Highly transparent superhydrophobic organic–inorganic nanocoating from the aggregation of silica nanoparticles

Achieving to a superhydrophobic glass with high transparency by a simple sol–gel-dip-coating method

“…Specially, the superhydrophobic glass surfaces have generated widespread interest due to their extensive application in the solar panel illumination glass, car windshield, and so on [6]. Generally, for having SHS, two-step approaches are necessary to carry out; in which firstly surfaces with hierarchical roughness are fabricated and then special chemicals with low surface energy are deposited onto the created rough surfaces [7].…”

Synthesis and Characterization of Superhydrophobic, Self-cleaning NIR-reflective Silica Nanoparticles

“…For example, fabrics coated with dye incorporated silica nanoparticles were tested for the durability and wash fastness14, along with change in hydrophobicity with time151617. Additionally, the degree of hydrophobicity to surface coating also reduced bacterial attachment leading to antimicrobial nanoparticles18.…”

The durability of superhydrophobic films

“…Figure 3(b), (c), and (d) illustrate the high-resolution spectra for C1s, O1s, and Si2p, respectively. C1s peak is decomposed into three components at 283.98 eV, 284.6 eV, and 285.8 eV assigned to -Si-C*H 3 [29,30], -CH 2 -C*H 3 [31,32], and -O-C*H 2 -CH 3 [29], respectively. The first component represents the hydrophobic functional groups, whereas the latter two are derived from the incomplete hydrolysis of TEOS.…”