Fabrication of a fast curing super-hydrophobic FEVE/MMA coating and its property research

Abstract Because of its significant role in the field of self-cleaning, super-hydrophobic coatings have attracted more and more attention from researchers around the world, while the properties of environmental weather resistance and structure-stability often limit the application in daily life of which. In this study, a fast curing super-hydrophobic coating with good thermal tolerance as well as structure-stability and can be applied to a variety of surfaces conveniently was fabricated with fluorocarbon resin (FEVE), methyl methacrylate (MMA) and micro/nanometer scale powders via solution method. A scanning electron microscope (SEM) and a confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) were used to evaluate the coating micro morphology. The influence of material content ratio of each component on wettability was analyzed by contact angle measuring instrument. The composition testing of Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) indicated that the coating has a high fluorine content. And the test of friction, constant temperature and immersion experiments showed appropriate physical/chemical stability and weather fastness of the coating.