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Facile fabrication of fluorine free zirconium zinc stearate based superhydrophobic and superoleophilic coating on cotton fabric with superior antibacterial property

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Title Facile fabrication of fluorine free zirconium zinc stearate based superhydrophobic and superoleophilic coating on cotton fabric with superior antibacterial property
 
Creator Seth, Malobi
Khan, Hasmat
Bhowmik, Rudranil
Karmakar, Sanmoy
Jana, Sunirmal
 
Subject Engineering Materials
 
Description A simple solution technique has been adopted to fabricate in situ generated zirconium zinc stearate based superhydrophobic and superoleophilic fluorine-free coating on cotton fabric with superior antibacterial and excellent photocatalytic properties. The materials properties of the specimen such as crystallinity/crystal phase, chemical bonding, surface morphology, and surface roughness have been characterized systematically. The coated cotton derived from an optimized precursor composition shows the retention of superhydrophobicity with static water contact angle \~163 degrees after several cycles of machine laundering and mechanical abrasion. It is seen that zirconium species may have caused an enhancement in laundering durability and mechanical robustness while hierarchical morphology of zinc stearate is responsible for acquiring superior antibacterial property along with self cleaning ability of the coating to make the coated fabric promising for real life application such as military uniform, biomedical clothing/devices. In addition, the coated cotton is found to be suitable for separation of oil from oil-water mixtures with high efficiency (\~99%) even after 10 cycles of repeated use. Thus, the material can be used for separation of oil from oil-contaminated industrial wastewater/marine water. Moreover, AgBr modified superhydrophobic cotton fabric shows excellent photocatalytic activity towards degradation of organic dye. This facile process can be up-scaled for commercial us
 
Publisher Kluwer Academic
 
Date 2020-04
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://cgcri.csircentral.net/4931/1/jana.pdf
Seth, Malobi and Khan, Hasmat and Bhowmik, Rudranil and Karmakar, Sanmoy and Jana, Sunirmal (2020) Facile fabrication of fluorine free zirconium zinc stearate based superhydrophobic and superoleophilic coating on cotton fabric with superior antibacterial property. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, 94 (1). pp. 127-140. ISSN 0928-0707
 
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