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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 42, Issue 22, Pages 18208-18216Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8nj04275f
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51671105, 51705244]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20170790]
- Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds [1701200B]
- General Project of Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education [Y201737320]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
- NUAA Innovation Program for Graduate Education [kfjj20170604, kfjj20170608]
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Superhydrophobic coatings treated as surface functional materials are endowed with great application potential with respect to self-cleaning, drag-reduction, anti-icing, etc. In this study, we fabricated a highly flexible and mechanically robust superhydrophobic F-SiO2@PDMS coating through a facile layer-by-layer strategy. It was demonstrated that PDMS played a crucial role of binder for immobilizing the F-SiO2 nanoparticles and improving their adhesion to substrate materials. Meanwhile, the PDMS layer endowed the superhydrophobic coating with superior mechanical flexibility. Finally, the as-constructed superhydrophobic coating exhibited excellent water-repellency with a high water contact angle of 156.5 degrees and low sliding angle of only 2.0 degrees. Furthermore, the water adhesion strength on the superhydrophobic coating was only 2 mu N, indicating its ultralow viscous resistance to dynamic moving water droplets. The superhydrophobic F-SiO2@PDMS coating was independent of the substrates without any limitations, and they exhibited high flexibility and mechanical robustness with the elongation ratio reaching 83.3% under the conditions of high superhydrophobicity. Also, the superhydrophobic coating exhibited strong durability under the severe environments of corrosion and mechanical abrasion. Thus, the as-fabricated highly flexible and mechanically robust superhydrophobic F-SiO2@PDMS coating is considered to be an ideal candidate for applications in the fields of self-cleaning and drag-reduction.
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