Superhydrophobic engineering materials provide a rapid and simple route for highly efficient self-driven crude oil spill cleanup.

ABSTRACT: Traditional superhydrophobic material use depends on two processes: creating a rough structure on a material surface and modifying the rough surface with low surface energy materials. However, common preparation methods are time-consuming, complex and cost-ineffective. Furthermore, these methods usually rely on chemicals, and evidently that will restrict mass preparation and application of superhydrophobic materials. This study reports a simple polypropylene (PP) solution-based process for producing PP hierarchical structures on commercial copper mesh (low surface energy materials), without modifying the low surface energy materials. The hierarchical structures of copper meshes, surface modified with PP, can be rationally controlled by optimizing the PP concentration. The obtained copper m

SUBMITTER: Xu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9089833 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature