Issue 44, 2011
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Journal of Materials Chemistry

Fabrics with self-adaptive wettability controlled by “light-and-dark”†

Yeeyee Kong,a   Yuyang Liub  and  John H. Xin*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Nanotechnology Center, Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
E-mail: tcxinjh@inet.polyu.edu.hk

b Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
E-mail: yuyang.liu@stevens.edu

Abstract

Self-adaptive wettability is built on fibrous textile material through a simple one-step fabric treatment with nanotitania followed by controlled exposure to “light” and “dark”. The self-adaptive feature created a fabric with one side having superhydrophilic and the other having hydrophobic properties. With the two contrasting properties, water can be transported unidirectionally from the hydrophobic side to the superhydrophilic side through the cooperation of 2D nano-capillary and 3D marco-capillary channels of the titania treated fabric.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1JM12516H
Article type
Paper
Submitted
02 Jun 2011
Accepted
01 Aug 2011
First published
13 Oct 2011

J. Mater. Chem., 2011,21, 17978-17987

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Fabrics with self-adaptive wettability controlled by “light-and-dark”

Y. Kong, Y. Liu and J. H. Xin, J. Mater. Chem., 2011, 21, 17978 DOI: 10.1039/C1JM12516H

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