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Published on: February 28, 2014
Superhydrophobic silica aerogels by fluorination at the gel stage
Anna Roig1, Elies Molins, Elisenda Rodríguez
1Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus de la UAB, 08193-Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain. roig@icmab.es.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 19, 2004
Abstract:
Superhydrophobic silica aerogels are obtained by surface modification of standard silica gels prepared by a two-step process with a heavily fluorinated silyl chloride followed by supercritical evacuation of the solvent.
