Erratum: Corrigendum: Photo Initiated Chemical Vapour Deposition To Increase Polymer Hydrophobicity

Corrigendum: Photo Initiated Chemical Vapour Deposition To Increase Polymer Hydrophobicity

Photo Initiated Chemical Vapour Deposition To Increase Polymer Hydrophobicity

Apple growers face new challenges to produce organic apples and now many cover orchards with high-density polyethylene (HDPE) nets to exclude insects, rather than spraying insecticides. However, rainwater- associated wetness favours the development of apple scabs, Venturia inaequalis, whose lesions accumulate on the leaves and fruit causing unsightly spots. Treating the nets with a superhydroph...

Photo-thermal chemical vapour deposition growth of graphene

The growth of graphene on Ni using a photo-thermal chemical vapour deposition (PT-CVD) technique is reported. The non-thermal equilibrium nature of the PT-CVD process resulted in a much shorter duration of the overall growth time for graphene in both the heating up and cooling down stages, thus allowing for the reduction. Despite the reduced time for synthesis compared to standard thermal chemi...

Polymer Nanocoatings by Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (iCVD)

Initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) is a novel process capable of producing a range of polymeric and multifunctional nanocoatings. The process utilizes hot filaments to drive gas phase chemistry which enables the deposition of true linear polymers rather than the highly crosslinked organic networks often associated with plasma enhanced CVD. Importantly, the object to be coated remains at...

Chemical Vapour Deposition for Optical Fibre Technology

At the beginning of the seventies, a break-through took place in the telecommunication research. The introduction of Chemical Vapour Deposition technology in the manufacture of optical fibres allowed both technical quality and economical convenience to realise optical networks, thus beginning the telecommunication revolution. Since that moment, a great development of the CVD techniques has been...