Using Aluminum Oxide for Functional Refining of TiO۲-based Self-cleaning

Aim of this research is forming a self-cleaning thin film with refined function to be used in potential fields and dissolve the previous generations’ problems of these thin films, like expensive cost of keeping safe, low cleaning time of instruments and low resistant ability. For refining the function of these TiO۲-based thin films, we used Al۲O۳ powder in presence of polymeric solvent, in which increases the self-cleaning ability of these thin films. Finally, we formed thin films on pieces of thin glass. X-ray diffraction patterns (XRD) for the phase detection of used components in thin films, scanning electron microscope (SEM) for surface morphology, optical microscope (OM) and contact angle goniometer (CAG) for measuring the hydrophobicity ability were used to characterize formed thin films. Results indicate the successful formation of thin films with refined hydrophobic function.

کلیدواژه ها:

self-cleaning ، Al۲O۳ ، TiO۲-based thin films ، contact angle goniometer