Photocatalytic systems as an advanced environmental remediation: Recent developments, limitations and new avenues for applications

R Ahmad, Z Ahmad, AU Khan, NR Mastoi… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Heterogeneous photocatalysis is a promising technology especially for environmental
remediation. Despite more than a decade of worldwide research in developing …

Block copolymer self-assembly for nanophotonics

M Stefik, S Guldin, S Vignolini, U Wiesner… - Chemical Society …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability to control and modulate the interaction of light with matter is crucial to achieve
desired optical properties including reflection, transmission, and selective polarization …

Recent progress in high refractive index polymers

T Higashihara, M Ueda - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
High refractive index polymers have been widely developed in recent years for their
potential applications in advanced optoelectronic fabrications, such as high performance …

High refractive index polymers: fundamental research and practical applications

J Liu, M Ueda - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Rapid developments in advanced photonic devices have led to the increasing exploration of
high refractive index (high-n) materials, particularly high-refractive-index polymers (HRIP) …

Optical characterizations of PMMA/metal oxide nanoparticles thin films: bandgap engineering using a novel derived model

QM Al-Bataineh, AA Ahmad, AM Alsaad, AD Telfah - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
We synthesize and optically characterize pure PMMA and PMMA incorporated with metal
oxides nanoparticles (MO NPs) such as ZnO, CuO, TiO 2 and SiO 2 NPs nanocomposite thin …

Photocatalytic, superhydrophilic, self-cleaning TiO2 coating on cheap, light-weight, flexible polycarbonate substrates

T Adachi, SS Latthe, SW Gosavi, N Roy, N Suzuki… - Applied Surface …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Photocatalytic TiO 2/SiO 2 coatings with excellent superhydrophilic wettability were
prepared on light-weight polycarbonate substrates for self-cleaning applications. The effect …

Transparent superhydrophobic films based on silica nanoparticles

J Bravo, L Zhai, Z Wu, RE Cohen, MF Rubner - Langmuir, 2007 - ACS Publications
We demonstrate a layer-by-layer processing scheme that can be utilized to create
transparent superhydrophobic films from SiO2 nanoparticles of various sizes. By controlling …

3-D printed millimeter-wave and terahertz lenses with fixed and frequency scanned beam

H Yi, SW Qu, KB Ng, CH Chan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-gain and beam-scanning antennas are extremely important in the applications of
millimeter-wave (MMW) and terahertz (THz) technologies. Dielectric lens is a suitable …

TiO 2 nanocomposites with high refractive index and transparency

P Tao, Y Li, A Rungta, A Viswanath, J Gao… - Journal of Materials …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Transparent polymer nanocomposites with high refractive index were prepared by grafting
polymer chains onto anatase TiO2 nanoparticlesvia a combination of phosphate ligand …

High refractive index organic–inorganic nanocomposites: design, synthesis and application

C Lü, B Yang - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic–inorganic nanocomposites with high refractive index (RI) are typically constructed
by integrating high RI inorganic nanoscale building blocks into a processable, transparent …