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Abstract
A highly hydrophilic coating with a water contact angle below 10° was developed on a transparent polycarbonate (PC) sheet using a UV-curable process. Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS), modified with poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate (PEGMA), provided the hydrophilic functionality essential for the coating. Fogging and frost formation on transparent surfaces often hinder visibility and pose challenges in various optical applications. The hydrophilic coating developed in this study demonstrated excellent antifogging and antifrost properties, along with a notable self-cleaning capability. These characteristics make it a promising candidate for applications in transparent optical PC materials, requiring enhanced antifogging, antifrost, and self-cleaning performance.
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Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360) is an international, open access journal of polymer science. It publishes research papers, short communications and review papers. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. Therefore, there is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. Polymers provides an interdisciplinary forum for publishing papers which advance the fields of (i) polymerization methods, (ii) theory, simulation, and modeling, (iii) understanding of new physical phenomena, (iv) advances in characterization techniques, and (v) harnessing of self-assembly and biological strategies for producing complex multifunctional structures.