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Fabricating Superhydrophobic Polymeric Materials for Biomedical Applications
Published on: August 28, 2015
New responsive property of poly(epsilon-caprolactone) as the thermal switch from superhydrophobic to superhydrophilic
Shuxin Hu1, Xinyu Cao, Yanlin Song
1Centre of Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China100080.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 10, 2008
Abstract:
A reversible switch between superhydrophobicity at low temperature and superhydrophilicity at high temperature was fabricated by coating poly(epsilon-caprolactone) on a rough substrate, which resulted from the combination of the different adaptability of the polymer chain upon crystalline/amorphous phase transition and the optimized roughness.
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