Recent developments in multifunctional coatings for solar panel applications: A review

MS Mozumder, AHI Mourad, H Pervez… - Solar Energy Materials …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Conventional resources of energy production by burning fossil fuels are detrimental to the
earth's atmosphere leading to serious problems such as global warming and acid rain. As a …

Durable superhydrophobic PVDF/FEVE/GO@ TiO2 composite coating with excellent anti-scaling and UV resistance properties

Z Liu, C Zhang, X Zhang, C Wang, F Liu, R Yuan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Biomimetic superhydrophobic surfaces with excellent self-cleaning, antifouling and
anticorrosion properties often suffer from mechanical damage and stop functioning when …

Fabrication of transparent wear-resistant superhydrophobic SiO2 film via phase separation and chemical vapor deposition methods

J Zheng, J Yang, W Cao, Y Huang, Z Zhou… - Ceramics …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Glass with superhydrophobic, transparent, and wear-resistant properties are quite desirable
for the applications in high building glass curtain, wind shield glass, and solar cell cover …

Highly transparent and robust superhydrophobic coatings fabricated via a facile sol-gel process

C Ke, C Zhang, X Wu, Y Jiang - Thin Solid Films, 2021‏ - Elsevier
A simple sol-gel method was utilized to fabricate SiO 2-based coatings on glass substrates.
After decorating the coatings with fluorosilane, the coatings became superhydrophobic, with …

Layer-by-layer assembly induced strong, hydrophobic and anti-bacterial TEMPO oxidized cellulose nanofibrils films for highly efficient UV-shielding and oil-water …

Y Ren, Z Ling, C Huang, C Lai, Q Yong - International Journal of Biological …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Anti-ultraviolet material with cost-effectiveness, environmental friendliness, and multifunction
is urgently needed to address the serious problem of ultraviolet radiation. However …

A robust superhydrophobic surface and origins of its self-cleaning properties

H Li, S Yu - Applied Surface Science, 2017‏ - Elsevier
A hierarchical surface was fabricated by electrodeposition of copper coating and chemical
oxidation to form copper oxide, and the surface energy was lowered by chemical …

Transparent superhydrophobic hollow films (TSHFs) with superior thermal stability and moisture resistance

Z Cai, J Lin, X Hong - RSC advances, 2018‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Highly transparent superhydrophobic hollow films (contact angle, 165.7° and sliding angle,
2.1°) have been prepared by using candle soot as a template, followed by …

Transparent, superhydrophobic surface with varied surface tension responsiveness in wettability based on tunable porous silica structure for gauging liquid surface …

Y Wang, Y Zhu, C Zhang, J Li… - ACS applied materials & …, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
Any solid surface can spontaneously exhibit variational wettability toward liquids with varied
surface tension (γ). However, this correspondence has seldom been proposed or used on …

Fabrication of transparent superhydrophobic glass with fibered-silica network

F Zhang, Z Shi, Y Jiang, C Xu, Z Wu, Y Wang… - Applied surface …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, silica was deposited on the soot film pre-coated glass via chemical vapor
deposition. Through calcination at 500° C with the assistance of O 2 airflow, the soot film …

Oil industry first interwell trial of reservoir nanoagent tracers

D Kosynkin, M Alaskar - SPE Annual Technical Conference and …, 2016‏ - onepetro.org
This manuscript reports the industry's first proven reservoir nanoagents' design and
describes a successful multi-well field trial using these inexpensive and environmentally …