Coatings, Volume 9, Issue 2

Ni–Co coatings have gained widespread attention due to their potential in replacing hard chromium deposits (which have traditionally utilized toxic and corrosive chromic acid baths). A major challenge is to lower the high coefficient of frictio...

Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) arrays have become one of low-dimensional structural nanomaterials for the preparation of high-performance optoelectronic devices with the advantages of highly efficient light trapping effect, carrier multiplication, and adj...

Modern optical fiber required a double-layer resin coating on the glass fiber to provide protection from signal attenuation and mechanical damage. The most important plastics resin used in coating of fiber optics are plasticized polyvinyle (PVC), low...

Hollow core microbubble structures are good candidates for the construction of high performance whispering gallery microresonator and Fabry-Perot (FP) interference devices. In the previous reports, most of interest was just focused on the dual-ended...

Herein, low-density polyethylene (LDPE) films were treated using radio-frequency plasma discharge in the presence of air, nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and their mixtures to introduce new chemical functionalities. The surface properties of treated LDPE we...

The ultrasonic array used for thin-walled structure non-destructive inspection usually has a high central frequency so that the thickness-to-acoustic wavelength ratio is greater than 10. When the ratio is much smaller than 10, the reliability of the...

Porous hydroxyapatite as a drug carrier is very popular and has many clinical applications. However, traditional hydroxyapatite materials have limited osteogenic capacity. Therefore, the development of a new hydroxyapatite drug delivery system is ess...

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This paper describes a study conducted to evaluate the effect of texturing of the surface of concrete substrate on the pull-off strength (f_b) of epoxy resin coating. The paper investigates a total of seventeen types of textures: after grooving, impri...

Palm biodiesel is a currently used biofuel, principally as an additive or substitute of diesel fuel in vehicular internal combustion engines. In the present work, vanadium carbide (VC) coatings were deposited on gray cast iron (GCI) using the thermor...

Aluminum antimony (AlSb) is a promising photovoltaic material with a band gap of about 1.62 eV. However, AlSb is highly deliquescent and not stable, which has brought great difficulties to the applications. Based on the above situation, there are two...

While p-type transparent conducting materials (TCMs) are crucial for many optoelectronic applications, their performance is still not satisfactory. This has impeded the development of many devices such as photovoltaics, sensors, and transparent elect...

Atmospheric plasma spray (APS) yttria-stabilized zirconia coatings have a complex microstructure with a variety of pores that significantly reduce the thermal conductivity. APS thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) with a similar monoclinic phase were prep...

Cellulose nanofibers were modified by TiO₂ gel layer (~25 nm in thickness) via hydrolysis reaction on the surface of the cellulose nanofibers. After the TiO₂ coating, the surface charge of the nanofiber dramatically changed from negative to positive....

The feasibility of alleviating torsional fretting wear of the blade bearing by preparing PVD TiCN coating was studied. The results show that the friction torque was highly influenced by the wear debris acting as the solid lubricant. The TiCN coating...

The Fe/B/F tridoped TiO₂-ZnO composite films attached to glass substrates were prepared via a simple sol–gel method. We appraised all samples’ photocatalytic activities by the degradation of methyl green and formaldehyde solutions. The sa...

The aim of this work is to provide an insight into the impact of the P1 shunt on the performance of ZnO/CdS/Cu(In,Ga)Se₂/Mo modules with monolithic interconnects. The P1 scribe is a pattern that separates the back contact of two adjacent cells and is...

Friction stir processing (FSP) is a novel solid-phase processing technique that is derived from friction stir welding (FSW). The microstructure of the base metal can be modified with the friction heat and stir function during processing. It can be us...

In the current study, Cu₂ZnSnS₄ (CZTS) thin film was successfully fabricated by the facile nanocrystals (NCs)-printing approach combined with rapid thermal annealing (RTA) process. Firstly, the CZTS NCs were synthesized by a thermal solution method a...

Granite stones are the most abundant rock of the crust. Due to their beauty, durability, and virtually zero maintenance, they have been used widely since ancient times in all types of construction, as a structural or decorative element. Commonly, thi...

Spalted wood, wood colored by fungi, has been popular in woodcraft for centuries. Most spalted wood, however, is found in an advanced state of decay and cannot be utilized. This project describes the use of viscoelastic thermal compression (VTC) to i...

Metal deterioration via corrosion is a ubiquitous and persistent problem. Ångström-scale, atomically thin 2D materials are promising candidates for effective, robust, and economical corrosion passivation coatings due to their ultimate thin...

Low-temperature plasma-treated porcine grafts (PGPT) may be an effective means for treating demanding osseous defects and enhance our understanding of plasma-tissue engineering. We chemically characterized porcine grafts under low-temperature Argon p...

A diamond-like carbon (DLC) film with a nanostructured surface can be produced in a two-step process. At first, a metal-containing DLC film is deposited. Here, the combination of plasma source ion implantation using a hydrocarbon gas and magnetron sp...

A port is an intermodal system in which many logistics activities requiring properly constructed areas occur. The large extension of these areas poses a major problem in choosing materials with technical and economic implications. Choice and design o...

Paraffin wax emulsions have gained immense attention as a cheap, environment-friendly, and aroma-free material for preparing superhydrophobic coatings. In this work, paraffin wax (PWs) capsules consisting of hydrophobic silica nanoparticles were used...

Environmental noise is one of the problems modern societies face today. Traffic noise, especially the noise produced from tire/pavement interaction, plays a main role in environmental noise. Pavement rehabilitation with new bituminous mixtures is a g...

In this paper, the electric and thermoelectric properties of thin films of germanium–gold alloy (Ge–Au) are discussed in terms of choosing the optimal deposition process and post-processing conditions to obtain Ge–Au layers with the...

Two commercial waterborne wood acrylic paints were applied to wood samples and the weathering resistance of samples was tested using four different weathering methods: outdoor exposure in Arizona (USA), Florida (USA), and the province of Quebec (Cana...

There is a wide range of self-healing mechanisms that provide the recovery of specific functionalities in coatings. Moreover, it is well known that computational simulation is a complementary tool that can help in the optimization and cost reduction...

This paper focuses on the surface properties of a-C:H:Cu composite coatings for medical devices and how the release of Cu²⁺ ions from such coatings can be controlled. The released Cu ions have the potential to act as a bactericidal agent and inhibit...

Nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) films play an important role in nanotechnology due to their easily adjustable morphological properties and wide range of applications. Thus, a deep and systematic characterization of the morphological properties...

This paper presents the influence of an inorganic Al₂O₃ layer over MoS₂ particles on the tribological performance of electroless Ni–P–MoS₂/Al₂O₃ composite coatings fabricated without using surfactants. The Al₂O₃-coated MoS₂ particles were...

Condensation occurs in most of the heat transfer processes, ranging from cooling of electronics to heat rejection in power plants. Therefore, any improvement in condensation processes will be reflected in the minimization of global energy consumption...

Cu–Mn–Dy resistive thin films were prepared on glass and Al₂O₃ substrates, which was achieved by co-sputtering the Cu–Mn alloy and dysprosium targets. The effects of the addition of dysprosium on the electrical properties and micros...

Aluminum trihydrate (ATH) is one of the most widely used fillers in solvent-borne coatings and polymer industries. To investigate its performance in powder coatings, four different pigment to binder ratios (P/B) were used in respect to different ATH...

Photoinduced elementary reactions of low-MW compounds in polymers is an area of active research. Cured organic polymer coatings often undergo photodegradation by free-radical paths. Besides practical importance, such studies teach how the polymer env...

With the aim of establishing a protocol for evaluating the efficacy of antifouling paints on different organisms, a flow-through laboratory test using triangular boxes was developed for cyprids of the barnacle Amphibalanus (=Balanus) amphitrite. Six...

The hydrotalcite (HT) film is a promising bioactive coating for magnesium alloys. In the present study, we investigate the corrosion behavior of HT film in the simulated body fluid (SBF), and compare with which in NaCl solution. The HT film can provi...

Vitrimers are covalent network materials, comparable in structure to classical thermosets. Unlike normal thermosets, they possess a chemical bond swap mechanism that makes their structure dynamic and suitable for activated welding and even autonomous...

MoSN/MoS₂ multilayer films were deposited by a sputtering MoS₂ target in alternate Ar and Ar/N₂ mixed atmospheres with different nitrogen flow rates. The influence of nitrogen flow rates on the microstructure, mechanical and tribological properties o...

Ti-based ceramic coatings on Ti6Al4V substrates were successfully prepared through a laser cladding process using pre-placed starting materials of TiCN + SiO₂ mixed powder without or with adding a 3 wt % CeO₂ nanoparticles additive, aiming at improvi...

The effects of annealing temperature on the structural, surface morphological and nanomechanical properties of Cu-doped (Cu-10 at %) NiO thin films grown on glass substrates by radio-frequency magnetron sputtering are investigated in this study. The...

Carbon-based materials is considered one of the oldest and extensively studied research areas related to gas adsorption, energy storage and wastewater treatment for removing organic and inorganic contaminants. Efficient adsorption on activated carbon...

The first academic studies on the use of microorganisms in cleaning procedures appeared in the late 1980s/early 1990s. In the past thirty years, most of such studies have addressed the removal of nitrate and sulphate salts and organic matter from sur...

In order to assemble effective protective coatings against corrosion, electrochemical techniques such as linear potentiometry and cyclic voltammetry were performed on a copper surface in 0.1 mol·L⁻¹ HCl solution containing 0.1% polyvinyl...

The aim of this work is to determine the influence of medium frequency magnetron sputtering powers on the various properties of hafnium dioxide (HfO₂) thin films. Microstructure observations show that an increase in the sputtering power has a signifi...

Nonlinear optical properties (self-saturable absorption and reverse-saturable absorption) of diamond-like carbon films with variable amounts of embedded copper nanoparticle (DLC:Cu) films deposited by high power pulse magnetron sputtering were studie...

Thermal conductivity of porous thermal barrier coatings was evaluated using a newly developed five-phase model. It was demonstrated that porosities distributed in coating strongly affect thermal conductivity. The decisive reason for this change in th...

Yttrium oxide (Y₂O₃) and yttrium oxyfluoride (YO_0.6F_2.1) protective coatings were prepared by an atmospheric plasma spraying technique. The coatings were exposed to a NF₃ plasma. After the NF₃ plasma treatment, the mass loss of the coatings showed th...