Superhydrophobic silica aerogels by fluorination at the gel stage.
Superhydrophobic silica aerogels are obtained by surface modification of standard silica gels prepared by a two-step process with a heavily fluorinated silyl chloride followed by supercritical evacuation of the solvent.
Roig
Anna
A
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus de la UAB, 08193-Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain. roig@icmab.es.
Molins
Elies
E
Rodríguez
Elisenda
E
Martínez
Sandra
S
Moreno-Mañas
Marcial
M
Vallribera
Adelina
A