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Solution Crystallization of Polycarbonate Surfaces for Hydrophobic State: Water Droplet Dynamics and Life Cycle Assessment towards Self-Cleaning Applications
Polycarbonate sheets are optically transparent and have the potential to be used as one of the cover materials for PV applications. Solution treatment of polycarbonate surfaces enables to create surface texture topology giving rise to a hydrophobic state, which is favorable for self-cleaning applica...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8125551/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33946140 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13091449 |
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author | Yilbas, Bekir Sami Abubakar, Abba Abdulhamid Al-Qahtani, Hussain Shuja, Shahzada Zaman Shaukat, Mian Mobeen Sahin, Ahmet Z. Al-Sharafi, Abdullah Bahatab, Saeed |
author_facet | Yilbas, Bekir Sami Abubakar, Abba Abdulhamid Al-Qahtani, Hussain Shuja, Shahzada Zaman Shaukat, Mian Mobeen Sahin, Ahmet Z. Al-Sharafi, Abdullah Bahatab, Saeed |
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description | Polycarbonate sheets are optically transparent and have the potential to be used as one of the cover materials for PV applications. Solution treatment of polycarbonate surfaces enables to create surface texture topology giving rise to a hydrophobic state, which is favorable for self-cleaning applications. In the present study, hydrophobization of polycarbonate surface is investigated via crystallization of surface by a one-step process. The influence of texture topology, which is created via crystallization, on water droplet mobility and optical transmittance is examined. Findings revealed that solution treatment, using acetone, results in crystallized polycarbonate surfaces with a hydrophobic state. Depending on the treatment duration, the texture characteristics of crystallized surface change while influencing the water contact angle hysteresis. This in turn affects the droplet mobility over the inclined crystallized surface and alters the UV visible transmittance. Moreover, the droplet mobility improves and dust mitigation rates from the treated surface increase as the solution treatment duration are reduced to 2 min. Oil impregnated samples result in improved UV visible transmittance; however, droplet motion changes from rolling to sliding over the surface. A sliding water droplet enables the removal of the dust particles from the oil-impregnated sample surface. |
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spelling | pubmed-81255512021-05-17 Solution Crystallization of Polycarbonate Surfaces for Hydrophobic State: Water Droplet Dynamics and Life Cycle Assessment towards Self-Cleaning Applications Yilbas, Bekir Sami Abubakar, Abba Abdulhamid Al-Qahtani, Hussain Shuja, Shahzada Zaman Shaukat, Mian Mobeen Sahin, Ahmet Z. Al-Sharafi, Abdullah Bahatab, Saeed Polymers (Basel) Article Polycarbonate sheets are optically transparent and have the potential to be used as one of the cover materials for PV applications. Solution treatment of polycarbonate surfaces enables to create surface texture topology giving rise to a hydrophobic state, which is favorable for self-cleaning applications. In the present study, hydrophobization of polycarbonate surface is investigated via crystallization of surface by a one-step process. The influence of texture topology, which is created via crystallization, on water droplet mobility and optical transmittance is examined. Findings revealed that solution treatment, using acetone, results in crystallized polycarbonate surfaces with a hydrophobic state. Depending on the treatment duration, the texture characteristics of crystallized surface change while influencing the water contact angle hysteresis. This in turn affects the droplet mobility over the inclined crystallized surface and alters the UV visible transmittance. Moreover, the droplet mobility improves and dust mitigation rates from the treated surface increase as the solution treatment duration are reduced to 2 min. Oil impregnated samples result in improved UV visible transmittance; however, droplet motion changes from rolling to sliding over the surface. A sliding water droplet enables the removal of the dust particles from the oil-impregnated sample surface. MDPI 2021-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8125551/ /pubmed/33946140 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13091449 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Yilbas, Bekir Sami Abubakar, Abba Abdulhamid Al-Qahtani, Hussain Shuja, Shahzada Zaman Shaukat, Mian Mobeen Sahin, Ahmet Z. Al-Sharafi, Abdullah Bahatab, Saeed Solution Crystallization of Polycarbonate Surfaces for Hydrophobic State: Water Droplet Dynamics and Life Cycle Assessment towards Self-Cleaning Applications |
title | Solution Crystallization of Polycarbonate Surfaces for Hydrophobic State: Water Droplet Dynamics and Life Cycle Assessment towards Self-Cleaning Applications |
title_full | Solution Crystallization of Polycarbonate Surfaces for Hydrophobic State: Water Droplet Dynamics and Life Cycle Assessment towards Self-Cleaning Applications |
title_fullStr | Solution Crystallization of Polycarbonate Surfaces for Hydrophobic State: Water Droplet Dynamics and Life Cycle Assessment towards Self-Cleaning Applications |
title_full_unstemmed | Solution Crystallization of Polycarbonate Surfaces for Hydrophobic State: Water Droplet Dynamics and Life Cycle Assessment towards Self-Cleaning Applications |
title_short | Solution Crystallization of Polycarbonate Surfaces for Hydrophobic State: Water Droplet Dynamics and Life Cycle Assessment towards Self-Cleaning Applications |
title_sort | solution crystallization of polycarbonate surfaces for hydrophobic state: water droplet dynamics and life cycle assessment towards self-cleaning applications |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8125551/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33946140 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13091449 |
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