Polybenzoxazines are well known to be advanced thermoset resin with many unique properties. More specially, the last decade has witnessed active research on various polybenzoxazines based functional surfaces due to their ability of low surface free energy, which can be lower than the widely regarded low surface energy polymer, Teflon, without having fluorine atoms. Nowadays, researches on polybenzoxazine-based functional surfaces have aroused attention in many fields of applications, such as anticorrosion, anti-ice, anti-sticking, liquid manipulation, oil/water separation, and self-cleaning. It is evident that the performance of polybenzoxazine based composites is determined by the chemical structures and constitution. The relationship between structures and surface properties in composites based on polybenzoxazines plays a vital role in the development of advanced surface materials. Herein, the advances in fabricating and investigating performance of functional surfaces based on polybenzoxazines and their composites is reviewed, focusing on the molecule design and fabricating principals of the surfaces with controllable structure, wettability, adhesion, and other fascinating functionality. Current progress from the research database are also summarized along with challenges in the development of polybenzoxazine based functional surface, in order to provide guidelines for designing and developing of materials based on polybenzoxazines with desired properties.
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Fabrication and properties of functional surface based on polybenzoxazine
2.1 Polybenzoxazines chemical structure and surface properties
2.2 Composites' chemical constitution and surface properties
3 Applications of functional surface based on polybenzoxazine
3.1 Anti-corrosion
3.2 Anti-ice
3.3 Anti-sticking
3.4 Liquid manipulation
3.5 Water/oil separation
3.6 Self-cleaning
4 Conclusion