) laser processing in a saturated background gas atmosphere. It is particularly shown that the fs laser microstructuring of steel in the presence of ammonia gas gives rise to pseudoperiodic arrays of microcones exhibiting highly hydrophilic properties, which are stable over time. This is in con ...[more]