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Fabricating Superhydrophobic Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Applications
Published on: August 28, 2015
Superhydrophobic bio-fibre surfaces via tailored grafting architecture
Daniel Nyström1, Josefina Lindqvist, Emma Ostmark
1Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH School of Chemical Science and Engineering, Teknikringen 56-58, SE-100 44, Stockholm, Sweden.
Abstract:
Superhydrophobic bio-fibre surfaces with a micro-nano-binary surface structure have been achieved via the surface-confined grafting of glycidyl methacrylate, using a branched "graft-on-graft" architecture, followed by post-functionalisation to obtain fluorinated brushes.

