BOUSRIH , Imen

Controlling the shape of surface nanostructures is fundamental for various potential applications for example, in water harvesting systems, liquid transportation or oil/water separation membranes. Here, the creation of porous surface structures is made by a process called templateless electropolymerization, in which water (H2O) is...

The bioinspiration is one of the best ways to make a breakthrough in a field, and particularly in the wetting properties. Bioinspired by natural species such as rose petals and gecko foot and previous researches, nanotubular structures are prepared here by soft-template electropolymerization in organic solvent and using an original...

Here, a bioinspired strategy is used to prepare well-ordered nanotubular structures, as observed in animals and plants such as gecko toepads or corals. The nanotubes are obtained by templateless electropolymerization of thieno[3,4-b]thiophene-based monomers with various aromatic groups in organic solvent (dichloromethane). The most interesting...