Water droplets form spherical shapes on the composite’s surface
Scientists in China have made a mechanically stable superhydrophobic material from waste silicone.
There is currently no widespread recycling option for silicone products. ‘It is hard to reuse waste silicone owing to its cross-linked network. At present, the green method to reuse waste silicone is to collect discarded silicone products and smash them for further processing for low value applications, but this method is not widespread because of its relatively high cost and complicated processing,’ explains Lie Shen who led the work at Zhejiang University.
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Stable superhydrophobic surface based on silicone combustion product
Lie Shen, Wenlian Qiu, Bin Liu and Qipeng Guo
RSC Adv., 2014, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C4RA10838H, Communication
