Facile synthesis of hydrophobic fluoroalkyl functionalized silsesquioxane nanostructures.
New fluorinated polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (F-POSS) structures possessing a high degree of hydrophobicity have been prepared via a facile corner-capping methodology.
Iacono
Scott T
ST
Department of Chemistry and Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies (COMSET), Advanced Materials Research Laboratory, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA.
Vij
Ashwani
A
Grabow
Wade
W
Smith
Dennis W
DW
Mabry
Joseph M
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