New responsive property of poly(epsilon-caprolactone) as the thermal switch from superhydrophobic to superhydrophilic.
A reversible switch between superhydrophobicity at low temperature and superhydrophilicity at high temperature was fabricated by coating poly(epsilon-caprolactone) on a rough substrate, which resulted from the combination of the different adaptability of the polymer chain upon crystalline/amorphous phase transition and the optimized roughness.
Centre of Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China100080.
Shuxin
S
Hu
Xinyu
X
Cao
Yanlin
Y
Song
Chao
C
Li
Ping
P
Xie
Lei
L
Jiang