Facile Fabrication of Robust Superhydrophobic Epoxy Film with Polyamine Dispersed Carbon Nanotubes

Autor:	Patricia T.C. Lee, Chih-Wei Chiu, Jiang-Jen Lin, Ling-Yu Chang, Chao-Po Hsu
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Isobutylene Nanocomposite Fabrication Materials science Carbon nanotube Epoxy law.invention Contact angle chemistry.chemical_compound Surface coating chemistry law visual_art visual_art.visual_art_medium General Materials Science Composite material Curing (chemistry)
Zdroj:	ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 5:538-545
ISSN:	1944-8252 1944-8244
DOI:	10.1021/am400132p
Popis:	Nanocomposite films of superhydrophobic surface are fabricated from the dispersion of unmodified carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and hydrophobic poly(isobutylene)–amine (PIB–amine). The PIB–amine prepared from the amidation of poly(isobutylene)-succinic anhydride and poly(oxypropylene)–amines is essential for dispersing the originally entangled CNTs into the debundled CNTs as observed by TEM. A robust CNTs/epoxy nanocomposite film with high dimensional stability is made by subsequent curing with epoxy resin. The self-standing film exhibits a superhydrophobic property, with water droplet contact angle > 152° due to the CNTs controlled alignment on the surface forming micrometer-size plateaus, as observed by SEM. The preparation of PIB–amine/CNTs dispersion and subsequently curing into a superhydrophobic CNTs/epoxy film is relatively simple and can potentially be applied to large surface coating.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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