Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of alkylsiloxanes were patterned by microcontact printing @CP) on a number of substrates: A1/A1&, SUSi02, TiN/Ti02, glasses, indium tin oxide (ITO), and plasma-modified polyimide. The patterned SAMs on these surfaces define and direct the selective chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of copper using (hexafluoroacetylacetonato)(vinyltrimethylsilane)copper(I) (CuI(hfa...

A novel process of fabricating various oxide nanostructures on glass substrates is described. Transparent porous alumina films ( 6–150 nm) were first formed in acid solutions by anodization of aluminum layers sputter-deposited on a glass plate coated with a tin-doped indium oxide film. The porous alumina structures after pore-widened were then used as a host or a template in a sol–gel process t...

Tin oxide films were implanted with N at various energies between 5 to 40 keV for different ion doses between 10 to 10 cm. The microstructure, optical and electrical properties of the films were investigated. From Transmission Electron Microscopy the implanted films were shown to be amorphous. The implanted thickness for the 10 keV and 40 keV were found to be 30 nm and 110 nm, respectively. The...

A low level tin doped indium oxide, ITO, (ca. 10 w % SnO2) thin films were prepared on glass substrate by electron beam technique. Deposited films with deposition rate of 0.1–0.25 nm s were annealed at different temperatures from 250 to 550 °C in air. The thin films were characterized using low and high angle X-ray diffraction and UV-visible spectroscopy. The lattice constant and the grain size...

Tin-doped indium hydroxide (InSnOH) nanowires (NWs) and nanotubes (NTs) were grown from acidic aqueous solutions of inorganic precursors in a simple one-step electrochemically assisted deposition (EAD) process inside Au-plugged anodic aluminium oxide and polycarbonate membranes. When the membranes were used without any pre-treatment, InSnOH crystals nucleated on the both the Au-cathode and pore...

Large-scale single crystalline tin nanowire arrays with preferred lattice orientation along the [100] direction were fabricated in porous anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) membranes by the electrodeposition method using copper nanorod as a second electrode.

Quasi oxygen-deficient indium tin oxide nanoparticles (ITO NPs) were prepared by photoinduced chlorine doping, and exhibited much enhanced electrocatalytic activity for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) in alkaline media, as compared with pristine ITO.

We present a facile micropatterning method that is based on the electrochemically induced deposition of carboxylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes on an indium tin oxide electrode without using surfactants or polymers.

1-O-Acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine and 1-O-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoric acid have been prepared selectively and with high yields from the corresponding diols, glycerophosphoryl choline and glycerol-3-phosphate. Starting from the diols, the activated tin ketals were prepared in 2-propanol by reaction with dialkyltin oxide. The intermediates were acylated in the same solvent with long-chain fat...