Environmentally Friendly Super-Water-Repellent Fabrics Prepared from Water-Based Suspensions

Cai, Ronggang;Glinel, Karine;De Smet, David;Vanneste, Myriam;Jonas, Alain;et.al.
(2018) ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces — Vol. 10, n° 18, p. 15346-15351 (2018)

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We report on a facile, versatile, and environmentally friendly method to prepare superhydrophobic fabrics by a simple dipcoating method in water-based suspensions and emulsions. All the materials used are fluorine-free and commercially available at a large scale. The method can be easily integrated into standard textile industrial processes and has a strong potential for the mass production of environmentally friendly superwater-repellent fabrics. The produced fabrics show good resistance to machine washing and acidic or alkaline treatments. In addition, it is shown that superhydrophobicity can be quantitatively predicted based on the combination of the roughness of the fabric and of the fiber coating.
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Cai, R., Glinel, K., De Smet, D., Vanneste, M., Mannu, N., Kartheuser, B., Nysten, B., & Jonas, A. (2018). Environmentally Friendly Super-Water-Repellent Fabrics Prepared from Water-Based Suspensions. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 10(18), 15346-15351. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.8b02707 (Original work published 2018)