Development of durable self-cleaning coatings using organic-inorganic hybrid sol-gel method

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 344, Issue , 2015, Pages 205-212

  Kumar, Divya ^a   Wu, Xinghua ^a,b   Fu, Qitao ^a   Ho, Jeffrey Weng Chye ^a,b   Kanhere, Pushkar D ^b   Li, Lin ^c   Chen, Zhong ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Contact angle; Self cleaning; Sliding angle; Sol gel; Superhydrophobic coating; Surface morphology

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ADHESION; CLEANING; CONTACT ANGLE; ELASTIC MODULI; FILLERS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC-INORGANIC MATERIALS; SILICA; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; TRIBOLOGY; WEATHERING;

ADHESION TO SUBSTRATE; MECHANICAL ABRASION; ORGANIC-INORGANIC HYBRID; SELF CLEANING; SELF-CLEANING COATINGS; SLIDING ANGLE; SUPERHYDROPHOBIC COATINGS; TETRAETHYL ORTHOSILICATES;

INORGANIC COATINGS;

EID: 84929333416     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2015.03.105     Document Type: Article

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