Robust superhydrophobic bridged silsesquioxane aerogels with tunable performances and their applications

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2016-2024

  Wang, Zhen ^a,b   Wang, Dong ^a,b   Qian, Zhenchao ^a,b   Guo, Jing ^a,b   Dong, Haixia ^a   Zhao, Ning ^a,c   Xu, Jian ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NONE   (China)

Author keywords

aerogel; alkoxy group; bridged silsesquioxane; oil water separation; robustness

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OIL SHALE; POROUS MATERIALS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

ACOUSTIC MATERIALS; ALKOXY GROUP; HIGHLY POROUS MATERIALS; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; OIL/WATER SEPARATION; SILSESQUIOXANES; THIOL-ENE CHEMISTRIES; TUNABLE PERFORMANCE;

AEROGELS;

EID: 84921810630     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5077765     Document Type: Article

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