【2021年影響因子/JCR分區：13.273/Q1】《CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL》Lotus-leaf-inspired hierarchical structured surface with non-fouling and mechanical bactericidal performances
作者：Rujian Jiang , Lingwan Hao,Lingjie Song , Limei Tian,? , Yong Fan , Jie Zhao,?, Chaozong L
關鍵字：Synergistic antibacterial Mechanical bactericidal Long-term antimicrobial Biomimetic hierarchical structures Lotus leaf surface
論文來源：期刊
發表時間：2020年
Antibiotics, a power tool to combat pathogenic bacterial infection, have experienced their inability to kill drugresistant bacteria due to the development of antibiotic resistance. As an alternative, nanostructured, mechanical
bactericidal surfaces may hold promise in killing bacteria without triggering antimicrobial resistance; however,
accumulation of dead bacteria would greatly reduce their antimicrobial activity. In this study, for the fifirst time
we report a surprising discovery that the lotus leaf, well known for its superhydrophobicity, has demonstrated
not only strong repelling effffect against bacteria but also bactericidal activity via a cell-rupturing mechanism.
Inspired by this unexpected fifinding, we subsequently designed and prepared a hierarchically structured surface,
which was rendered superhydrophobic (water contact angle: 174°; roll-offff angle: < 1°) upon surface per-
flfluorination. The hierarchically structured surface has displayed remarkable synergistic antimicrobial activity
against Escherichia coli: while the majority of the bacteria (> 99%) were repelled from the surface (non-fouling),
those tenacious bacteria that managed to be in touch of the surface were physically killed completely. Compared
to a conventional superhydrophobic surface (non-fouling to some extent, but no bacteria-killing) or a mechanical
bactericidal surface (bacteria-killing but not bacteria-repelling), our new structured surface has the great advantage in maintaining long-term effffectiveness in antimicrobial activity based entirely on physical mechanism.