Plant-Inspired Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembly of Super-Hydrophobic Coating for Oil Spill Cleanup.
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SUBMITTER: Ding L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6960575 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
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Plant-Inspired Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembly of Super-Hydrophobic Coating for Oil Spill Cleanup.
Ding Liping L Wang Yanqing Y Xiong Jinxin J Lu Huiying H Zeng Mingjian M Zhu Peng P Ma Haiyan H
Polymers 20191210 12
A versatile, facile, energy-saving, low-cost and plant-inspired self-assembly strategy was used to prepare super-hydrophobic coating in this study. Concretely, an appealing super-hydrophobicity surface was obtained by designing a molecular building block phytic acid (PA)-Fe (III) complex to anchor the substrate and hydrophobic thiol groups (HT). The facile and green modification method can be applied to variety of substrates. The as-prepared PA-Fe (III)-HT coated melamine composite sponge posses ...[more]
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