Directional water-transfer through fabrics induced by asymmetric wettability

Hongxia Wang; Jie Ding; Liming Dai; Xungai Wang; Tong Lin

doi:10.1039/C0JM02364G

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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Issue 37, 2010

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Directional water-transfer through fabrics induced by asymmetric wettability

Hongxia Wang,^a Jie Ding,^b Liming Dai,^c Xungai Wang^a and Tong Lin*^a

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Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
E-mail: tong.lin@deakin.edu.au
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Human Protection and Performance Division, Defence Science & Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia

Department of Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA

J. Mater. Chem., 2010,20, 7938-7940

DOI: 10.1039/C0JM02364G
Received 22 Jul 2010, Accepted 26 Jul 2010
First published online 11 Aug 2010

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Fabrics having an interesting unidirectional water-transfer effect have been prepared by a special coating technique to create a wettability gradient across the fabric thickness, and the treated fabrics also show considerably different breakthrough pressures on the two fabric sides.

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Video 1: from the hydrophilic side
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Video 2: from the hydrophobic side
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Video 3: on a table
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Experimental section, FTIR, SEM, TEM, contact angles, XPS, XRD, UV transmittance and videos of directional water transfer through the fabric
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