Substituted silacyclohexenes, generated through silene-diene [4 + 2] cycloaddition reactions, undergo Lewis acid promoted Sakurai type reactions with acetals to afford, following oxidation of the resultant fluorosilane, 1,4-diols with four contiguous chiral centres.

The scaling resistance of the CF4 plasma treated superhydrophobic surface with suspended wetting is superior to fluorosilane modified pinned wetting.

A vapor phase deposition system was designed to coat uniform, conformal and ultrathin coatings of fluoropolymer and fluorosilane thin films inside silicon nanochannels. Surface modifications using vapor phase deposition become increasingly important for biomedical micro/nanoelectromechanical system BioMEMS/NEMS applications and have advantages over liquid phase deposition since the vapor can pe...

Ultrathin coatings of fluorosilane films for silicon and polydimethylsiloxane PDMS nanochannels are desirable to control the hydrophobicity of the surface and reduce or prevent undesired protein adsorption or cell interactions critical for the performance of most biomedical micro/nanodevices. Surface modifications using vapor-phase deposition become increasingly important for some biomedical na...

Conventional methods for improving the hydrophobicity of polypropylene (PP) membranes to prevent wetting phenomena require complex pretreatment procedures in order activate surface enabling reaction with fluorosilane (FS)-based materials. This study successfully prepared PP membrane contactors enhanced through a simple single-step dip-coating method using perfluoroether-grafted silanes CO2 capt...