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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 344, Issue 2, Pages 584-587Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2010.01.024
Keywords
Superhydrophobicity; Poly(lactic acid) (PLA); UV photo-grafting; Silica particle; Sol-gel process
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- Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE) [RTI04-01-04]
- Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) [B0008557] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Superhydrophobic poly(lactic acid) (PLA) fabrics are prepared by UV photo-grafting of hydrophobic silica particles possessing vinyl functional groups on the surfaces, which is a novel one-step process to provide surface with roughness as well as hydrophobicity simultaneously. For this purpose, hydrophobic silica particles with vinyl groups and average diameter of 1.51 +/- 0.05 mu m are synthesized via a sol-gel process. The silica particles possessing vinyl groups are found to be effectively immobilized on PLA fabrics via UV photo-grafting reaction. The water contact angle of the treated PLA fabric is measured to be similar to 150 degrees, which is high enough to exhibit the Lotus effect as a result of the superhydrophobicity. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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