Hydrophobic sol-gel coatings based on polydimethylsiloxane for self-cleaning applications

Materials and Design

Volumn 86, Issue , 2015, Pages 855-862

  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; Dynamic hydrophobicity; Erosion resistant; Self cleaning coatings; Sliding angles

Indexed keywords

COATINGS; CONTACT ANGLE; DURABILITY; EROSION; HYDROPHOBICITY; SILICONES; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS;

EROSION RESISTANT; FUNCTIONAL ADDITIVES; SELF-CLEANING COATINGS; SLIDING ANGLE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; SUPER-HYDROPHOBIC SURFACES; TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; TETRAETHYL ORTHOSILICATES;

CLEANING;

EID: 84942235958     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2015.07.174     Document Type: Article

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