Superhydrophobicity of polytetrafluoroethylene thin film fabricated by pulsed laser deposition

Superhydrophobic poly(vinylidene fluoride) film fabricated by alkali treatment enhancing chemical bath deposition

“…Imitating lotus effect, the superhydrophobic surfaces have been fabricated in many different ways such as anodic oxidation [7][8][9], electrodeposition and chemical etching [10][11][12], plasma etching [13], laser treatment [14][15][16][17][18], electrospinning, sol-gel processing [19,20], etc. In this work, the alkali treatment enhancing chemical bath deposition method was firstly used to prepare the superhydrophobic PVDF film surface, which could be widely used as topcoats of membrane structures, such as tension membrane structures, architectural umbrellas, carshelters, and tent fabrics [21,3], and so on.…”

Surface texturing of polytetrafluoroethylene by hot embossing

“…However, contact angle between water droplet and the surface of commercially available PTFE usually do not exceed 1088 [8,9]. Successful attempts to improve hydrophobicity include ion implantation, pulsed laser deposition, pulse electron deposition and ion beam irradiation [8,[10][11][12][13]. Most of the methods reported are complex, time-consuming and need expensive equipment.…”

Preparation and Characterization of Polyvinylidene Fluoride/Graphene Superhydrophobic Fibrous Films

“…Fluorinated polymers with low surface energy are naturally hydrophobic, chemically and environmentally stable. Hence, they are a group of the mostly-used materials to generate highly hydrophobic surfaces [6][7][8]. Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is one type of polymer that is commonly implemented in many film-based separation processes such as film distillation.…”