Preparation and characterization of polyvinylidene fluoride/graphene superhydrophobic fibrous films

Polymers

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1444-1463

  Moradi, Rasoul ^a   Karimi Sabet, Javad ^b   Shariaty Niassar, Mojtaba ^a   Koochaki, Mohammad A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Electrospun film; Hydrophobicity; Nanofiber; PVDF graphene nanocomposite

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE FILMS; FILM PREPARATION; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; GRAPHENE; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOFIBERS; STRAIN; STRESSES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ELECTROSPUNS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; NET-LIKE STRUCTURES; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; STRESS-STRAIN TESTS; SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY; WATER CONTACT ANGLE; WETTABILITY TESTS;

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84940565478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym7081444     Document Type: Article

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