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Materials, Volume 18, Issue 2

January-2 2025 - 255 articles

Cover Story: The heterojunctions between BiVO4 nanomaterials and benchmark photocatalysts has been keenly pursued as a promising approach to improve the photoelectrocatalytic degradation of recalcitrant pharmaceuticals. Herein, a heterostructured TiO2/Mo-BiVO4 bilayer photoanode was fabricated by depositing a mesoporous TiO2 overlayer on top of Mo-doped BiVO4 porous films, which absorb light below 490 nm, while offering improved charge transport. The bilayer photoelectrode presented significantly enhanced photocatalytic performance on the degradation of the refractory ibuprofen drug with respect to the additive effect of the constituent layers, which was related to the enhanced light harvesting via backscattering by the mesoporous TiO2 layer in combination with the favorable charge transfer at the TiO2/Mo-BiVO4 interface. View this paper
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Articles (255)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,548 Views
18 Pages

20 January 2025

To improve the mechanical and durability properties of low liquid limit soil, an eco-friendly, all-solid, waste-based stabilizer (GSCFC) was proposed using five different industrial solid wastes: ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS), steel sla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,184 Views
20 Pages

Treatment and Valorization of Waste Wind Turbines: Component Identification and Analysis

  • Xiaohan Zhao,
  • Daria Pakuła,
  • Miłosz Frydrych,
  • Roksana Konieczna,
  • Bogna Sztorch,
  • Rafał Kozera,
  • Hongzhi Liu,
  • Hui Zhou and
  • Robert E. Przekop

20 January 2025

Recycling end-of-life wind turbines poses a significant challenge due to the increasing number of turbines going out of use. After many years of operation, turbines lose their functional properties, generating a substantial amount of composite waste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,565 Views
16 Pages

20 January 2025

Hydrogen embrittlement is a critical issue for zirconium alloys, which receives long-term attention in their applications. The formation of brittle hydrides facilitates crack initiation and propagation, thereby significantly reducing the material&rsq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,055 Views
16 Pages

20 January 2025

Sigmoid functions are widely used for the description of viscoelastic material properties of asphalt mixtures. Unfortunately, there are still no known closed functions for describing connections among model parameters in the time and the frequency do...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,291 Views
25 Pages

Investigating the Detachment of Glazed Ceramic Tiles Used in Buildings: A Brazilian Case Study

  • Renato Freua Sahade,
  • Priscila R. M. Leal,
  • Sérgio S. Lima,
  • Paulo Sérgio da Silva and
  • Carlos R. C. Lima

20 January 2025

Ceramic detachments in cladding systems are indicative of adhesion loss between the ceramic tiles and the substrate or its adhesive mortar due to inadequate quality workmanship, the quality of the adhesive mortar or that of the ceramic material, whet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,495 Views
9 Pages

Hybrids of Deep HOMO Organic Cyanoacrylic Acid Dyes and Graphene Nanomaterials for Water Splitting Photoanodes

  • Alejandro Ansón-Casaos,
  • Ana M. Benito,
  • Wolfgang K. Maser,
  • Jesús Orduna,
  • Belén Villacampa and
  • María-Jesús Blesa

20 January 2025

Dye-sensitization is a promising strategy to improve the light absorption and photoactivity abilities of wide-bandgap semiconductors, like TiO2. For effective water-splitting photoanodes with no sacrificial agents, the electrochemical potential of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,580 Views
20 Pages

Complex Inhibitor Protection of Some Steels in Hydrochloric Acid Solutions by 1,2,4-Triazole Derivatives

  • Yaroslav G. Avdeev,
  • Tatyana A. Nenasheva,
  • Andrey Y. Luchkin,
  • Andrey I. Marshakov and
  • Yurii I. Kuznetsov

20 January 2025

The behavior of low-carbon steels (LCSs), a high-strength steel and a nickel–chromium alloy in HCl solutions in the presence of N-containing organic substances has been studied. N-containing organic substances that comprise 1,2,4-triazole in th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,285 Views
11 Pages

20 January 2025

Bolted joints, prevalent in industrial applications for component fastening, are susceptible to self-loosening—a critical issue resulting in a gradual reduction in clamping force. Gaining insight into the underlying mechanisms of self-loosening...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,382 Views
23 Pages

From Powders to Performance—A Comprehensive Study of Two Advanced Cutting Tool Materials Sintered with Pressure Assisted Methods

  • Kinga Momot,
  • Piotr Klimczyk,
  • Beata Leszczyńska-Madej,
  • Marcin Podsiadło,
  • Yuliia Rumiantseva and
  • Agnieszka Gubernat

20 January 2025

This paper presents a comprehensive study of two tool materials designed for the machining of Inconel 718 superalloy, produced through two distinct sintering techniques: High Pressure–High Temperature (HPHT) sintering and Spark Plasma Sintering...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,167 Views
31 Pages

Size Distribution of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles Depending on the Temperature of Electrochemical Synthesis

  • Michał Hajos,
  • Maria Starowicz,
  • Beata Brzychczyk,
  • Grzegorz Basista and
  • Sławomir Francik

20 January 2025

One of the methods for obtaining zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) is electrochemical synthesis. In this study, the anodic dissolution process of metallic zinc in alcohol solutions of LiCl was used to synthesize ZnO NPs. The products were obtained a...

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