A polymer coating which is sticky yet repulsive to water and slippery yet attractive for oils.
Eleanor P Milnes-SmithCorinne A StoneSusan PerkinPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2020)
A one-step process has been developed to produce a polymer coating which is hydrophobic and oleophilic, but which oil slides off and water adheres to at all tilt angles - including when vertically inclined or inverted. The polymer is transparent, and the plasma coating process is independent of substrate composition and geometry.
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