New types of electrodeposited polymer coatings with reversible wettability and electro-optical properties
AssigneeUniversity of Houston System
InventorsRigoberto Advincula, Roderick Pernites
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Abstract
Novel coatings are disclosed prepared by electropolymerization of non-fluorinated conducting pre-grafted hydrophobic electropolymerizable monomers onto a conducting layer of a substrate, where the electropolymerized coating exhibit both unique reversible wettability and electro-optical properties. The coating may also include one or more layers of polymer particles upon which the non-fluorinated conducting pre-grafted hydrophobic electropolymerizable monomers are polymerized imparting a submicron structure to the coating. Methods for making and using the coatings are also disclosed.
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A composition comprising a substrate including a surface having a coating formed thereon, where the surface comprises a conducting layer and where the coating comprises a non-fluorinated conducting polymer or plurality of non-fluorinated conducting and/or non-conducing polymers, where the coating has controllable redox chemical, electrochromic and wettability properties.
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