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Coatings, Volume 7, Issue 3

2017 March - 11 articles

Cover Story: Printable perovskite solar cells with carbon counter electrodes demonstrate enormous potential for achieving high efficiency, long lifetime and low manufacturing costs which may lead to future commercialization. In this study, we grew a conformal Mg(OH)2 coating by the electrodeposition method on mesoporous TiO2 and investigated the effect of this insulating oxide on its photovoltaic device performance. View this paper.
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Articles (11)

  • Review
  • Open Access
75 Citations
14,923 Views
22 Pages

Ti and its alloys are the most commonly-used materials for biomedical applications. However, bacterial infection after implant placement is still one of the significant rising complications. Therefore, the application of the antimicrobial agents into...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,757 Views
23 Pages

Investigation of a Simplified Mechanism Model for Prediction of Gallium Nitride Thin Film Growth through Numerical Analysis

  • Chih-Kai Hu,
  • Chun-Jung Chen,
  • Ta-Chin Wei,
  • Tomi T. Li and ,
  • Ching-Chiun Wang and
  • Chih-Yung Huang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

A numerical procedure was performed to simplify the complicated mechanism of an epitaxial thin-film growth process. In this study, three numerical mechanism models are presented for verifying the growth rate of the gallium nitride (GaN) mechanism. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chemical Vapor Deposition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,736 Views
6 Pages

High-Temperature Corrosion of AlCrSiN Film in Ar-1%SO2 Gas

  • Poonam Yadav,
  • Dong Bok Lee,
  • Yue Lin,
  • Shihong Zhang and
  • Sik Chol Kwon

AlCrSiN film with a composition of 29.1Al-17.1Cr-2.1Si-51.7N in at. % was deposited on a steel substrate by cathodic arc ion plating at a thickness of 1.8 μm. It consisted of nanocrystalline hcp-AlN and fcc-CrN, where a small amount of Si was dissolv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coatings for Corrosion Mitigation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
11,283 Views
15 Pages

Defect-Free Large-Area (25 cm2) Light Absorbing Perovskite Thin Films Made by Spray Coating

  • Mehran Habibi,
  • Amin Rahimzadeh,
  • Inas Bennouna and
  • Morteza Eslamian

In this work, we report on reproducible fabrication of defect-free large-area mixed halide perovskite (CH3NH3PbI3−xClx) thin films by scalable spray coating with the area of 25 cm2. This is essential for the commercialization of the perovskite solar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Spray Coating in Fabrication of Thin Film Devices and Coatings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
11,504 Views
12 Pages

We evaluated the applicability of metal spray coating as a waterproofing/corrosion protection method for a concrete structure used for water purification. We carried out an ozone resistance test on four metal sprays and evaluated the water permeabili...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surface Treatments and Coatings for Structural Steel and Reinforced Concrete)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7,035 Views
8 Pages

In order to reduce the high costs of conventional materials, and to reduce the power necessary for the deposition of titanium dioxide, titanium tetrabutoxide has been developed in the form of a suspension of TiO2 using water instead of expensive etha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Five Years of Coatings: Coatings Science and Technology for the 21st Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,958 Views
11 Pages

Influence of the Electrolyte Concentration on the Smooth TiO2 Anodic Coatings on Ti-6Al-4V

  • María Laura Vera,
  • Ángeles Colaccio,
  • Mario Roberto Rosenberger,
  • Carlos Enrique Schvezov and
  • Alicia Esther Ares

To obtain smooth TiO2 coatings for building a new design of Ti-6Al-4V heart valve, the anodic oxidation technique in pre-spark conditions was evaluated. TiO2 coating is necessary for its recognized biocompatibility and corrosion resistance. A require...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Five Years of Coatings: Coatings Science and Technology for the 21st Century)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,268 Views
12 Pages

This study describes preparation and characterization of fluorine-containing organic-inorganic hybrid coatings. The organic part consists of bisphenol-A glycerolate (1 glycerol/phenol) diacrylate resin and 1,6-hexanediol diacrylate reactive diluent....

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,745 Views
9 Pages

Performance evaluation is an important aspect in the study of microwave-absorbing material coatings. The reflectivity of the incident wave is usually taken as the performance indicator. There have been various methods to directly or indirectly measur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,608 Views
8 Pages

Effect of Electrochemically Deposited MgO Coating on Printable Perovskite Solar Cell Performance

  • T. A. Nirmal Peiris,
  • Ajay K. Baranwal,
  • Hiroyuki Kanda,
  • Shouta Fukumoto and ,
  • Shusaku Kanaya,
  • Takeru Bessho,
  • Ludmila Cojocaru,
  • Tsutomu Miyasaka,
  • Hiroshi Segawa and
  • Seigo Ito
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

27 February 2017

Herein, we studied the effect of MgO coating thickness on the performance of printable perovskite solar cells (PSCs) by varying the electrodeposition time of Mg(OH)2 on the fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO)/TiO2 electrode. Electrodeposited Mg(OH)2 in th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thin Film Semiconductors for Photovoltaic Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
8,389 Views
17 Pages

24 February 2017

Metallic coatings using thermal spraying techniques are widely applied to structural steels to protect infrastructure against corrosion and improve durability of the associated structures for longer service life. The thermal sprayed metallic coatings...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coatings for Corrosion Mitigation)
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