%0 Journal Article %A Wooh, Sanghyuk %A Encinas García, Noemí %A Vollmer, Doris %A Butt, Hans-Jürgen %T Stable hydrophobic metal‐oxide photocatalysts via grafting polydimethylsiloxane brush %D 2017 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/115013 %X Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) can be grafted to metal-oxide photocatalysts such as titanium oxide by simple UV irradiation in solution or melt. The PDMS graft metal oxides are still photocatalytically active. They are hydrophobic, liquid repellent, self-cleaning, prevent biofouling and are long-term stable even in UV light. %~