Fabrication of highly transparent superhydrophobic coatings from hollow silica nanoparticles

Langmuir

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 7512-7518

  Xu, Ligang ^a,b   He, Junhui ^a  

^a TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATING SURFACE; DIP COATING; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; SILICA NANOPARTICLES; SLIDE GLASS; SLIDING ANGLE; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC COATINGS; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; SURFACE WETTABILITY; THERMAL-ANNEALING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY TEM; UV-VISIBLE SPECTROPHOTOMETER; WATER CONTACT ANGLE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CONTACT ANGLE; GLASS; HYDROPHOBICITY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COATINGS;

EID: 84861158351     PISSN: 07437463     EISSN: 15205827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/la301420p     Document Type: Article

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