Issue 16, 2010
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Regenerative superhydrophobic coating from microcapsules

Qian Wang,a   Jiaoli Li,a   Chengliang Zhang,a   Xiaozhong Qu,a   Jiguang Liu*a  and  Zhenzhong Yang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
E-mail: jiguangl@iccas.ac.cn, yangzz@iccas.ac.cn
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Abstract

A facile approach is proposed to fabricate a lotus leaf effect superhydrophobic coating constructed from calcium hydroxide microcapsules with a porous polymer shell. The capsules coated onto the substrates are robust due to the intermediate cured epoxy resin. A nanostructured hydrophobic calcium stearate precipitate forms by diffusion-restricted reaction upon treatment with soluble salt stearate, which is significant to allow water to freely roll off. Furthermore, the lotus leaf effect can be regenerated.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B925298C
Article type
Paper
Submitted
02 Dec 2009
Accepted
26 Jan 2010
First published
01 Mar 2010

J. Mater. Chem., 2010,20, 3211-3215

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Regenerative superhydrophobic coating from microcapsules

Q. Wang, J. Li, C. Zhang, X. Qu, J. Liu and Z. Yang, J. Mater. Chem., 2010, 20, 3211 DOI: 10.1039/B925298C

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