| Smart, Self-Cleaning Coating Based Ultra-Hydrophobic Copolymer Nanocomposites |
| Paper ID : 1077-ICEE (R4) |
| Authors |
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Saber Ahmed Ibrahim *1, Ahmad Mohamed Labeeb2 1polymer and packaging materials department
National research centre 233 Elbehooth str., National Research Centre |
| Abstract |
| Ultra-hydrophobic (UH) surfaces have gained a great attention due to the high potential for tremendous applications. Simplified preparation technique was used with low-cost value to produce UH nanocomposites coating. Copolymer nanocomposites have numerous advantages as a flexible coating through the huge covering volume/area. The molecular weight of prepared copolymer was defined with gel permeation chromatography. UH coating films were investigated with differential scanning calorimetry, dynamic laser scattering, transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscope, and dielectrically study. The contact angle of UH coating film and surface area were measured. Copolymer coating with 9% loaded ratio of nanocomposite given 132ᵒ contact angel with excellent nano particle size, and surface area. The zeta potential results indicated to perfect stability of ecofriendly emulsified coating. The main aim of research was verified the ability of prepared copolymer nanocomposites as a UH self-cleaning coating film on different applications especially solar panel and packaging substrates. |
| Keywords |
| ultra-hydrophobic; coating film; polymer nanocomposites; self-cleaning; nanosilica |
| Status: Accepted |