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Coatings, Volume 13, Issue 6

June 2023 - 161 articles

Cover Story: Porous nanocolumnar thin films are well-known for possessing larger specific surfaces than their compact counterparts. This feature has prompted their numerous applications, e.g., gas or liquid sensors, optical coatings, electrodes, or instruments for fluid manipulation, among others. The control of the pore features of these layers represents a key issue, as it directly affects the film's performance. Quantities such as the void volume, the accessible pore volume, or the actual specific area of the pores in contact with the outside environment have been studied as a function of the deposition conditions for nanocolumnar thin films grown by the magnetron sputtering technique at oblique angles. An important divergence has been found in the growth conditions that optimize the micro- and mesoporosity of the accessible pores of the films, which explains different results in the literature. View this paper
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Articles (161)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,221 Views
14 Pages

Kinetic Modelling of Powder-Pack Boronized 4Cr5MoSiV1 Steel by Two Distinct Approaches

  • Katia Benyakoub,
  • Mourad Keddam,
  • Brahim Boumaali and
  • Michał Kulka

20 June 2023

This work attempts to model the powder-pack boronizing kinetics of 4Cr5MoSiV1 steel in the interval of 1133 and 1253 K in order to predict the layers’ thicknesses. The first approach is referred to as the bilayer model and relies on the conserv...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,754 Views
17 Pages

Steel Surface Doped with Nb via Modulated Electron-Beam Irradiation: Structure and Properties

  • Maxim Sergeevich Vorobyov,
  • Elizaveta Alekseevna Petrikova,
  • Vladislav Igorevich Shin,
  • Pavel Vladimirovich Moskvin,
  • Yurii Fedorovich Ivanov,
  • Nikolay Nikolaevich Koval,
  • Tamara Vasil`evna Koval,
  • Nikita Andreevich Prokopenko,
  • Ruslan Aleksandrovich Kartavtsov and
  • Dmitry Alekseevich Shpanov

20 June 2023

A niobium film on an AISI 5135 steel substrate was exposed to submillisecond pulsed electron-beam irradiation with controlled energy modulation within a pulse to increase the film–substrate adhesion. This modulated irradiation made it possible...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,146 Views
12 Pages

Generation of Hybrid Lead Halide CH3NH3PbI3-xClx Perovskite Crystals via Convective Self-Assembly

  • Ioan Petrovai,
  • Otto Todor-Boer,
  • Adriana Vulpoi,
  • Leontin David and
  • Ioan Botiz

20 June 2023

In this study, we have employed a film deposition technique based on convective forces acting at the triple air–solution–substrate contact line to tune the rate of solvent evaporation and, thus, to exert control over the morphology of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,266 Views
11 Pages

20 June 2023

Large amounts of water, synthetic dyestuffs and chemicals are used in the wet processes of textile finishing, and at the end of these processes, liquors containing chemical substances create a waste load. For this reason, it is of great importance to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,127 Views
13 Pages

Photoconductive Response to Pulsed UV Light of CsPbCl3 Flexible Thin Films Grown by Magnetron Sputtering

  • Mara Bruzzi,
  • Naomi Falsini,
  • Nicola Calisi,
  • Paolo Scardi and
  • Anna Vinattieri

20 June 2023

CsPbCl3 perovskite is attracting increasing interest in ultraviolet (UV) detection due to its optical band gap and superior intrinsic optoelectronic properties. In this study, a novel one-step magnetron sputtering technique was applied for fabricatin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,094 Views
18 Pages

19 June 2023

In this paper, mesoporous electrodes consisting of Sb-doped SnO2 deposited onto Ti plates that had undergone controlled corrosion under acidic medium were synthesized via a spin-coating method and morpho-structurally characterized via X-ray diffracti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,170 Views
15 Pages

Preparation of Nitrogen-Doped ZnFe2O4-Modified Carbon Composite and Its Collaborative Energy Storage Mechanism

  • Li Wang,
  • Baobao Li,
  • Hongyu Bai,
  • Hong Ding,
  • Na Xu,
  • Chaofan Yin,
  • Jingjing Xiong,
  • Zhiwei Yang,
  • Xianfa Rao and
  • Binbin Dong

19 June 2023

The pyrolytic carbon of polymer adsorbent resin (SAP) is used as a waste carbon source, which can be used as a porous carbon network via pyrolysis to remove surface sodium carbonate and other substances. In this paper, a ZnFe2O4/nitrogen-doped porous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,299 Views
16 Pages

19 June 2023

Natural dyes play an important role in sustainable dyeing processes. However, natural yellow dyes with good performance are rare. Traditional natural yellow dyes have issues, such as a narrow color range and poor light fastness. In this paper, a new...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,457 Views
14 Pages

19 June 2023

In this paper, for the first time, a CoNi2O4 nanocatalyst coated on the surface of activated carbon wheat husk (ACWH) was synthesized in the form of CoNi2O4/ACWH through a hydrothermal process. The electrocatalytic activity of this catalyst was evalu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,301 Views
14 Pages

19 June 2023

In this paper, the solar absorption level of PEDOT:PSS/Ge organic and inorganic hybrid solar cells (HSCs) with different parameters of cruciform microstructure (CM) is studied, using the finite-difference time domain (FDTD) method. The light absorpti...

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