Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Superomniphobic, flexible and rigid substrates with high transparency and adjustable haze for optoelectronic application
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Application No.: US16656996Application Date: 2019-10-18
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Publication No.: US11747700B2Publication Date: 2023-09-05
- Inventor: Sajad Haghanifar , Paul W. Leu
- Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH—OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
- Applicant Address: US PA Pittsburgh
- Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH—OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
- Current Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH—OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Pittsburgh
- Agency: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC
- Agent Carol A. Marmo
- Main IPC: G02F1/16755
- IPC: G02F1/16755 ; G02F1/1337 ; G02F1/1333 ; G02F1/01

Abstract:
The invention relates generally to optically high transparency and adjustable haze, superomniphobic, rigid and flexible structures and, more particularly, to fused silica glass and flexible plastic, e.g., polymer, structures having a sub-wavelength texture formed on a surface thereof, which is effective to impart the optical properties of high transparency and adjustable haze to the structures. The texture is reentrant. Additionally, the optically high transparency and adjustable haze structures include a silicon dioxide coating applied to the texture and a treatment of a low surface energy material deposited on the silicon dioxide coating. The silicon dioxide coating renders the structures super hydrophilic, and the low surface energy material treatment renders the structures superomniphobic.
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