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1Functional Nanomaterials Laboratory, Center for Micro/Nanomaterials and Technology and Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongguancundonglu 29, Haidianqu, Beijing 100190, China. jhhe@mail.ipc.ac.cn.
Abstract:
Unusual antifogging antireflective thin films with a maximum transmittance of 98.9% have been realized surprisingly by depositing a hollow silica nanoparticle layer on top of an antifogging polymer layer, which was considered as an irrational design according to the previous knowledge.
