School of Chemistry: Recent submissions
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Waterborne all-polymeric colloidal 'raspberry' particles with controllable hydrophobicity and water droplet adhesion properties
Published 2016-01-29Wepresent a superhydrophobic coating made fromwaterborne, all-polymeric ‘raspberry’ particles, composed of a micrometric spherical core decorated with a corona of nanometric spherical particles. As-cast particles produced ...Open AccessArticle -
Patterned chemisorption of proteins by thin polymer film dewetting
Published 2013-01-10The covalent attachment of proteins and their patterning on surfaces are important in the bio-medical industry, for use in applications such as bio-sensing and biocompatible medical devices. In this work, proteins are ...Open AccessArticle -
Micropatterned Surfaces for Atmospheric Water Condensation via Controlled Radical Polymerization and Thin Film Dewetting
Published 2015-09-15Inspired by an example found in nature, the design of patterned surfaces with chemical and topographical contrast for the collection of water from the atmosphere has been of intense interest in recent years. Herein we ...Open AccessArticle -
Tunable Nanopatterns via the Constrained Dewetting of Polymer Brushes
Published 2013-07-29Coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations were used to investigate the mor- phology and dynamics of nano-patterns formed by grafted polymer brushes on a non- adsorbing substrate as a result of constrained dewetting. ...Open AccessArticle -
Durable Superhydrophobic Surfaces Via Spontaneous Wrinkling of Teflon
Published 2016-02-24We report the fabrication of both single-scale and hierarchical superhydrophobic surfaces, created by exploiting the spontaneous wrinkling of a rigid Teflon AF film on two types of shrinkable plastic substrates. Sub-100 ...Open AccessArticle