Deposition of Conformal Catalyst Coatings on Porous Electrodes Using a Layer-By-Layer Surface Sol-Gel Process

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 632-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismael J. Gomez ◽  
W. Brandon Goodwin ◽  
Dan Sabo ◽  
Z. John Zhang ◽  
Kenneth H. Sandhage ◽  
...  

Layer-by-layer surface sol-gel chemistry and controlled thermal treatment allow for careful adjustment of the amount, type, and crystal size of iron oxide in pollen replicas, giving the biogenic magnetic particles tunable adhesion characteristics.


2000 ◽  
Vol 655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian-Gong Cheng ◽  
Jun Tang ◽  
Shao-Ling Guo ◽  
Jun-Hao Chu

AbstractBa0.8Sr0.2TiO3 thin films that are suitable for infrared detector applications have been prepared with a sol-gel process using a highly diluted precursor solution. Columnar structure with grain size close to 200 nm was obtained with layer-by-layer homoepitaxy due to a very small thickness of individual layer. The measured pyroelecrtic coefficient is larger than 3.1×10划4 C/m2K at the temperatures ranging from 10 to 26 °C and reaches the maximum value of 4.1×10划4 C/m2K at 16.8 °C. The infrared detectivity of 4.6×107 cmHz1/2W划1 has been obtained at 19 °C and 10 Hz in the Ba0.8Sr0.2TiO3 films deposited on thick (500 μm) platinum coated silicon substrates. The better infrared response can be expected by the improvement in the thermal isolation of pyroelectric element and the electrode materials.


RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (14) ◽  
pp. 10647-10655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Wang ◽  
Manuel Quintero Romero ◽  
Xiu-Qin Zhang ◽  
Rui Wang ◽  
De-Yi Wang

A new intumescent coating is layer-by-layer deposited on cotton, leading to fire being extinguished after ignition on the fabric during vertical fire testing.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Zhenzhong Chen ◽  
Jia Li ◽  
Zheng Zhang ◽  
Jun-fa Liang ◽  
Qizhi Luo ◽  
...  

Double-shell tubular on-dimensional structure can be fabricated through a layer by layer method, in which the core template was removed to create the tubular shape. In this paper, we report, for the first time, the double nanoshell SiO2/TiO2 hollow tubes prepared through a layer-by-layer deposition method involving the sol-gel process for the SiO2 and TiO2 generation. During TEOS and TEOT hydrolysis/condensation for the SiO2 and TiO2 shell layer formation, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) is adopted both as the structure-directing template and as the mesopore-channel template distributing around the shell. The obtained double-nanoshell hollow tubes illustrate a large surface area and high pore volume. Also, mesoporous double-nanoshell SiO2/TiO2 hollow tubes have the inner and outer shell thickness of about 80 nm and 120 nm, respectively. Plus, the shell thickness of SiO2 and TiO2 is controllable depending on the used concentration of TEOS and TEOT during their sol-gel process. Therefore, the technique for the preparation of SiO2/TiO2 mesoporous double-nanoshell hollow tubes could provide new insights into the construction of mesoporous double-shell and hollow structure for other multicomponent and hierarchical hybrid systems.


2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 1923-1925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenfu Yan ◽  
Shannon M. Mahurin ◽  
Steven H. Overbury ◽  
Sheng Dai

Author(s):  
J.M. Schwartz ◽  
L.F. Francis ◽  
L.D. Schmidt ◽  
P.S. Schabes-Retchkiman

Ceramic thin films and coatings are of interest for electrical, optical, magnetic and thermal barrier applications. Critical for improved properties in thin films is the development of specific microstructures during processing. To this end, the sol-gel method is advantageous as a versatile processing route. The sol-gel process involves depositing a solution containing metalorganic or colloidal ceramic precursors onto a substrate and heating the deposited layer to form a crystalline or non-crystalline ceramic coating. This route has several advantages, including the ability to create tailored microstructures and properties, to coat large or small areas, simple or complex shapes, and to more easily prepare multicomponent ceramics. Sol-gel derived coatings are amorphous in the as-deposited state and develop their crystalline structure and microstructure during heat-treatment. We are particularly interested in studying the amorphous to crystalline transformation, because many key features of the microstructure such as grain size and grain size distribution may be linked to this transformation.


1999 ◽  
Vol 606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keishi Nishio ◽  
Jirawat Thongrueng ◽  
Yuichi Watanabe ◽  
Toshio Tsuchiya

AbstructWe succeeded in the preparation of strontium-barium niobate (Sr0.3Ba0.7Nb2O6 : SBN30)that have a tetragonal tungsten bronze type structure thin films on SrTiO3 (100), STO, or La doped SrTiO3 (100), LSTO, single crystal substrates by a spin coating process. LSTO substrate can be used for electrode. A homogeneous coating solution was prepared with Sr and Ba acetates and Nb(OEt)5 as raw materials, and acetic acid and diethylene glycol monomethyl ether as solvents. The coating thin films were sintered at temperature from 700 to 1000°C for 10 min in air. It was confirmed that the thin films on STO substrate sintered above 700°C were in the epitaxial growth because the 16 diffraction spots were observed on the pole figure using (121) reflection. The <130> and <310> direction of the thin film on STO were oriented with the c-axis in parallel to the substrate surface. However, the diffraction spots of thin film on LSTO substrate sintered at 700°C were corresponds to the expected pattern for (110).


2000 ◽  
Vol 628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang-Way Jang ◽  
Ren-Jye Wu ◽  
Yuung-Ching Sheen ◽  
Ya-Hui Lin ◽  
Chi-Jung Chang

This work successfully prepared an UV curable organic-inorganic hybrid material consisting of organic modified colloidal silica. Applications of UV curable organic-inorganic hybrid materials include abrasion resistant coatings, photo-patternable thin films and waveguides. Colloidal silica containing reactive functional groups were also prepared by reacting organic silane and tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) using sol-gel process. In addition, the efficiency of grafting organic moiety onto silica nanoparticles was investigated by applying TGA and FTIR techniques. Experimental results indicated a strong interdependence between surface modification efficiency and solution pH. Acrylate-SiO2 hybrid formation could result in a shifting of thermal degradation temperature of organic component from about 200°C to near 400°C. In addition, the stability of organic modified colloidal silica in UV curable formula and the physical properties of resulting coatings were discussed. Furthermore, the morphology of organic modified colloidal silica was investigated by performing TEM and SEM studies‥


2003 ◽  
Vol 771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amir Fardad ◽  
Wei Liang ◽  
Yadong Zhang ◽  
Bryson Case ◽  
Shibin Jiang ◽  
...  

AbstractFluorinated and photo-imageable precursors are synthesized through a Barbier-Grignard reaction for 1550-nm window. The precursors are used for the sol-gel process of integrated optic components for silica-on-silicon technology. Material compositions and process parameters are optimized to achieve internal absorptions >0.1 dB/cm and propagation losses of about 0.5 dB/cm at 1550 nm. Compact 1×16 Beam splitters are designed and fabricated which exhibit >0.3 dB power uniformity, >0.1 dB PDL and 1.5 dB coupling loss. By hybrid integration of the passive splitters and in-house fiber amplifiers, amplifying splitters are demonstrated at various signal intensities.


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