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Laura Bergamonti, Marianna Potenza, Federica Scigliuzzo, Sandro Meli, Antonella Casoli, Pier Paolo Lottici and Claudia Graiff
TiO2/OrMoSil-based coatings can be employed as an effective cleaning method to preserve painted carbonate stones. The treatment is also efficient as a protective coating to slow down the degradation phenomena.
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Guoqing Wu, Xiaoping Chen, Xuanyu Xie, Pu Zhang, Shenyu Ge, Wei Chen, Xian Zeng and Ruoye Wang
This technology can realize self-cleaning of deep-sea optical windows, reducing the cost of equipment maintenance and cleaning.
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Christopher M. Collins and Md. Safiuddin
A universal infrastructural issue is wetting of surfaces; millions of dollars are invested annually for rehabilitation and maintenance of infrastructures including roadways and buildings to fix the damages caused by moisture and frost. The biomimicry of ...
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Angélica María Castro-Hoyos, Manuel Alejandro Rojas Manzano and Aníbal Maury-Ramírez
Since the early seventies with the work of Akira Fujishima on photocatalytic and superhydrophilic properties of titanium dioxide (TiO2), also known as the Honda?Fujishima effect, photocatalysis has been investigated and progressively implemented in cemen...
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Qiang Li, Hongming Liang, Jinlong Song, Chenguang Guo and Jinbao Tang
High stability and transparent superhydrophobic coating on a glass substrate that can effectively repel the wetting dust as a self-cleaning property are beneficial traits for solving the decrease in optical lens clarity in an unmanned underground mining ...
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Michele Ferrari, Paolo Piccardo, Justine Vernet and Francesca Cirisano
One of the most important factors determining a significant reduction in optical devices? efficiency is the accumulation of soiling substances such as dust, which, especially in solar power plants, implies higher costs and materials ageing. The use of su...
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Ha Ram Byun, Seon Young Park, Ee Taek Hwang, Byoung In Sang, Jiho Min, Daekyung Sung, Won Il Choi, Sunghyun Kim and Jin Hyung Lee
Antimicrobial air filters are required to protect humans from the risk of secondary bioaerosol pollution as well as airborne particles. Three plant extracts (tea-tree oil, rosemary, and garlic) were selected to replace antimicrobial chemicals in air filt...
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Sriharan Natarajan, Senthil Thottipalayam Subramaniyam and Vignesh Kumaravel
Eco-friendly hydrophobic coatings were fabricated on tiles via the drop-casting process. Sugarcane bagasse waste ash (SBA) was used as a silica source and dimethyldiethoxysilane (DMDEOS) was used as a surface functionalizing agent. The elemental composit...
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Qian Zhao, Tiantian Tang and Fang Wang
The development of a self-cleaning and corrosion resistant superhydrophobic coating for aluminum alloy surfaces that is durable in aggressive conditions has attracted great interest in materials science. In the present study, a superphydrophobic film was...
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Jonathan Watté, Matthias Van Zele, Klaartje De Buysser and Isabel Van Driessche
In this paper, we present an overview as well as current advances in the low-temperature deposition of highly crystalline suspensions of titania nanoparticles on polymers for photocatalytic applications. The presence of preformed titania nanoparticles yi...
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