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Superhydrophobic/superhydrophilic surfaces from a carbon nanotube based composite coating

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A facile method for forming a MWNT-based composite coating with behavior of the superhydrophilic/superhydrophobic transition is demonstrated. The change of the surface microstructure and the surface chemical composition arising from increasing temperatures determines the surface wettability of the resulting composite coating. The coating surface shows the superhydrophobic property at 150, 200, and 360°, and displays superhydrophilic performance at 300°C.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, 730000, P.R. China

    Xue-Hu Men, Zhao-Zhu Zhang, Jin Yang, Kun Wang & Wei Jiang

  2. Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, P.R. China

    Xue-Hu Men & Jin Yang

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Men, XH., Zhang, ZZ., Yang, J. et al. Superhydrophobic/superhydrophilic surfaces from a carbon nanotube based composite coating. Appl. Phys. A 98, 275–280 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-009-5425-6

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