A multifunctional and environmentally-friendly method to fabricate superhydrophilic and self-healing coatings for sustainable antifogging

Hagfish‐inspired Smart SLIPS Marine Antifouling Coating Based on Supramolecular: Lubrication Modes Responsively Switching and Self‐healing Properties

“…because of high teratogenicity, ecofriendly, and efficient marine antifouling coatings are still extensively studied to this day. [4,5] Many antifouling coatings have been developed in this battle against marine fouling, such as self-polishing coating, [6][7][8] low surface energy (SE) coating, [9][10][11][12] micro-structured coating, [13][14][15] hydrophilic coating, [4,16,17] hydrophobic coating, [18][19][20][21] amphiphilic coating, [7,8,22] antifoulant release coating, [9,23] dynamic biodegradable coating, [16,24,25] slippery liquid-infused porous surface (SLIPS), [26][27][28][29][30] bactericidal coating, [23,31] mimic peptide coating, [32] fluorescent coating, [33] and so on. Among these methods, SLIPS has attracted continuous attention because of low SE, low Young's modulus, and dynamic antifouling surface.…”

Adopting Intrinsic Hydrophilic Thermoplastic Starch Composites to Fabricate Antifogging Sustainable Films with High Antibiosis and Transparency

“…This low WCA can reduce the total reflection of light, which contributes to achieving a highly transparent and improved antifogging performance. 5,18 The decrease in surface roughness usually weakens the hydrophilicity or hydrophobicity of the material, 1 which is not suitable to explain the phenomenon.…”

“…3,5 Due to its convenience and low cost in processing, the facile method has been elaborated in versatile ways, such as changing the surface energy under ultraviolet irradiation by coating photocatalytic titanium dioxide, 12 grafting or spraying low-surface-energy coatings, 3,13 constructing a hydrophilic texture, 14 blending with antifogging agents, 15,16 and so on. migration, 17 self-healing, 18 and antibacterial 9 or amphiphilic surfaces with self-cleaning 19 of hydrophilic surfaces have been demonstrated, too. To our best knowledge, these strategies for nonintrinsic hydrophilic characters have been widely used in traditional goggle materials such as glass, poly(methyl methacrylate), polythene, and polycarbonate (PC) to enhance their antifogging performance.…”

“…To reduce fogging of transparent plastic products, a series of approaches have been developed based on two efficient antifogging strategies: making air humidity unsaturated by adjusting environmental parameters or modifying the wetting state of the surface. ,, The first strategy is simplistic and reliable but is mainly applied on a large scale due to energy requirements, while the second strategy focuses on thermodynamic methods to regulate the morphology of condensed droplets by constructing hydrophilic, hydrophobic, or amphiphilic surfaces following the three-phase tension balance theory. ,, Unlike the hydrophobic strategy, antifogging by hydrophilic surfaces utilizes a water-attracting surface to spread the water droplets into a flat water film, which allows incident light to pass through directly instead of scattering. , Due to its convenience and low cost in processing, the facile method has been elaborated in versatile ways, such as changing the surface energy under ultraviolet irradiation by coating photocatalytic titanium dioxide, grafting or spraying low-surface-energy coatings, , constructing a hydrophilic texture, blending with antifogging agents, , and so on. Furthermore, coating migration, self-healing, and antibacterial or amphiphilic surfaces with self-cleaning of hydrophilic surfaces have been demonstrated, too. To our best knowledge, these strategies for nonintrinsic hydrophilic characters have been widely used in traditional goggle materials such as glass, poly­(methyl methacrylate), polythene, and polycarbonate (PC) to enhance their antifogging performance.…”

A mild, versatile and time-saving interfacial gelation blackening strategy for fabricating high-quality 3D porous solar steam evaporators

“…The excellent underwater superoleophobicity of MF-SA/TA-Fe 3+ can be ascribed to the superhydrophilic SA/TA-Fe 3+ gel structure, which can absorb the amount of water and form a hydration layer on the surface to prevent oil contamination. 35 Therefore, the salt on the MF-SA/TA-Fe 3+ surface can dissolve easily due to the circulation of water (Fig. 4c), ensuring that the evaporator retains a stable vapor generation ability even in high-salinity seawater (Fig.…”