Adrian Gestos

TL;DR: A superhydrophobic fabric coating made of a crosslinked polydimethylsiloxane elastomer, containing well-dispersed hydrophobic silica nanoparticles and fluorinated alkyl silane shows remarkable durability against repeated machine washes, severe abrasion, strong acid or base, boiling water or beverages and excellent stain resistance.

TL;DR: In this article, a robust, superamphiphobic fabric with a self-healing ability to autorepair from chemical damage is prepared by a two-step wet-chemistry coating technique using an easily available material system consisting of poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene), fluoroalkyl silane, and modified silica nanoparticles.

TL;DR: Thermocells are demonstrated, in practical configurations, that harvest low-grade thermal energy using relatively inexpensive carbon multiwalled nanotube (MWNT) electrodes that provide high electrochemically accessible surface areas and fast redox-mediated electron transfer, which significantly enhances thermocell current generation capacity and overall efficiency.

TL;DR: A superamphiphobic fabric that has remarkable multi-self-healing ability against both physical and chemical damages and may find applications for the development of "smart" functional textiles for various applications.

TL;DR: In this paper, a robust, electrically conductive, superamphiphobic fabric was prepared by vapour-phase polymerisation of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) on fabric in the presence of fluorinated decyl polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (FD-POSS) and a fluorinated alkyl silane (FAS).