A stable hierarchical superhydrophobic coating on pipeline steel surface with self-cleaning, anticorrosion, and anti-scaling properties

Superhydrophobic surface has attracted great attention because of its potential applications. In this work, a facile method for fabrication of a superhydrophobic coating on pipeline steel surface is reported. A hierarchical structured coating with nanoflakes was fabricated via electrodeposition and solution-immersion, and then the coating achieved superhydrophobic with water contact angle about 157° and sliding angle around 3° after fluorination modification. The surface morphology and wettability changed with different experimental parameters were also investigated. The prepared superhydrophobic coating exhibited efficient self-cleaning and anticorrosion properties. Furthermore, the anti-scaling property of this superhydrophobic coating was confirmed since the CaCO 3 crystals on the superhydrophobic coating were mainly needlelike compared to the rhombohedral CaCO 3 crystals on the surface of steel substrate. This superhydrophobic coating maintained good long-term stability in air, and mechanical and thermal stability under certain environment. This superhydrophobic coating provided potential multifunctional applications, such as self-cleaning, corrosion resistance and anti-scaling properties, of deposition metal or alloy coating.