Chitosan is a natural polymer that has been widely utilized for many purposes in the food, textile, agriculture, water treatment, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Based on its characteristics, including biodegradability, non-toxicity and antimicrobial properties, it has been employed effectively in wound healing applications. Importantly, however, it is necessary to improve chitosan’s ca...

The unique physical and chemical properties of nanomaterials have led to their increased use in many industrial applications, including as a paint additive. For example, titanium dioxide (TiO2) engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) have well-established anti-UV, self-cleaning, and air purification effects. Silver (Ag) ENPs are renowned for their anti-microbial capabilities and silicon dioxide (SiO2) ...

We demonstrate a novel atomic layer deposition (ALD) process to make high quality nanocrystalline titanium dioxide (TiO2) and zinc oxide (ZnO) with intermediate Al2O3 layers to limit the crystal size. The waveguide losses of TiO2/Al2O3 nanolaminates measured using the prism coupling method for both 633 nm and 1551 nm wavelengths are as low as 0.2 ± 0.1 dB/mm with the smallest crystal size. We a...

Poly(m-chloroaniline) (3clp), polydiphenylamine (dpa), copolymer of diphenylamine and mchloroaniline (3clpdpa), composite of copolymer with TiO2 (3clpdpat), and composite of copolymer with ZnO (3clpdpaz) have been chemically prepared by oxidative polymerization of polymer and copolymer with TiO2, ZnO. These were characterized by FTIR, UV–visible, Fluorescence spectra, Atomic force microscopy an...

A nitrogen-doped TiO2@SiO2 core/shell nano-photocatalyst (N-TiO2@SiO2) was used as an additive in photocatalytic paint and applied for the degradation of gaseous acetaldehyde under light-emitting diode (LED) visible light irradiation. N-TiO2 synthesised via solvothermal method then encapsulated by SiO2 sol-gel method. The incorporation N atom into TiO2 structure observed X-ray photoelectron spe...

Herein, a ternary nanocomposite with TiO2 nanoparticles anchored on reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-encapsulated Fe3O4 spheres (Fe3O4@rGO@TiO2) is presented as a high efficient heterogeneous catalyst for photo-Fenton degradation of recalcitrant pollutants under neutral pH. Fe3O4@rGO@TiO2 was synthesized by depositing TiO2 nanoparticles on the surface of the Fe3O4 spheres wrapped by graphene oxide ...

The performance of graphene field-effect transistors is limited by the drastically reduced carrier mobility of graphene on silicon dioxide (SiO2) substrates. Here we demonstrate an ultrasensitive ultraviolet (UV) phototransistor featuring an organic self-assembled monolayer (SAM) sandwiched between an inorganic ZnO quantum dots decorated graphene channel and a conventional SiO2/Si substrate. Re...