Issue 7, 2016

Self-healing fluoropolymer brushes as highly polymer-repellent coatings

Abstract

The fouling of surfaces by organic polymers can be strongly reduced by applying a 75 nm covalently bound fluorinated polymer brush onto the surface. This strong reduction can be repaired, even more than 10 times, after the polymer brush has been damaged (e.g. by a strong base) using the self-repairing character of these brushes via molecular reorganization at the surface–air interface at slightly elevated temperatures.

Graphical abstract: Self-healing fluoropolymer brushes as highly polymer-repellent coatings

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
16 Nov 2015
Accepted
18 Jan 2016
First published
27 Jan 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016,4, 2408-2412

Author version available

Self-healing fluoropolymer brushes as highly polymer-repellent coatings

Z. Wang and H. Zuilhof, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2016, 4, 2408 DOI: 10.1039/C5TA09209D

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