A polymer coating which is sticky yet repulsive to water and slippery yet attractive for oils

Eleanor P. Milnes-Smith; Corinne A. Stone; Susan Perkin

doi:10.1039/C9CC08896B

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A polymer coating which is sticky yet repulsive to water and slippery yet attractive for oils†

Eleanor P. Milnes-Smith,^a Corinne A. Stone^b and Susan Perkin

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E-mail: Susan.perkin@chem.ox.ac.uk

^b Dstl, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK

Abstract

A one-step process has been developed to produce a polymer coating which is hydrophobic and oleophilic, but which oil slides off and water adheres to at all tilt angles – including when vertically inclined or inverted. The polymer is transparent, and the plasma coating process is independent of substrate composition and geometry.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC08896B
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 14 Nov 2019
Accepted: 03 Feb 2020
First published: 03 Feb 2020

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Chem. Commun., 2020,56, 2877-2880

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E. P. Milnes-Smith, C. A. Stone and S. Perkin, Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 2877 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC08896B

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A polymer coating which is sticky yet repulsive to water and slippery yet attractive for oils†

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