Due to its electrical, optical, and mechanical properties, tin oxide coatings can be found in a wide range of applications. Fluorine doped tin oxides are transparent for visible light, highly reflective for infrared radiation, and may have a sheet resistance down to 3 Ω/square. These thin films are used in architectural windows for reflecting heat [1], in solar cells for carrying the cell’s cur...

Recent experiments on the kinetics of deposition and fibril elongation of the Alzheimer's beta-amyloid peptide on preexisting fibrils are analyzed. A mechanism is developed based on the dock-and-lock scheme recently proposed by Maggio and coworkers to organize their experimental observations of the kinetics of deposition of beta-peptide on preexisting amyloid fibrils and deposits. Our mechanism...

Oxygen reduction kinetics on bare and Pt-modified Ru(10/1̄/0) and Ru(0001) single crystal surfaces, and on carbon-supported Ru nanoparticles have been investigated. Spontaneous deposition of Pt was used to form approximately 1.5 and 0.5 monolayers on Ru single crystals and nanoparticles, respectively. The reaction kinetics of O2 on single crystal surfaces has a small structural dependence. It is...

This communication uncovers missing fundamental elements and an expanded model of gas phase electrodeposition; a relatively new in large parts unexplored process, which combines particle generation, transport zone deposition interacting setup. The process enables selected area charged nanoparticles that are dispersed transported by carrier at atmospheric pressure conditions. Two key parameters ...

Whether IgA nephropathy is attributable to mesangial IgA is unclear as there is no correlation between intensity of deposits and extent of glomerular injury and no clear mechanism explaining how these mesangial deposits induce hematuria and subsequent proteinuria. This hinders the development of a specific therapy. Thus, precise events during deposition still remain clinical challenge to clarif...

The evaporation and deposition process of Bis(acetylacetonato)platinurn(LI) fPt(acac)J was examined in a computerized microbalance system, which allows the measuring of the mass of evaporating precursor and depositing layer simultaneously. The investigations were carried out in an argon-atmosphere and an argonloxygen-atmosphere with pressure ranging from 250 Pa to 1000 Pa. The deposition kineti...

A numerical study has been performed modeling the gas-phase reactions occurring during the chemical vapor deposition ~CVD! of alumina from AlCl3 /CO2 /H2 mixtures. The purpose is to answer whether and to what extent trends in the decomposition of AlCl3 via gas-phase reactions can explain experimentally observed trends in CVD deposition of aluminum-containing films. The AlCl3 decomposition is pr...