Super-"amphiphobic" aligned carbon nanotube films

  • Huanjun Li
  • , Xianbao Wang
  • , Yanlin Song
  • , Yunqi Liu
  • , Qianshu Li
  • , Lei Jiang*
  • , Daoben Zhu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Fluoroalkylsilane treatment of super-hydrophobic, aligned carbon nanotube films (see electron micrograph) prepared by pyrolysis of metal phthalocyanines results in the films having both super-hydrophobic and super-lipophobic properties, namely they are super-"amphiphobic" surfaces.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1743-1746
Number of pages4
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume40
Issue number9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 May 2001

Keywords

  • Carbon
  • Electron microscopy
  • Nanostructures
  • Surface chemistry
  • Wettability

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