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.
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus de la UAB, 08193-Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain. roig@icmab.es.
Anna
A
Roig
Elies
E
Molins
Elisenda
E
Rodríguez
Sandra
S
Martínez
Marcial
M
Moreno-Mañas
Adelina
A
Vallribera