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Ultralight open cell polymer sponges with advanced properties by PPX CVD coating
Gaigai Duan, Shaohua Jiang, Tobias Moss, Seema Agarwal and Andreas Greiner Polym. Chem., 2016, 7, 2759-2764.

Ultralight polyacrylate sponges were prepared from dispersions of short electrospun polymer fibres by freeze drying and coated with poly(p-xylylene) (PPX) by chemical vapour deposition (CVD). The PPX coating of the sponges increased the compression strength, the water contact angle, and the solvent resistance significantly without significant alteration of the sponge morphology.