A facile approach to UV-curable super-hydrophilic polyacrylate coating film grafted on glass substrate

The super-hydrophilic polymer coating film can easily be be peeled off from a substrate with the existence of water, which is a fatal drawback in practical applications. Herein, a facile approach is proposed to prepare UV-curable super-hydrophilic polyacrylate coating film that is chemically grafted on the surface of gamma-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane-modified glass substrate. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy confirmed that the polyacrylate coating films were successfully grafted onto the glass substrate and exhibited rough micro-groove structure. The obtained polyacrylate coating film possessed super-hydrophilicity with the water contact angle close to nearly zero as well as good transmittance and antifogging property.