Facile Fabrication of Transparent Superhydrophobic Surfaces by Spray Deposition
- 5 July 2011
- journal article
- letter
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
- Vol. 3 (7), 2179-2183
- https://doi.org/10.1021/am2004575
Abstract
Herein, we present a one-step facile spray-deposition process for fabricating a new superhydrophobic surface with a novel statistical copolymer. The polymeric material is relatively inexpensive, easily prepared, transparent, solvent-processable, very simple, and applicable to rugged substrates. The materials presented herein also feature a near-perfect superhydrophobic surface with a static water contact angle of 178° and a transmittance of higher than 75% at 550 nm wavelength.Keywords
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