Abstract
In the present paper, micro-grooved Ti3SiC2 surfaces with different roughness were fabricated by pulsed laser processing. The surface topography and chemical composition of smooth and micro-grooved surfaces were characterised. The wetting behaviours of smooth and micro-grooved Ti3SiC2 surfaces such as static contact angle, anisotropic wettability and contact angle evolution versus time were investigated. The experimental results show that micro-grooved structures can be efficiently fabricated on Ti3SiC2 surface by laser processing. The contact angle of micro-grooved surface was increased by 64.2° compared with that of smooth surface. The difference values of contact angles between perpendicular and parallel direction were < 10°. The wetting state of droplet on textured surface was close to Cassie–Baxter model.
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