Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Totalenergies Onetech

Guillaume Espy

Olivier Lhost

Jean-François Gerard

Sébastien Livi

Jannick Duchet-Rumeau

The disclosure provides a process for treatment of an article () made of a polymer composition; comprising the steps of providing an article () with a surface, the article being made of a polymer composition comprising one or more polyolefins; providing one or more texturing solvents () selected from one or more vegetable oils, one or more terpenes, one or more alkanes and any combination thereof; wherein the one or more texturing solvents () are further selected to have a boiling point which is above the crystallisation temperature Tc of the one or more polyolefins and to be devoid of a halogenated atom and/or an aromatic group; contacting the surface of the article () with the one or more texturing solvents (); and recovering an article with a textured surface with water contact angle following ISO 19403-6:2017 that is increased by comparison to the initial water contact angle.

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Villeurbanne, France

Guillaume Espy