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Superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted great attention due to their interesting properties. The ever-increasing environmental concern accelerated the development of bio-based superhydrophobic coating materials. As a high-yield agricultural waste, bagasse is cheap, ready available, renewable and biodegradable. It would be an ideal raw material for the preparation of bio-based superhydrophobic coatings to further improve its application value. Although the hydrophobization of bagasse have been reported, the according works mainly focus on the reaction mechanism and/or their oil-absorption properties. As far as we know, the design of bagasse-based superhydrophobic coatings has been uncovered. Herein, mechanically pretreated bagasse was esterified with stearoyl chloride. Spray-coating the suspension of as-synthesized bagasse esters onto various substrates (glass slide, aluminum flake and filter paper), superhydrophobic surfaces were generated. SEM images in combination with the high-resolution C1s XPS deconvolution spectra implied that nano-structured bagasse esters were deposited on the synthesized micro-scaled esters, which was necessary for their superhydrophobicity. The as-prepared superhydrophobic surfaces exhibited good anti-fouling, oil absorption performance and high time/temperature/pH stability. This research would provide a novel perspective for the design of other bio-based superhydrophobic coatings.
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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi Province (2018GXNSFBA138027); Scientific Research Foundation of Guangxi University (XGZ170232); the Dean Project of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp and Papermaking and Pollution Control (ZR201804-7).
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Qin, C., Wang, W., Li, W. et al. Developing bagasse towards superhydrophobic coatings. Cellulose 28, 3617–3630 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-021-03743-8
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