Abstract
Plant surfaces show a great variety of functional structures between micro- to nano-dimensions. Epicuticular wax crystals are very frequent and cause extreme water repellence and are responsible for the self-cleaning property. These waxes are complex mixtures of aliphatic components like primary or secondary alcohols, aldehydes and fatty acids, which self assemble into three-dimensional structures on the plant surface as well as on artificial surfaces. We used atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to study the process of wax crystal formation under varying environmental conditions (temperature and solvent) to optimize the development of biomimetic hydrophobic structured surfaces.
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