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PHA
PHA is a kind of bio-plastic produced by microbes.It's standard extract can be got after being dissolved in chloroform.
It is still a technical challenge to shape PHA because of it's fragility, so we thought of one way to use PHA without shaping it.
It is PHA's property of water-repellent.
According to the equation of Yang and Wenzel, the bigger the surface area is, the stronger the water-repellency can get.
Hence, our goal is to stick PHA on weak water-repellent membrane in order to achieve stronger water-repellency.