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Oil-Impregnated Hydrocarbon-Based Polymer Films
Porous surfaces impregnated with a liquid lubricant exhibit minimal contact angle hysteresis with immiscible test liquids, rendering them ideal as self-cleaning materials. Rather than roughening a solid substrate, an increasingly popular choice is to use an absorbent polymer as the “porous” material...
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6076315/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30076322 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29823-7 |
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author | Mukherjee, Ranit Habibi, Mohammad Rashed, Ziad T. Berbert, Otacilio Shi, Xiangke Boreyko, Jonathan B. |
author_facet | Mukherjee, Ranit Habibi, Mohammad Rashed, Ziad T. Berbert, Otacilio Shi, Xiangke Boreyko, Jonathan B. |
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description | Porous surfaces impregnated with a liquid lubricant exhibit minimal contact angle hysteresis with immiscible test liquids, rendering them ideal as self-cleaning materials. Rather than roughening a solid substrate, an increasingly popular choice is to use an absorbent polymer as the “porous” material. However, to date the polymer choices have been limited to expensive silicone-based polymers or complex assemblies of polymer multilayers on functionalized surfaces. In this paper, we show that hydrocarbon-based polymer films such as polyethylene can be stably impregnated with chemically compatible vegetable oils, without requiring any surface treatment. These oil-impregnated hydrocarbon-based films exhibit minimal contact angle hysteresis for a wide variety of test products including water, ketchup, and yogurt. Our oil-impregnated films remain slippery even after several weeks of being submerged in ketchup, illustrating their extreme durability. We expect that the simple and cost-effective nature of our slippery hydrocarbon-based films will make them useful for industrial packaging applications. |
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spelling | pubmed-60763152018-08-08 Oil-Impregnated Hydrocarbon-Based Polymer Films Mukherjee, Ranit Habibi, Mohammad Rashed, Ziad T. Berbert, Otacilio Shi, Xiangke Boreyko, Jonathan B. Sci Rep Article Porous surfaces impregnated with a liquid lubricant exhibit minimal contact angle hysteresis with immiscible test liquids, rendering them ideal as self-cleaning materials. Rather than roughening a solid substrate, an increasingly popular choice is to use an absorbent polymer as the “porous” material. However, to date the polymer choices have been limited to expensive silicone-based polymers or complex assemblies of polymer multilayers on functionalized surfaces. In this paper, we show that hydrocarbon-based polymer films such as polyethylene can be stably impregnated with chemically compatible vegetable oils, without requiring any surface treatment. These oil-impregnated hydrocarbon-based films exhibit minimal contact angle hysteresis for a wide variety of test products including water, ketchup, and yogurt. Our oil-impregnated films remain slippery even after several weeks of being submerged in ketchup, illustrating their extreme durability. We expect that the simple and cost-effective nature of our slippery hydrocarbon-based films will make them useful for industrial packaging applications. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6076315/ /pubmed/30076322 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29823-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Mukherjee, Ranit Habibi, Mohammad Rashed, Ziad T. Berbert, Otacilio Shi, Xiangke Boreyko, Jonathan B. Oil-Impregnated Hydrocarbon-Based Polymer Films |
title | Oil-Impregnated Hydrocarbon-Based Polymer Films |
title_full | Oil-Impregnated Hydrocarbon-Based Polymer Films |
title_fullStr | Oil-Impregnated Hydrocarbon-Based Polymer Films |
title_full_unstemmed | Oil-Impregnated Hydrocarbon-Based Polymer Films |
title_short | Oil-Impregnated Hydrocarbon-Based Polymer Films |
title_sort | oil-impregnated hydrocarbon-based polymer films |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6076315/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30076322 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29823-7 |
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