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Superhydrophobic bio-fibre surfaces via tailored grafting architecture

Daniel Nyström, Josefina Lindqvist, Emma Östmark, Anders Hult, Eva Malmström

Chemical Communications · 2006 · 148 citations · 27 references

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Abstract

Superhydrophobic bio-fibre surfaces with a micro-nano-binary surface structure have been achieved via the surface-confined grafting of glycidyl methacrylate, using a branched "graft-on-graft" architecture, followed by post-functionalisation to obtain fluorinated brushes.

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