Novel TiO2 thin film with non-UV activated superwetting and antifogging behaviours

Wee Yong Gan; Sai Wei Lam; Ken Chiang; Rose Amal; Huijun Zhao; Michael Paul Brungs

doi:10.1039/B618280A

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Novel TiO₂ thin film with non-UV activated superwetting and antifogging behaviours†

Wee Yong Gan,^a Sai Wei Lam,^a Ken Chiang,^a Rose Amal,*^a Huijun Zhao^b and Michael Paul Brungs^a

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^a ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, School of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, NSW 2052, Sydney, Australia
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^b Centre for Aquatic Processes and Pollution, School of Environmental and Applied Science, Griffith University, PMB 50 GCMC, Bundall, Australia
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Abstract

Breakthrough development of TiO₂ thin film with non-UV activated superwettability and antifogging behaviours that remained stable, even after 15 cycles of continuous wetting and drying, have been successfully fabricated via multilayer assembly of TiO₂ nanoparticles and polyethylene glycol (PEG).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/B618280A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 14 Dec 2006
Accepted: 02 Feb 2007
First published: 09 Feb 2007

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J. Mater. Chem., 2007,17, 952-954

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Novel TiO₂ thin film with non-UV activated superwetting and antifogging behaviours

W. Y. Gan, S. W. Lam, K. Chiang, R. Amal, H. Zhao and M. P. Brungs, J. Mater. Chem., 2007, 17, 952 DOI: 10.1039/B618280A

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