Superhydrophobic polymers

Mélanie Wolfs (1) , Thierry Darmanin (1) , Frédéric Guittard (1)

1 Surfaces & Interfaces

Antiwetting materials have been widely studied because of their potential applications in several fields. Polymeric materials are of special interest because they provide advantages including ease of processability and cost. This article introduces basic wetting theories and overviews the main techniques to produce superhydrophobic polymers, such as templating, molding, self-assembly, soft lithography, layer-by-layer deposition, precipitation and crystallization, electrospinning, and electrochemical polymerization. For each method, representative examples as well as practical advantages and disadvantages are also presented.

Domaines: Matériaux

Mélanie Wolfs, Thierry Darmanin, Frédéric Guittard. Superhydrophobic polymers. Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, in print, 2013, ⟨10.1002/0471440264.pst594⟩. ⟨hal-00844154⟩