Nanostructured paper

Highly transparent and writable wood all - cellulose hybrid nanostructured paper †

Paper, as an inexpensive substrate for flexible electronics and energy devices, has garnered great attention because of its abundance, biodegradability, renewability and sustainability. However, the intrinsic opacity and higher roughness of regular paper greatly restricts further applications. One promising method is to use cellulose nanofibers (CNs) to fabricate nanopaper with a high optical t...

Novel nanostructured paper with ultrahigh transparency and ultrahigh haze for solar cells.

Solar cell substrates require high optical transparency but also prefer high optical haze to increase the light scattering and consequently the absorption in the active materials. Unfortunately, there is a trade-off between these optical properties, which is exemplified by common transparent paper substrates exhibiting a transparency of about 90% yet a low optical haze (<20%). In this work, we ...

Facile Preparation of Nanostructured, Superhydrophobic Filter Paper for Efficient Water/Oil Separation

In this paper, we present a facile and cost-effective method to obtain superhydrophobic filter paper and demonstrate its application for efficient water/oil separation. By coupling structurally distinct organosilane precursors (e.g., octadecyltrichlorosilane and methyltrichlorosilane) to paper fibers under controlled reaction conditions, we have formulated a simple, inexpensive, and efficient p...

Nanostructured Cathodes

Nanostructured SnO

This paper describes the morphology, stoichiometry, microstructure and gas sensing properties of nano clustered SnOx thin films prepared by Sn evaporation followed by the Rheotaxial Growth and Thermal Oxidation (RGTO) process. Electron microscopy was used to investigate, in detail, the evolution of the films as the oxidation temperature was increased. The results showed that the contact angle, ...