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Water‐Proof Protection: Highly Stretchable Superhydrophobic Composite Coating Based on Self‐Adaptive Deformation of Hierarchical Structures (Small 19/2017)
Author(s) -
Hu Xin,
Tang Changyu,
He Zhoukun,
Shao Hong,
Xu Keqin,
Mei Jun,
Lau WoonMing
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201770104
Subject(s) - materials science , contact angle , composite number , composite material , elastomer , coating , superhydrophobic coating , polybutadiene , natural rubber , deformation (meteorology) , carbon black , substrate (aquarium) , polymer , copolymer , oceanography , geology
A highly stretchable superhydrophobic surface is prepared by Changyu Tang and co‐workers in article number 1602353 , through a facile spray‐coating of nano‐carbon black/polybutadiene elastomeric composite on a rubber substrate. The hierarchical roughness of the resulting composite coating exhibits a self‐adaptive deformation behavior and enables the surface to maintain a superhydrophobic property (water contact angle ≈170° and sliding angle <4°) at a stretching strain of up to 1000%.