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- Patent Title: Fabrication method for micro-/nanostructured compound-eye arrays with hydrophobicity and light trapping and applications thereof
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Application No.: US17252320Application Date: 2018-10-19
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Publication No.: US11518123B2Publication Date: 2022-12-06
- Inventor: Hanxiong Huang , Heng Xie
- Applicant: South China University Of Technology
- Applicant Address: CN Guangdong
- Assignee: South China University Of Technology
- Current Assignee: South China University Of Technology
- Current Assignee Address: CN Guangdong
- Agency: Global IP Services, PLLC
- Agent Prakash Nama
- Priority: CN201810620898.0 20180615
- International Application: PCT/CN2018/110983 WO 20181019
- International Announcement: WO2019/237618 WO 20191219
- Main IPC: B29D11/00
- IPC: B29D11/00 ; B29C33/38 ; B29C45/26 ; B29C45/00 ; B29L11/00

Abstract:
The present invention relates to micro-/nanostructured compound-eye arrays and fabrication method thereof, and discloses a fabrication method and applications for the molded polymer parts with the micro-/nanostructured compound-eye arrays on their surfaces, which exhibit both hydrophobicity and light trapping. The fabrication method for the molded polymer parts with the micro-/nanostructured compound-eye arrays includes following steps. A flexible microlens array template is assembled; the flexible microlens array template is fixed on an injection mold cavity, and a polymer part with microlens arrays distributing on its surface is molded by using injection molding; the microlens arrays on the molded polymer part are imprinted onto the surface of an ultra-pure aluminum foil, nanopores are formed on its surface via anode oxidation, and so an aluminum template with negative micro-/nanostructured compound-eye arrays is fabricated; the aluminum template is fixed on an injection mold cavity, and a polymer part with micro-/nanostructured compound-eye arrays distributing on its surface is molded by using injection molding. The dual-level compound-eye arrays (orderly distributed convex semi-sphere microlens and densely distributed nanopillars) are developed on the surface of the molded polymer part, which exhibits both hydrophobicity and light trapping.
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