Materials with the desirable surface wettability are of key importance in diverse applications.
However, most of the existing chemical processes used for surface wettability control are …

Super-hydrophilicity is a desired but rarely reported surface finish of polymer materials, so
the methods for achieving such a property represent a great scientific and technological …

Due to the emerging resistance of microorganisms and viruses to conventional treatments,
the importance of self-disinfecting materials is highly increasing. Such materials could be …

Plasma polymers are unconventional organic thin films which only partially share the
properties traditionally attributed to polymeric materials. For instance, they do not consist of …

Al/Al x O y and Ti/TiO x nanoparticles have been fabricated using gas aggregation cluster
source (GAS) equipped with 3-inch planar magnetrons. The main attention has been …

Nanoparticles (NPs) of different types, especially those of metals and metal oxides, are
widely used in research and industry for a variety of applications utilising their unique …

Silver nanoparticle-based antibacterial nanocomposite coatings were fabricated by means
of gas aggregation source of Ag nanoparticles and plasma-enhanced chemical vapour …

A novel hydrophobic cellulose-based organic/inorganic nanomaterial (cellulose/TS-POSS)
was prepared by oxygen plasma treatment followed by condensation reaction with …

Magnetron sputtering is a well-known technique that is commonly used for the deposition of
thin compact films. However, as was shown in the 1990s, when sputtering is performed at …

One of the long-standing problems for nanoparticle-based liquid-repellent coatings is their
poor adhesion to substrates. For polymers with low glass transition temperatures, it is highly …