Fast and reversible photo-responsive wettability on TiO<sub>2</sub> based hybrid surfaces

Gwendoline Petroffe, Chao Wang, Xavier Sallenave, Gjergji Sini, Fabrice Goubard, Sébastien Peralta

Journal of Materials Chemistry A · 2015 · 23 citations · 59 references

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Abstract

A hybrid surface exhibiting a fast and reversible switch between hydrophobic and hydrophilic states was prepared by spin-coating a porous TiO<sub>2</sub> layer by a mixture of TiO<sub>2</sub> nanoparticles with 11-(4-phenylazo)phenoxy undecanoic acid (denoted as the AzoC11 acid).

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