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Superhydrophobic electrospun POSS-PMMA copolymer fibres with highly ordered nanofibrillar and surface structures
Yuhua Xue1, Hongxia Wang, Dingshan Yu
1State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|October 21, 2009
Abstract:
A POSS-PMMA copolymer has been synthesised by conventional free-radical polymerisation reaction. Uniform electrospun fibres from this copolymer showed a water contact angle as high as 165 degrees with a sliding angle as low as 6 degrees . For the first time, we found that the electrospun fibres had a bundled nanofibril secondary structure with an ordered POSS morphology on the fibre surface.
