\begin{table}[H]
\caption{Optimised combinations of hydrophobic-SiO\textsubscript{2} (H-SiO\textsubscript{2}) particles, fatty acid and solvent loadings for water repellent coating slurries. SiO\textsubscript{2} nanoparticles (10.00 wt\%) were functionalised with their respective fatty acid (2.00 wt\%)/ethanol (88.00 wt\%) mixture.}
\label{Paper_table}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|l|}
\hline
\textbf{Fatty acid} & \textbf{Carbon chain length} & \textbf{H-SiO\textsubscript{2} particle loading/wt\%} & \textbf{Fatty acid loading/wt\%} & \textbf{Ethanol loading/\%} \\
\hline
Octanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
\hline
Decanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
\hline
Dodecanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
\hline
Hexadecanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
\hline
Octadecanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
2 Answers
You can use the p column type to specify the width of your columns. May I suggest using the booktabs package for a nicer look and removing the vertical lines ? If you don't want the text to be centered, remove the >{\centering}
from the code below.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[h]
\caption{Optimised combinations of hydrophobic-SiO\textsubscript{2} (H-SiO\textsubscript{2}) particles, fatty acid and solvent loadings for water repellent coating slurries. SiO\textsubscript{2} nanoparticles (10.00 wt\%) were functionalised with their respective fatty acid (2.00 wt\%)/ethanol (88.00 wt\%) mixture.}
\label{Paper_table}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{>{\centering}p{0.18\textwidth}>{\centering}p{0.12\textwidth}>{\centering}p{0.18\textwidth}>{\centering}p{0.18\textwidth}>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{0.15\textwidth}}
\toprule \textbf{Fatty acid} & \textbf{Carbon chain length} & \textbf{H-SiO\textsubscript{2} particle loading /wt\%} & \textbf{Fatty acid loading /wt\%} & \textbf{Ethanol loading /\%} \\
\midrule Octanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
\midrule Decanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
\midrule Dodecanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
\midrule Hexadecanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
\midrule Octadecanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Following this question, other possibilities include rotating the table.
I'd like to recommend that you use a tabularx
environment, which allows automatic line wrapping for its X
column type. I'd also like to recommend that you give the table a more "open" look, by getting rid of all vertical rules and employing fewer, but well-spaced horizontal rules. And, if you load the mhchem
package, you can typeset the names of chemical compounds using the package's \ce
macro.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx,ragged2e,booktabs,caption}
\newcolumntype{L}{>{\RaggedRight\arraybackslash}X}
\usepackage[version=4]{mhchem} % to typeset chemical compound names
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\caption{Optimised combinations of hydrophobic-\ce{SiO2} (H-\ce{SiO2})
particles, fatty acid and solvent loadings for water repellent
coating slurries.}
\label{Paper_table}
\ce{SiO2} nanoparticles (10.00 wt\%) were functionalised with their
respective fatty acid (2.00 wt\%)\slash ethanol (88.00 wt\%) mixture.
\smallskip
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{} l *{4}{L} @{}}
\toprule
\textbf{Fatty acid} &
\textbf{Carbon chain length} &
\textbf{H-\ce{SiO2} particle loading\slash wt\%} &
\textbf{Fatty acid loading\slash wt\%} &
\textbf{Ethanol loading\slash\%} \\
\midrule
Octanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
Decanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
Dodecanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
Hexadecanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
Octadecanoic & 2 & 3 & 3 & 0.18 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}
-
2in preamble i would add
\usepackage[version=4]{mhchem}
and then instead ofSiO\textsubscript{2}
or(H-SiO\textsubscript{2})
write\ce{SiO2}
and\ce{H-SiO2}
respectively ...– ZarkoMay 24, 2018 at 13:03 -