The superhydrophobic antibacterial fabrics with intelligent switchable wettability were fabricated by the cross-link reaction among pH-responsive antibacterial copolymer tethered hydroxyl groups, methylol-contained poly(ureaformaldehyde) nanoparticles (PUF NPs), and hexamethylene diisocyanate. It was found that the surface concentration of N were heavily influenced by acid solutions, resulting in the rapid wettability conversion from superhydrophobicity/superoleophilicity to superhydrophilicity/underwater superoleophobicity in a remarkably short time. The above responsiveness feature of coated cotton fabric contributes a prominent selective oil/water separation property, and the separation efficiency invariably remained at greater than 95% even after 20 reuse cycles, which exhibited brilliant durability. More importantly, the coated cotton fabric possessed excellent self-cleaning performance after contamination by oil and held high bactericidal rate (more than 80%) regardless of pH treatment, and thus could abate the surface biological pollution caused by bacteria proliferation. The attractive properties of the prepared smart superwetting materials shows great promise for potential application in oil/water separation from an environmental-protection perspective.
Various organogel
materials with either a liquid or solid surface
layer have recently been designed and prepared. In this work, amphiphilic
organogels (AmOG) are innovatively developed from copolymer P(PDMS-r-PEG-r-GMA)
and 2,2′-diaminodiphenyldisulfide via epoxy group addition
reaction and then infiltrated with amphiphilic lubricants instead
of traditional hydrophilic or hydrophobic lubricants. Because of synergistic
effects of hydrophilic and hydrophobic segments of amphiphilic lubricants,
the AmOG surfaces showed high stability and excellent anti-icing performance.
The delay in the freezing point of water was 1000 s on AmOG surfaces,
which is 40 times longer as compared to the untreated hydrophilic
glass surface. More importantly, low ice adhesion strength (15.1 kPa)
was observed on AmOG which remained about 40 kPa even after 20 icing–deicing
cycles. The novel amphiphilic organogels provide a new idea to prepare
long-term anti-icing materials for practical applications.
High‐loading lithium–sulfur batteries have gained considerable fame for possessing high area capacity, but face a stern challenge from capacity fading because of serious issues, including “polysulfides shuttling,” insulating S/Li2S, large volume changes, and the shedding of S/C particles during drying or the cell encapsulation process. Herein, a bioinspired water‐soluble binder framework is constructed via intermolecular physical cross‐linking of functional side chains hanging on the terpolymer binder. Experimental results and density‐functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal that this network binder featuring superior volume change accommodation can also capture lithium polysulfides (LiPSs) through strong anchoring of O, N+ actives to LiPSs by forming Li···O and N+···Sx2− bonds. In addition, the abundant negative charged sulfonate coordination sites and good electrolyte uptake of the designed binder endow the assembled cells with high lithium ion conductivity and fast lithium ion diffusion. Consequently, a remarkable capacity retention of 98% after 350 cycles at 1 C and a high areal capacity of 12.8 mA h cm−2 with high sulfur loading of 12.0 mg cm−2 are achieved by applying the environmentally friendly binder.
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