A general route to transform normal hydrophilic cloths into superhydrophobic surfaces
- 13 February 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 18,p. 1849-1851
- https://doi.org/10.1039/b616778k
Abstract
Herein, we describe a simple and inexpensive method for forming superhydrophobic cloths with the highest water contact angle of close to 180°, in which normal commercial cloths serving as pristine materials are modified with suitable gold micro/nanostructures.Keywords
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