Water-repellent, self-cleaning and stain resistant textiles are of interest for industrial applications. Anthraquinone reactive dyes were covalently grafted onto cotton fabric surfaces obtaining bright colors with good wash-fastness properties and giving rise to breathable superhydrophobic textiles with self-cleaning properties.

The modern rhythm of human life leads to well-known problems, which are air, water and soil pollution climate warming. An increase in the power industries vehicles not only atmospheric by-products incomplete fuel combustion but also various microscopic particles that form aerosols, carry an obvious danger health pollute buildings’ facades. environmentally friendly building material with a hybri...

Advanced coatings are essential to modern technologies as they optimise surface characteristics for different application scenarios. Transparent and self-cleaning increasingly used protective various applications, such foldable touchscreens, windows, solar panels. Moreover, incorporating other functionalities high hardness, wear resistance, flexibility into transparent is important broadening t...

The self-cleaning function of superhydrophobic surfaces is conventionally attributed to the removal of contaminating particles by impacting or rolling water droplets, which implies the action of external forces such as gravity. Here, we demonstrate a unique self-cleaning mechanism whereby the contaminated superhydrophobic surface is exposed to condensing water vapor, and the contaminants are au...

We report that hydrophilic polyurethane mushroom shaped microfiber arrays possess wet self-cleaning ability using the lotus effect as biologically inspired synthetic fibrillar adhesives. In comparison with a flat surface made of the same polyurethane, the fiber array exhibited almost 100% wet self-cleaning without any degradation of adhesive strength. We attribute this cleaning ability to the m...

Bio-inspired self-cleaning surfaces have found industrial applications in oil–water separation, stain resistant textiles, anti-biofouling paints in ships etc. Interestingly, self-cleaning metal–organic framework (MOF) materials having high water contact angles and corrosion resistance have not been realized so far. To address this issue, we have used the fundamentals of self-assembly to expose ...