The recent development in oil and gas industry increases the production and consumption of oil. The enormous amount of oily wastewater produced is urged to be treated to prevent humanity and environment from being threatened. Membrane technology is an appealing alternative for oily wastewater treatment due to its design simplicity, energy efficiency and environmentally benign approach. In this ...

In recent years, the demand for thin film coatings on large area substrates has been rapidly increasing. Coating is some times required to make an object harder, or to provide the surface with particular electrical and optical properties. Hence, research on thin film science has received much attention due to its tremendous applications in modern technology. The importance of coatings and the s...

This study investigates the preparation of PbSe-ZnSe composite thin films by simultaneous hot-wall deposition (HWD) from multiple resources. The XRD result reveals that the solubility limit of Pb in ZnSe is quite narrow, less than 1 mol%, with obvious phase-separation in the composite thin films. A nanoscale elemental mapping of the film containing 5 mol% PbSe indicates that isolated PbSe nanoc...

This paper reports on a Ga2O3–Cu2O composite thin film that allows the destruction of both Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria via a dual mechanism involving Ga ions that disrupt Femetabolism pathways in bacteria as well as through the reactive oxygen species generated by possible Fenton type reactions that are mediated by Cu ions. This dual mechanism allowed the highly transparent composi...

This paper presents the design and development of a passive wireless sensor for the detection of bio-hazard materials and vapors using chemiresistive thin films. Composite polymer thin film with functionalized carbon nanotubes (f-CNT) and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) is employed as a sensing material. It is investigated that resistance change is determined with the concentration of dichloromet...

In this work, nanostructured TiO2 and Cr-doped TiO2 thin films were deposited on glass substrate through sonochemical-chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. The resulting thin films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), UV-visible absorption spectroscopy, and photoluminescence spectroscopy techniques. The TiO2 thin film has nanocubic morphology and ...

Composite thin films based on carbon nanotubes have received immense attention which is attributed to their distinct mechanical, thermal, optical and structure properties. Depending on the film compositions and preparation methods, carbon nanotube based thin films can be tuned for various applications in many fields. In this comprehensive review paper, we overview the recent methods for the fab...

thin film phthalocyanines(pc), incloding zinc, iron, and magnesium phthalocyani-nes, were prepared by vacuum deposition method. chronocoulometry was used to study the charge transfer reaction mechanism of ionic species through the thin films. the results obtained in chronocoulometric studies shows that the thin film phthalocyanines could operate via two mechanisms.the first mechanism metal pc t...

Graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets and polyoxometalate such as H(3)PW(12)O(40) (PTA) are prepared into a multilayer film via a layer-by-layer inkjet printing method. The GO/PTA composite thin film shows linear, uniform and regular layer-by-layer growth. Under UV-irradiation, a photoreduction reaction takes place in the film which converts GO to reduced GO (rGO) due to the photoreduction activity of...