Functional textiles with smart properties: their fabrications and sustainable applications

Y Zhang, X Xia, K Ma, G Xia, M Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Benefiting from inherent lightweight, flexibility, and good adaptability to human body,
functional textiles are attracting tremendous attention to cope with wearable issues in …

Intelligent designs from nature: biomimetic applications in wood technology

Y Chen, B Dang, C Wang, Y Wang, Y Yang… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biological systems, adapted through millions of years of evolution with various functional
trade-offs, have emerged as a crucial source of inspiration for the design of advanced …

Rapid dipping preparation of superhydrophobic TiO2 cotton fabric for multifunctional highly efficient oil-water separation and photocatalytic degradation

J Yang, T He, X Li, R Wang, S Wang, Y Zhao… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2023 - Elsevier
In past decades, the frequent emergence of offshore oil accidents and the increasing of
soluble pollutants have caused enormous damage to the ecosystem. It is urgent to develop …

Fabrication of coral-reef structured nano silica for self-cleaning and super-hydrophobic textile applications

AS Anjum, KC Sun, M Ali, R Riaz, SH Jeong - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Non wettable surfaces have attracted attention for their promising potential in anti-fouling
and self-cleaning applications. However, the complex fabrication and loss of super …

Facile design of a stable and inorganic underwater superoleophobic copper mesh modified by self-assembly sodium silicate and aluminum oxide for oil/water …

H Cao, Y Liu - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Separation meshes with special wettability for oil/water separation have drawn much
research attention and the preparation of superhydrophobic or underwater superoleophobic …

Preparation of superhydrophobic coating with anti-corrosion and anti-fouling properties on the surface of low manganese steel by electrodeposition

L Zhang, X Liu, J Yan, Z Li, S Huang, Y Weng… - Surface and Coatings …, 2023 - Elsevier
As a rare earth slow-release agent, the yttrium (Y) element was often used in anti-corrosion
coatings at high temperatures. Still, its application in anti-corrosion coatings at room …

Comparison of electrospun titania and zinc oxide nanofibers for perovskite solar cells and photocatalytic degradation of methyl orange dye

Z Arshad, M Ali, EJ Lee, M Alshareef, MM Alsowayigh… - Catalysts, 2023 - mdpi.com
ZnO and TiO2 are both well-known electron transport materials; however, an exact
comparison of their performance, when fabricated under the same synthesis conditions, is …

Simple water tunable polyurethane microsphere for super-hydrophobic dip-coating and oil-water separation

H Yuan, Y Pan, X Wang, Q Chen, Q Hu, C Shao, Z Guo… - Polymer, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, a simple thermally induced phase separation method with the assistance of little
water dosage to prepare thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) microsphere for super …

Robust superhydrophobic surface fabrication by fluorine-free method on filter paper for oil/water separation

Y Teng, Y Wang, B Shi, X Li, Y Chen - Polymer Testing, 2020 - Elsevier
Robust superhydrophobic surface exhibiting anti-fouling and self-cleaning ability were
successfully fabricated by nano TiO2 modified by γ-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (KH550) and …

Development of a nanostructured film based on samarium (III)/polydopamine on the steel surface with superior anti-corrosion and water-repellency properties

F Bahremand, T Shahrabi, B Ramezanzadeh - Journal of Colloid and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Hypothesis The application of various hydrophobic/superhydrophobic coatings on the
surface of metals has become the hot topic of the recent studies. The corrosion protection …