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Highly ordered materials with ultra‐low surface energies: Polyelectrolyte–surfactant, complexes with fluorinated surfactants
Author(s) -
Antonietti Markus,
Henke Susanne,
Thünemann Andreas
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.19960080106
Subject(s) - materials science , pulmonary surfactant , polyelectrolyte , anisotropy , nanotechnology , optical anisotropy , chemical engineering , chemical physics , polarization (electrochemistry) , polymer science , liquid crystal , optics , chemistry , composite material , polymer , optoelectronics , physics , engineering
Are non‐stick surfaces “the chemical analogue of the perpetual motion machine”, i.e., unattainable? Cheap and simple‐to‐produce systems with ultra‐low surface energy—and so on the way towards this ideal—are polyelectrolyte–surfactant complexes. Polarization micrographs of such systems involving fluorinated surfactants are presented (see also the cover picture) that reveal highly ordered microphases with high optical anisotropy that can be easily oriented. X‐ray and AFM data are also reported.