Author Affiliations
1Shanxi Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan, Shanxi 0 30051, China2School of Mechanical Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, Shanxi 0 30051, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Experimental setup for fabricating microtexture and processed titanium sample. (a) Experimental setup; (b) titanium sample
Fig. 2. SEM images of superwetting titanium microstructures fabricated by fiber laser ablation with line spacing of 0.03 mm. (a)(b) Pulse power is 12 W;(c)(d) pulse power is 16 W
Fig. 3. SEM images of titanium microstructures fabricated by fiber laser ablation with pulse power of 16 W. (a) Line spacing is 0.07 mm; (b) partially enlarged image with line spacing of 0.07 mm; (c) line spacing is 0.2 mm; (d) line spacing is 0.4 mm
Fig. 4. Superhydrophilicity before aging and hydrophobicity after aging of fabricated titanium microstructure. (a) Superhydrophilicity; (b) hydrophobicity
Fig. 5. Energy diffraction spectra (EDS) of untreated and microstructure sample surfaces. (a) SEM image of untreated sample; (b) EDS spectrum at spot 1 of untreated sample; (c) SEM image of microstructure sample; (d) EDS spectrum at spot 1 of microstructure sample
Fig. 6. Comparison of different surface contact angles
Fig. 7. "Lotus effect" on surface of titanium metal microtextured coating. (a) Tilted sample; (b) drop rolling down; (c) final state of drop
Sample No. | Line space /mm | Scanning speed /(mm·s-1) | Repetition frequency /kHz | Pulse power /W |
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1 | 0.01 | 80 | 80 | 16 | 2 | 0.03 | 60 | 80 | 4 | 3 | 0.05 | 40 | 80 | 12 | 4 | 0.07 | 20 | 80 | 8 | 5 | 0.20 | 60 | 40 | 16 | 6 | 0.40 | 60 | 40 | 16 |
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Table 1. Processing parameters for fabricating hydrophilic titanium microstructure with fiber laser
Sample No. | Line space /mm | Scanning speed /(mm·s-1) | Repetition frequency /kHz | Pulse power /W |
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1 | 0.03 | 60 | 40 | 4 | 2 | 0.03 | 60 | 40 | 8 | 3 | 0.03 | 60 | 40 | 12 | 4 | 0.03 | 60 | 40 | 16 | 5 | 0.05 | 60 | 40 | 16 | 6 | 0.07 | 60 | 40 | 16 |
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Table 2. Processing parameters of fiber laser ablation for fabricating titanium microstructure with superhydrophilicity
Sample | Atom fraction /% |
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Ti | O | N |
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Flat-spot 1 | 83.27 | 4.30 | 12.03 | Flat-spot 2 | 90.05 | 1.09 | 8.85 | Flat-spot 3 | 87.39 | 3.05 | 9.56 | Low-spot 1 | 64.24 | 25.93 | 9.83 | Low-spot 2 | 75.27 | 16.66 | 8.08 | Low-spot 3 | 75.68 | 7.84 | 16.47 | High-spot 1 | 60.95 | 29.11 | 9.94 | High-spot 2 | 73.04 | 19.33 | 7.63 | High-spot 3 | 84.86 | 10.81 | 4.34 |
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Table 3. Element contents in different regions of untreated and microstructure sample surfaces