Hybrid materials based on ZnO and SiO2 nanoparticles as hydrophobic coatings for textiles

This study presents a strategy to obtain textile materials with hydrophobic/oleophobic effect by applying hybrid coatings based on a mixture of flower-like ZnO nanoparticles and organically modified SiO2 nanoparticles (ORMOSIL). The obtained dispersions based on both types of nanoparticles are stable, with unimodal distribution of smaller quasi spherical shape and average size of 158 nm for SiO2 nanoparticles and respectively, with bimodal...