Since the past two decades, immobilization of titanium dioxide (TiO 2), a popular
photocatalyst, on different substrates has been drawing a lot of attention because it …

Most industrially applied polymer resins and composites have low surface free energy and
lack polar functional groups on their surface, resulting in inherently poor adhesion …

Adhesive bonding is a key joining technology in many industrial sectors including the
automotive and aerospace industries, biomedical applications, and microelectronics …

Polymer nanocomposites incorporating metal or metal oxide nanoparticles have been
developed to improve their characteristics (flexibility, gas barrier properties, antimicrobial or …

This study presents radio frequency plasma (RF-plasma), microwave plasma (MW-plasma),
and vacuum-UV light irradiation as pretreatment of synthetic textile surfaces allowing the …

The preparation, activity and characterization of TiO2 clusters on several of textiles are
presented having a self-cleaning effect under daylight irradiation. The textile pretreatment …

Problems of experimental determination and theoretical verification of equilibrium contact
angles are discussed basing on the literature data. A relationship between the advancing …

This article reviews the various theoretical approaches that have been developed for
determination of the surface tension of solids, and the applications to food industrial …

The astonishing outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, known as COVID-19, has attracted
numerous research interests, particularly regarding fabricating antimicrobial surface …

To apply whey protein isolate (WPI) as a food packaging material industrially, a three-step
study was performed. First, the WPI coating solution was screened for plasticizer type …