Correction: Water-based non-stick hydrophobic coatings

Polystyrene/wood composites and hydrophobic wood coatings from water-based hydrophilic-hydrophobic block copolymers

D. J. Gardner Department of Forest Management and Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA Abstract The combination of synthetic thermoplastic polymers and wood is normally problematic because wood surfaces are hydrophilic while typical thermoplastic polymers are hydrophobic. A possible solution is to use block copolymer coupling agents. In this work...

Tilting angle and water slippage over hydrophobic coatings.

Hydrophobic coatings, such as octadecyltrichlorosilane or n-alkyl monolayers, enhance the slippage of liquids on solid walls. For a given alkyl chain length, the main structural parameter for homogeneous coatings is the tilt angle between coating molecules and the surface normal. In this paper, ab initio calculations are used to calculate the equilibrium configuration of coating molecules, show...

Infrared emitters dry water-based coatings efficiently

After industrial coating processes lacquer has to to be dried with the help of heat. Often this is done by hot air or infrared systems. Compared to other technologies Infrared heat needs less space and provides energy exactly where it is needed. Infrared drying has the best results with material which has a simple geometric shape. But if the oven is designed appropriate to the requirements lacq...

Mussel-inspired hydrophobic coatings for water-repellent textiles and oil removal.

A series of catechol derivatives with a different number of linear alkyl chain substituents, and different length, have been shown to polymerize in the presence of aqueous ammonia and air, yielding hydrophobic coatings that present the ability to provide robust and efficient water repellency on weaved textiles, including hydrophilic cotton. The polymerization strategy presented exemplifies an a...

Enhanced nucleate boiling on horizontal hydrophobic-hydrophilic carbon nanotube coatings