“…Theability to control the hydrophilic/hydrophobic nature of as urface usually involves polymers, [38] self-assembled monolayers (SAM), [39] or surfaces with covalently attached responsive arrays. [40,41] Thehydrophobicity switching is important in micro-and nanotechnology, [42,43] for instance,i n chemical shielding, [44] self-cleaning surfaces, [45,46] and microfluidic applications. [47,48] In this respect, PPF PEG136,having ar elatively simple design and solution processing based on self-assembly,i sc apable of both reversible and irreversible changes,inducing hydrophilic/hydrophobics witching.…”