Bionic smart recycled paper endowed with amphiphobic, photochromic, and UV rewritable properties.

ABSTRACT: The single-use of large volumes of paper has become a serious issue which is depleting our resources and damaging the environment. It is of great significance and challenging to adopt simple, reasonable and practical methods to prepare functional recyclable paper. In this article, inspired by pleochromatic creatures and plant leaves' special wettability, a series of photochromic amphiphobic recycled paper (PAR _i ) products was successfully prepared by adding gourd-like modified tungsten trioxide (MTT) to waste paper pulp. The results show that PAR_2-7 has excellent lyophobic performance and amazing photochromic properties. It is worth noting that PAR₇ has an impressive amphiphobic behavior, and its surface water contact angle (WCA) and oil contact ang

SUBMITTER: Zhang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9419801 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature