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Title: | Polycyclopentene crystal-decorated carbon nanotubes by convenient large-scale in situ polymerization and their lotus leaf-like superhydrophobic films. |
Authors: | Ye, Zhibin Xu, Lixin Huang, Lingqi Meng, Nan Shu, Yang Gu, Zhiyong |
Keywords: | carbon nanotube;crystallization;polycyclopentene;polymer crystal;;superhydrophobic films |
Issue Date: | 22-Dec-2016 |
Abstract: | In situ Pd-catalyzed cyclopentene polymerization in the presence of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) is demonstrated to effectively render, on a large scale, polycyclopentene-crystal-decorated MWCNTs. Controlling the catalyst loading and/or time in the polymerization offers a convenient tuning of the polymer content and the morphology of the decorated MWCNTs. Appealingly, films made of the decorated carbon nanotubes through simple vacuum filtration show the characteristic lotus-leaf-like superhydrophobicity with high water contact angle (>150°), low contact angle hysteresis (<10°), and low water adhesion, while being electrically conductive. This is the first demonstration of the direct fabrication of lotus-leaf-like superhydrophobic films with solution-grown polymer-crystal-decorated carbon nanotube. |
URI: | https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/2694 |
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