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Inside Front Cover: Superhydrophobic Surfaces Generated from Water‐Borne Dispersions of Hierarchically Assembled Nanoparticles Coated with a Reversibly Switchable Shell (Adv. Mater. 1/2008)
Author(s) -
Motornov M.,
Sheparovych R.,
Lupitskyy R.,
MacWilliams E.,
Minko S.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200790107
Subject(s) - materials science , nanoparticle , polystyrene , superhydrophobic coating , fabrication , coating , aqueous solution , nanotechnology , suspension (topology) , chemical engineering , shell (structure) , composite material , polymer , organic chemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , chemistry , mathematics , pathology , homotopy , pure mathematics , engineering
On p. 200, Sergiy Minko and co‐workers report on the fabrication of a superhydrophobic coating from aqueous dispersions of hybrid responsive nanoparticles with no application of surfactants and organic solvents. A suspension of the particles forms a textured hydrophilic coating upon casting. Heating above the glass transition temperature of polystyrene, or treatment in acidic water, resulted in backward and forward switching between the superhydrophobic and the hydrophilic material, respectively.