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Fabricating Superhydrophobic Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Applications
Published on: August 28, 2015
Porous materials show superhydrophobic to superhydrophilic switching
Neil J Shirtcliffe1, Glen McHale, Michael I Newton
1School of Biomedical and Natural Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, UK. neil.shirtcliffe@ntu.ac.uk
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 22, 2005
Abstract:
Switching between superhydrophobicity and superhydrophilicity in porous materials was predicted theoretically and demonstrated experimentally with the example of thermally induced contact angle change; tunability of this system was also demonstrated.
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