A new solvothermal approach is introduced to synthesize ultrathin Sb2Se3 nanowires with diameters ranging from 10 to 20 nm and with length up to 30 μm. The Sb2Se3 nanowire-based photodetectors are firstly fabricated on polyethylene terephthalate and printing paper substrates, which exhibit excellent response to visible light with fast response time (0.18 and 0.22 s), high flexibility, and durab...

In this paper, the f(alpha) conversion functions for random scission mechanisms have been proposed to allow for the construction of generalized master plots suitable for these kinds of mechanisms. The master plots have been validated by their application to simulated data and to the thermal degradation of poly(butylene terephthalate), polyethylene, and poly(tetrafluoroethylene).

This article describes the novel possibility of the polyester (polyethylene terephthalate) surface modification by plasma treatment. Moreover, this modified polyester could be component for the composite material (with hyaluronic acid) used in the wound healing. In this study, the experimental methods: FT-IR spectroscopy, the contact angle measurement, Xray photoelectron spectroscopy and scanni...

A low-cost, solution-processed, versatile, microfluidic approach is developed for patterning structures of highly conductive metals (e.g., copper, silver, and nickel) on chemically modified flexible polyethylene terephthalate thin films by in situ polymer-assisted electroless metal deposition. This method has significantly lowered the consumption of catalyst as well as the metal plating solution.

Slow multiply charged ions are efficiently guided through nano-capillaries with large aspect ratio in polyethylene terephthalate (PET), due to self-organized charging of the inner capillary walls which prevents close collisions with the surface. In order to gain more insight into this interesting phenomenon we have measured the 2-D scattering distribution of transmitted ions during the charge-u...

Porous pigments in which chemically responsive dyes have been immobilized in a matrix of organically modified siloxanes (ormosils) have been prepared and characterized by AFM, TEM, EDS, and optical analysis. In typical chemical sensing applications, an array of 36 different porous ormosil pigments are deposited on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film.

By employing a “modulated-temperature” heating programme composed of a series of heat-isotherm stages, it is possible to separate the change in dimensions of an oriented material during heating into two contributions: a thermally “reversing” component which is due to linear thermal expansion and a “nonreversing” part arising from relaxation to the disordered state on heating above Tg . Some pre...

Azoisobutylnitrile (AIBN) initiator was used in the treatment of most widely used domestic plastics in lieu of catalysts. The pyrolysis of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), polypropylene (PP), poly-ethylene terephthalate (PET) and polystyrene (PS) plastics with azoisobutylnitrile was carried out individually under nitrogen atmosphere. A series of single (plastic...

1Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology ACIB, 8010 Graz, Austria 8 2 Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, 9 Vienna, 3430 Tulln, Austria 10 3 Microbiology Group, Research Area Biotechnology and Microbiology, Institute of Chemical 11 Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, 1060 Vienna, Austria. 12 4 Institute of Biotechnology, Uni...