Ultrafast oleophobic-hydrophilic switching surfaces for antifogging, self-cleaning, and oil-water separation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 7504-7511

  Brown, P S ^a   Atkinson, O D L A ^a   Badyal, J P S ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

antifogging; copolymer fluorosurfactant complex; oil water separation; oleophobic hydrophilic; self cleaning; switching surface

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; CONTACT ANGLE; COPOLYMERS; PARAFFINS; SEPARATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SWITCHING;

ANTIFOGGING; COPOLYMER-FLUOROSURFACTANT COMPLEX; OIL WATER SEPARATION; OLEOPHOBIC-HYDROPHILIC; SELF-CLEANING; SWITCHING SURFACES;

HYDROPHILICITY;

EID: 84901666052     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am500882y     Document Type: Article

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