To best exploit these opportunities, new hydrophilic, hydrophobic, oleophobic,
amphiphobic and multifunctional coatings are being developed.
Fingerprints possess
amphiphobic properties [2-4], so an appropriate surface roughness and surface chemistry are both crucial factors in the fabrication of fingerprint-free surfaces.
A facile and low-cost preparation of durable
amphiphobic coatings with fluoride- silica@poly(methacrylic acid) hybrid nanocomposites--Zheng-Bai Zhao, Da-Ming Zhang, Li Tai, Peng-Fei Jiang, and Yong Jiang
Alemany et al., "Synthesis of fluorinated graphene oxide and its
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Lim, "Fabrication of
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Since fingerprints are mainly composed of water and skin oil (sebum), antifingerprint properties were achieved by developing
amphiphobic surfaces that repel water (hydrophobic) and oils (oleophobic) [23, 24, 26, 27].
Experiments showed that the polymers pack very densely on the cotton surface, giving rise to a thick
amphiphobic surface that is hard to breach with normal use.
These obstacles are difficult to overcome because of both the strong van der Waals attraction between SWNTs (500 eV/[micro]m) (16) and their
amphiphobic nature (17).
