Plastic sheets are used across many industries worldwide. Their good mechanical properties combined with their hydrophobicity make for ideal, waterproof barriers. But what if sustainable, recyclable paper could be engineered to offer the same performance? What if you grocer didn't need to ask “paper or plastic?” because the paper outperformed the plastic?

We developed non-toxic paper coatings on papers that can repel wide range of liquids, including water and oil with extremely sliding angle. This work was published in ACS Applied Materials Interfaces