Polymer-Based Superhydrophobic Coatings and Films: Fabrication Principles and Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 476
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to consider contributing a paper on superhydrophobic materials to the Special Issue “Polymer-Based Superhydrophobic Coatings and Films: Fabrication Principles and Applications”. Superhydrophobic materials are promising to solve some actual problems, such as anti-icing, anticorrosion and anti-biofouling protection of metal constructions, preventing the decay of wood products, creation of bactericidal coatings, storage of architecture monuments, fabrication of antivandal coatings, etc. However, the low stability of the heterogeneous wetting regime, poor mechanical durability, and complicated pathways for the creation of superhydrophobic coatings are the limiting factors of their wide application.
The polymers as hydrophobic agents have a number of advantages over low molecular weight modifiers, such as a wide variety of chemical structures, compositions, architecture, molecular mass characteristics, as well as the possibility of forming diverse interactions with the functional groups of a substrate. This Special Issue aims to collect the original research articles and reviews on recent advantages in the field of novel fabrication strategies for superhydrophobic polymer coatings and the characterization of their functional properties and perspective applications.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Evgeny V. Bryuzgin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- superhydrophobicity
- polymer coatings
- wettability
- stable Cassie–Baxter regime
- abrasion stability
- corrosion resistance
- self-cleaning
- oil–water separation
- climate stability
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