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Fabrics with Tunable Oleophobicity
Author(s) -
Choi Wonjae,
Tuteja Anish,
Chhatre Shreerang,
Mabry Joseph M.,
Cohen Robert E.,
McKinley Gareth H.
Publication year - 2009
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.200802502
Subject(s) - materials science , wetting , coating , contact angle , dip coating , nanotechnology , texture (cosmology) , composite material , artificial intelligence , computer science , image (mathematics)
A simple “dip‐coating” process that imbues oleophobicity to various surfaces that inherently possess re‐entrant texture, such as commercially available fabrics, is reported. These dip‐coated fabric surfaces exhibit reversible, deformation‐dependent, tunable wettability, including the capacity to switch their surface wetting properties (between super‐repellent and super‐wetting) against a wide range of polar and nonpolar liquids.