Figure 8: Surface modification and photographs showing amphiphobicity, water roll off and self-cleaning of the coated fabrics.
From: Large-scale, thick, self-assembled, nacre-mimetic brick-walls as fire barrier coatings on textiles
(a) Schematic representation of surface modification of CMC60MTM40-coated fabrics with trichloro(1H,1H,2H,2H–perfluorooctyl)silane (not in scale). Photographs of (b) water droplets, and (c) salad oil droplets, on both unmodified and modified coated fabrics. (d) Water droplet is soaked on the surface of the unmodified coated fabric, whereas it can easily roll off and bounce off from the modified coated fabric. (e) Self-cleaning behavior of modified coated fabric.
