Our latest work has just been published, with a focus of depositing PDMS brushes onto carbon steels and not causing the steel to corrode. Quite a challenge, considering both the silica layer used to smoothen out the rough substrate contains HCl, and our standard recipe for growing PDMS brushes also generates HCl. Luckily, Parnian and co-authors were up to the task! No only did she figure out a way to prevent the corrosion caused by the coating, she also found the coating to be quite a good barrier against further corrosion, using electrochemical testing. Great stuff. Check out Corrosion-resistant omniphobic coating for low-carbon steel substrates using silica layers enhanced with ethylenediamine tetraacedic acid
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