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Definitions

• the present invention generally relates to an article, in particular an optical article such as an ophthalmic lens, having superhydrophobic properties.
• hydrophobic coatings especially in the case of ophthalmic lens anti-fouling coatings, comprise fluorinated compounds, such as fluorosilanes and fluorosilazanes.
• Such coatings are described, inter alia, in US-6, 277,485 and 6,183,872 and in published international patent application WO 2006/049020.
• the best hydrophobic coatings when they are non-textured (smooth surface) make it possible to obtain angles of contact with water of 1 10-120 °.
• a surface is considered hydrophobic when it has a contact angle with water> 90 °.
• conventional hydrophobic surfaces have water contact angles of greater than 90 ° to 120 °.
• a surface is considered superhydrophobic when it has a water contact angle greater than 120 °, preferably 130 to 160 ° or more.
• a smooth hydrophobic surface can be made superhydrophobic by making it rough.
• the roughness of the surface causes air trapping in the structure, and a drop of water then rests on a composite surface made of solid and air.
• This effect commonly known as the "fakir" effect, makes it possible to reach high contact angles ( ⁇ 160 °) and a hysteresis of the contact angle which is rather low (less than 30 °, or even 10 °).
• patent application US-2005/0136217 describes a process for the preparation of self-cleaning surfaces having projections and depressions, the distance between the projections being from 0.1 to 200 ⁇ m and the height of the projections being from 0.1 to 100 .mu.m. More particularly, the process described in the above application consists in depositing a solution, dispersion or emulsion of a hydrophobic material which after removal of the solvent gives rise to tubular-shaped projections. But, besides the fact that the heights of the projections can be in the nanometric and / or micrometric range, for the same textured surface this height can vary considerably which leads to a great inhomogeneity of the hydrophobic properties of the surface.
• the object of the present invention is therefore to provide an article, in particular an optical article such as an ophthalmic lens for spectacles, having a superhydrophobic nanotextured surface that overcomes the drawbacks of the prior art, in particular less fragile than the prior art.
• the present invention also relates to an article as defined above which has a good resistance to the impalement of drops of water.
• an article having a nanotextured surface with superhydrophobic properties comprising an array of vertical pads, preferably regular, characterized in that the network of pads satisfies the following conditions:
• the surface fraction of the pads 0 S is such that 3% ⁇ 0 S ⁇ 13%, preferably 5% ⁇ 0 S ⁇ 13%, better 5.5% ⁇ 0 S ⁇ 13%, better 6% ⁇ 0 S ⁇ 13% and better still 8% ⁇ 0 S ⁇ 13%;
• Preferred ranges include 5% ⁇ 0 S ⁇ 12%, and more preferably 6% ⁇ 0 S ⁇ 12%; 7% ⁇ 0 S ⁇ 12%; 5% ⁇ 0 S ⁇ 10% and more preferably 8% ⁇ 0 S ⁇ 10%; the pitch p of the grating is such that 10 nm ⁇ p ⁇ 250 nm;
• the height of the pads h is such that 100 nm ⁇ h ⁇ 400 nm, preferably 250 nm ⁇ h ⁇ 400 nm, better 300 ⁇ h ⁇ 400 nm;
• the lateral surface of the pads is at most an angle of ⁇ 20 °, preferably ⁇ 10 °, better ⁇ 5 ° with respect to the vertical axis of the pads.
• the nanoscale gratings according to the invention have excellent resistance to corrosion. 'impalement.
• the networks of pads according to the invention may be periodic or random, preferably random.
• the base surface may be flat or curved, but is preferably planar, at least in the spaces between the pads.
• the pads according to the invention may take various forms: typically parallelepipedal, cylindrical possibly with a rounded apex, optionally conical with a rounded, frustoconical top (truncated truncated at their apex), pyramidal, optionally with a rounded, truncated pyramidal top.
• the diameter of the cylindrical studs with a rounded peak necessary to determine the parameter 0 S is measured at the base of the rounded peak of the studs, and is generally 50 to 100 nm, preferably greater than 50 nm, better still or greater than 60 nm, better the diameter varies from 60 to 90nm.
• the diameter is measured at 3 A of the height of the stud from the base.
• the largest side or diameter is measured at 3 A from the height, starting from the base of the stud, and is generally 50 to 100 nm preferably greater than 50 nm, more preferably equal to or greater than 60 nm; better the largest side or the diameter varies from 60 to 90 nm.
• the value of 0 S is also calculated by summing the sectional area of all the pads of a representative sample, (area of the section calculated from the sides and diameters measured as indicated previously) including a sample of at least 100 pads, and dividing by the total area of the sample.
• the networks of studs according to the invention generally have a roughness r> 2 (which ensures that the fakir state is favored by the system) and preferably satisfying the condition:
• the Young angle ⁇ y is the theoretical contact angle of a drop of liquid (here deionized water) on a smooth (non-textured) surface of a substrate and is defined by the relation: ⁇ - ⁇
• COS ⁇ y r
• ⁇ sv and ⁇ s ⁇ _ are the surface energies at the solid / vapor and solid / liquid interfaces respectively and ⁇ is the surface tension of pure water (72mN / m).
• the contact angle is between two limit values. Indeed, if one inflates a drop of water, the contact angle begins to increase without the line of contact of the drop apparently does not move. The contact angle increases until it reaches a maximum value ⁇ a where the line of contact begins to move. This angle ⁇ a is called "advancing angle".
• the Young angle ⁇ y lies between the angles ⁇ a and ⁇ r .
• the Young angle ⁇ y of a smooth (non-textured) surface of the material is equivalent to
• the angles of advance and retreat are measured by means of a goniometer equipped with a syringe injection / pumping in depositing on the surfaces a drop of deionized water of 15 .mu.l, then causing swelling and deflation of the drop of water at a flow rate of 20 .mu.l / minute.
• the angle ⁇ measured at 3 A of the height h of the pads starting from the base, that a plane perpendicular to the vertical axis of the pads with the side surface of the pad is such that ⁇ ⁇ y . In general, this angle ⁇ will be between 70 ° and 120 °.
• the height h of the pads of the nanotextured surfaces of the invention is lower than the wavelengths of visible light (400-800 nm), the risk of diffraction and optical problems is reduced.
• the nanotextured surface of the invention may be made in a hydrophobic substrate or in a substrate which is coated after formation of the nanotextured surface of a thin layer of a hydrophobic material.
• the coating can be total or partial. When it is partial, it covers the upper part of the studs. Preferably, the hydrophobic coating covers the entire nanotextured surface. These coatings generally have a thickness of less than or equal to 10 nm, preferably from 1 to 10 nm, better still from 1 to 5 nm.
• fluorosilane or fluorosilazane type coatings are generally fluorosilane or fluorosilazane type coatings. They can be obtained by depositing a fluorosilane or fluorosilazane precursor, preferably comprising at least two hydrolyzable groups per molecule.
• the precursor fluorosilanes preferentially contain fluoropolyether groups and better still perfluoropolyether groups.
• fluorosilanes are well known and are described, inter alia, in patents US 5,081, 192, US 5,763,061, US 6,183,872, US 5,739,639, US 5,922,787, US 6,337,235, US 6,277,485 and EP 0933377.
• Fluorosilanes particularly suitable for Hydrophobic coatings are those containing fluoropolyether groups described in US Pat. No. 6,277,485.
• R F is a monovalent or divalent polyfluoropolyether group
• R 1 is a divalent alkylene, arylene or a combination thereof, optionally containing one or more heteroatoms or functional groups and optionally substituted by halogens, and preferably containing 2 at 16 carbon atoms
• R 2 is a lower alkyl group (i.e., a C 1 -C 4 alkyl group)
• Y is a halogen atom, a lower alkoxy group (ie a group -C 4 alkoxy, preferably methoxy or ethoxy), or a lower acyloxy group (ie OC ( O) R 3 where R 3 is a C 1 -C 4 alkyl group; x is 0 or 1, and optionally 2; and y is 1 (R F is monovalent) or 2 (R F is divalent).
• Y is a lower alkoxy group and R F is a perfluoropolyether group.
• R is an alkyl group, preferably CiCl, such as - CH 3 , -C 2 H 5 and -C 3 H 7 ;
• CF 3 (CF 2 ) SCH 2 CH 2 Si (OC 2 Hs) 3 ((thdecafluoro-1,1,2,2-tetrahydro) octylthythoxysilane);
• Fluorosilane-containing compositions also recommended for the preparation of hydrophobic and / or oleophobic coatings are described in US Patent 6,183,872. They contain fluoropolymers containing organic groups bearing silicon-based groups represented by the following general formula and having a molecular mass of 5.10 2 to 1.10 5 :
• R F represents a perfluoroalkyl group
• Z is fluoro or trifluoromethyl
• a, b, c, d and e each independently represent 0 or an integer greater than or equal to 1, provided that the sum of a + b + c + d + e is not less than to 1 and that the order of the repetitive units appearing between the parentheses indexed under a, b, c, d and e is not limited to that represented
• Y is H or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms
• X represents a hydrogen, bromine or iodine atom
• R 1 represents a hydroxyl group or a hydrolyzable group
• R 2 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbon group
• m is 0.1 or 2
• n is 1, 2 or 3
• n represents an integer at least equal to 1, preferably at least equal to 2.
• Fluorinated hydrophobic coating compositions as described above are sold under the names KP 801 M ® (Shin-Etsu Chemical), OPTOOL DSX ® (Daikin Industries), and KY 130 (Shin-Etsu Chemical). Of course, it is also possible to use mixtures of these compositions.
• the nanotextured surface may be formed on a bare lens substrate or coated with one or more functional coatings such as anti-shock, anti-abrasion and / or anti-corrosion coatings. scratches and anti-reflections.
• the lens can also be colored or photochromic.
• the mold obtained which may be a rigid mold, or preferably a flexible mold, will itself be used to transfer a replica of the nanostructured surface onto an optical article, typically by applying a curable composition to the surface of the article or microstructure mold and pressing the mold and the article against each other, and then hardening the composition.
• nanostructured surface mold in molded optical article manufacturing operations in which the substrate material is cast and cured in the nanostructured surface mold.
• the surface of the nanostructured mold may have previously been coated with one or more coatings such as hydrophobic coating and / or oleophobic, anti-abrasion, anti-shock.
• nanotextured surfaces according to the invention are particularly useful as rain-proofing surfaces, that is to say surfaces promoting the evacuation of raindrops and preventing their impalement on the surface, thus reducing the deposit of soiling on the surface. the surface.
• Such surfaces are particularly advantageous for optical articles, in particular ophthalmic lenses and particular spectacle lenses, thanks to their property of low attachment of raindrops and aptitude for the rapid elimination of these drops.
• the invention therefore also aims to use a nanostructured surface as described above to confer ani-rain properties on the surface of an article, in particular optical such as an ophthalmic lens and more specifically a spectacle lens. .
• Figure 1 a photomicrograph of a nanotextured silicon surface according to the invention (network No. 1);
• Figure 2 a diagram of the device for determining the resistance to the impact of drops.
• the substrate-sample is a square of 3cm x 3cm of which 1 cm 2 in the center is texture.
• a silicon wafer was coated by centrifugal deposition with a 30 g / l solution in methyl isobutyl ketone of poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) for 30 seconds at a rotation speed of 4000 rpm and an acceleration of 3000 rpm. / min.
• the final thickness of the coating obtained is 150 nm.
• the coated cake is put in an oven for 30 minutes at 180 °.
• the coated face of the wafer is then insolated according to the desired pattern by means of a computer-controlled electron beam (Leica electronic mask). 4.
• the insolated layer is then developed for 45 seconds in a solution of methyl isobutyl ketone / isopropanol 1/3 by volume.
• a 40 nm chromium layer is then deposited. (classic vacuum deposit). 6.
• the PMMA layer is removed by treatment with acetone, the chromium deposited on the silicon remains intact, while that which is above the resin is removed with it.
• the chromium layer is chemically removed by soaking the sample in a commercial solution called Cr-etch ® (Chrome etch 3144 (Honeywell), a mixture of perchloric acid and ammonium-cerium (IV) nitrate) .
• Cr-etch ® Chrome etch 3144 (Honeywell), a mixture of perchloric acid and ammonium-cerium (IV) nitrate
• the interest of the nano structure is to increase very significantly the angles to the advance and the withdrawal.
• the hysteresis remains modest which shows that one is in a Cassie state. In the case of a Wenzel state, the hysteresis would be of the order of 100 to 140 °.
• Such receding angles are never obtained with flat surfaces. These values of advancing and retreating angles help to keep spherical drops of water and are sufficient for them to bounce off. When drops are deposited on these surfaces. They are eliminated very easily by rolling as soon as you tilt the surface
• a syringe 1 controlled by a syringe driver allows to drop drops of calibrated size.
• the syringe is arranged in such a way that the drops fall above the sample by a height H as shown diagrammatically in FIG.
• the observation of the impact is made by means of a fast camera 2 to 1000 images per second.
• the views are taken in profile by placing the lighting 3 behind a diffuser 4 symmetrically to the camera. Impacts of drops varying in radius from 1.1 to 2 mm from different heights (from 3 cm to 1 m) were performed on the nanostructured surface, and rebounds were observed even for dropped drops of 1 m from above. Water does not enter the surface but bounces.
• a drop placed on the nanostructured surfaces of the example evaporates while remaining in the fakir state until reaching the limit of resolution of the experiments which is
• this drop size is that of macroscopic drops a little larger than the mist).
• the evolution of these drops is observed thanks to a binocular arranged horizontally so as to look at the drop profile.

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