COMPOSITIONS AND TREATED SUBSTRATES HAVING REVERSIBLY ADAPTABLE SURFACE ENERGY PROPERTIES AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME

摘要

The present invention relates generally to substrates that exhibit useful, auto adaptable surface energy properties that depend on the environment of t he substrate. Such surface energy properties provide relatively high advancing and receding contact angles for liquids when in contact with the target substrate surface. The substrates exhibit low surface energy quantities of a t most about 20 millijoules per square meter (mJ/m2) at a temperature of about 25 degrees C and a surface energy greater than about 20 mJ/m2 at, or with exposure to, a temperature of about 40 degrees C. More specifically, encompassed within the present invention are textile substrates having this highly desirable unique surface energy modification property and which exhib it wash durable oil and water repellency and stain release features. Novel compositions and formulations that impart such surface energy modifications to substrates are also encompassed within this invention, as well as methods fo r producing such treated substrates.