Issue 15, 2016

Ultralight open cell polymer sponges with advanced properties by PPX CVD coating

Abstract

Ultralight polyacrylate sponges were prepared from dispersions of short electrospun polymer fibres by freeze drying and coated with poly(p-xylylene) (PPX) by chemical vapour deposition (CVD). The PPX coating of the sponges increased the compression strength, the water contact angle, and the solvent resistance significantly without significant alteration of the sponge morphology.

Graphical abstract: Ultralight open cell polymer sponges with advanced properties by PPX CVD coating

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
24 Feb 2016
Accepted
21 Mar 2016
First published
21 Mar 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Polym. Chem., 2016,7, 2759-2764

Ultralight open cell polymer sponges with advanced properties by PPX CVD coating

G. Duan, S. Jiang, T. Moss, S. Agarwal and A. Greiner, Polym. Chem., 2016, 7, 2759 DOI: 10.1039/C6PY00339G

This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence. You can use material from this article in other publications, without requesting further permission from the RSC, provided that the correct acknowledgement is given and it is not used for commercial purposes.

To request permission to reproduce material from this article in a commercial publication, please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

If you are an author contributing to an RSC publication, you do not need to request permission provided correct acknowledgement is given.

If you are the author of this article, you do not need to request permission to reproduce figures and diagrams provided correct acknowledgement is given. If you want to reproduce the whole article in a third-party commercial publication (excluding your thesis/dissertation for which permission is not required) please go to the Copyright Clearance Center request page.

Read more about how to correctly acknowledge RSC content.

Social activity

Spotlight

Advertisements