Can anyone please help me to select a proper organosilane combination or titanates with inorganic nanoparticles which will form thin film (monomolecular) on glass surface in short time span and at room temperature. It is important that there is no effect on its optical transparency and that it cures at room temperature.
Superhydrophilic is quite easy, just treat the glass with O2 plasma. However, you cannot make a surface "super"hydrophobic just by coating with an organosilane, you need to create a texture like the lotus leaf. To hydrophobize you can use either alkyl-chlorosilanes (better trichlorosilanes) or perfluoroalkyl-trichlorosilanes.
Periklis, could you maybe direct me to a procedure for making the hydrophobic surface? Thank you in advance...
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