Recently, antireflective coatings (ARCs) with self-cleaning properties have attracted
significant attention for both their fundamental aspects and wide practical applications. In the …

Whereas considerable interest exists in self-assembly of well-ordered, porous “inverse opal”
structures for optical, electronic, and (bio) chemical applications, uncontrolled defect …

Colloidal particles of spherical shape are important building blocks for nanotechnological
applications. Materials with tailored physical properties can be directly synthesized from self …

Tackling membrane wetting is an ongoing challenge for large-scale applications of
membrane distillation (MD). Herein, composite Janus MD membranes comprising an …

Colloidal crystal films with a special FCC structure and tough mechanical strength were
simply fabricated using latex spheres with a hard PS core and an elastometric PMMA/PAA …

In this work, hollow carbon spheres (HCSs) with smooth single shells, deformed single
shells, double shells, and N-doped shells were prepared using silica spheres as templates …

In this work, an improved vertical deposition method, namely, a flow-controlled vertical
deposition (FCVD) method, was used to grow colloidal crystals with large spherical colloids …

Herein, we demonstrate mechanically stable large-area thin films with a purely real
refractive index (n) close to 1 in the optical range. At specific wavelengths, it can reach …

Multicompound inverse opal (IO) structures from titanium dioxide‑silicon dioxide (TiO 2-SiO
2, TSIO), titanium dioxide‑zirconium dioxide (TiO 2-ZrO 2, TZIO), and titanium dioxide (TIO) …

Authored by leading experts from around the world, the three-volume Handbook of
Nanostructured Thin Films and Coatings gives scientific researchers and product engineers …