Recent progress in fabrication and application of polydimethylsiloxane sponges

D Zhu, S Handschuh-Wang, X Zhou - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Owing to their structural advantages in comparison with bulk polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS),
porous 3D substrates, which are also known as PDMS sponges, possess immense potential …

Emulsion-templated polymers: Contemporary contemplations

MS Silverstein - Polymer, 2017 - Elsevier
Emulsion-templated porous polymers (polyHIPEs) with highly interconnected voids that
range from a few micrometers to hundreds of micrometers are typically synthesized within …

Emulsion templating: porous polymers and beyond

T Zhang, RA Sanguramath, S Israel… - Macromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
Emulsion templating presently extends far beyond the original hydrophobic porous polymers
that were synthesized within surfactant-stabilized water-in-oil high internal phase emulsions …

Sustainable and inexpensive polydimethylsiloxane sponges for daytime radiative cooling

L Zhou, J Rada, H Zhang, H Song… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Radiative cooling is an emerging cooling technology that can passively release heat to the
environment. To obtain a subambient cooling effect during the daytime, chemically …

Lightweight, superelastic boron nitride/polydimethylsiloxane foam as air dielectric substitute for multifunctional capacitive sensor applications

RY Tay, H Li, J Lin, H Wang, JSK Lim… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Porous polymeric foams as dielectric layer for highly sensitive capacitive based pressure
sensors have been extensively explored owing to their excellent flexibility and elasticity …

Bio-inspired hollow PDMS sponge for enhanced oil–water separation

JH Shin, JH Heo, S Jeon, JH Park, S Kim… - Journal of hazardous …, 2019 - Elsevier
Oil spills from disasters such as the sinking of ships and the discharge of oily wastes cause
serious environmental problems. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) sponges are valuable tools …

One-step fabrication of bioinspired lubricant-regenerable icephobic slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces

Y Zhuo, F Wang, S Xiao, J He, Z Zhang - ACS omega, 2018 - ACS Publications
Icephobic coating and surfaces are essential for protecting infrastructures such as
transmission lines, transportation vehicles, and many others from severe damages of …

Coalescence behavior of eco-friendly Pickering-MIPES and HIPEs stabilized by using bacterial cellulose nanofibrils

Q Li, Y Wu, M Shabbir, Y Pei, H Liang, J Li, Y Chen… - Food Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
O/W Pickering emulsions containing oil phase with different volume fractions (50–75 v%)
were facilely prepared by using bacterial cellulose nanofibrils (BCNFs) alone. The effect of …

An innovative, fast and facile soft-template approach for the fabrication of porous PDMS for oil–water separation

A Turco, E Primiceri, M Frigione, G Maruccio… - Journal of Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Oil wastewater and spilled oil have caused serious environmental pollution and damage to
public health in the past few years. Therefore, considerable efforts are being made to …

Water-in-PDMS emulsion templating of highly interconnected porous architectures for 3D cell culture

R Riesco, L Boyer, S Blosse, PM Lefebvre… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The development of advanced techniques of fabrication of three-dimensional (3D)
microenvironments for the study of cell growth and proliferation has become one of the …