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Coatings, Volume 3, Issue 3

September 2013 - 4 articles

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Characterisation Studies of the Structure and Properties of As-Deposited and Annealed Pulsed Magnetron Sputtered Titania Coatings

  • Justyna Kulczyk-Malecka,
  • Peter J. Kelly,
  • Glen West,
  • Gregory C.B. Clarke and
  • John A. Ridealgh
Coatings2013, 3(3), 166-176;https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings3030166

10 September 2013

Titanium dioxide thin films are durable, chemically stable, have a high refractive index and good electro/photochemical proprieties. Consequently, they are widely used as anti-reflective layers in optical devices and large area glazing products, die...

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An Investigation into W or Nb or ZnFe2O4 Doped Titania Nanocomposites Deposited from Blended Powder Targets for UV/Visible Photocatalysis

  • Nick Farahani,
  • Peter J. Kelly,
  • Glen West,
  • Marina Ratova,
  • Claire Hill and
  • Vladimir Vishnyakov
Coatings2013, 3(3), 153-165;https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings3030153

14 August 2013

The photocatalytic behavior of titania coatings is largely determined by their crystalline structure. Depending on deposition conditions, though, titania may form amorphous, brookite, anatase or rutile structures, with anatase or anatase/rutile mixed...

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Electrochemical Synthesis of Nitro-Chitosan and Its Performance in Chromium Removal

  • Prashant K. Jha,
  • Gary P. Halada and
  • Scott M. McLennan
Coatings2013, 3(3), 140-152;https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings3030140

19 July 2013

A synthesized polymeric form of chitosan, electrochemically precipitated and photochemically modified, has been found to have significant value in removal of toxic chromate oxyanions from solution. Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR), Raman and X-ray...

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AZO Thin Films by Sol-Gel Process for Integrated Optics

  • Lamia Znaidi,
  • Tahar Touam,
  • Dominique Vrel,
  • Nacer Souded,
  • Sana Ben Yahia,
  • Ovidiu Brinza,
  • Alexis Fischer and
  • Azzedine Boudrioua
Coatings2013, 3(3), 126-139;https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings3030126

3 July 2013

Undoped and aluminum-doped zinc oxide (AZO) thin films are prepared by the sol-gel process. Zinc acetate dihydrate, ethanol, and monoethanolamine are used as precursor, solvent, and stabilizer, respectively. In the case of AZO, aluminum nitrate nona...

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