Thin Films

Producing low-cost metal-oxide thin films with high electronic quality for solar water splitting is not an easy task. Especially since quality improvements of the upper metal oxide thin films need thermal processing at high temperatures, which would melt the underlying glass substrate. Now, a team a more

Shrimp shells, plant extracts and recycled plastic have helped KAUST researchers to build a sustainable thin-film composite membrane that could replace conventional membranes whose environmental toll is greater. Thin-film composite membranes are widely used in applications such as wastewater treatme more

Magnets from organic materials can enable new applications and offer a sustainable alternative to metal magnets containing rare earths. With a worldwide unique experimental setup at DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, scientists from Tübingen, Hamburg, Berlin, Nebraska und Italy have demonstrated magneti more

Materials, Vol. 11, Pages 1120: A Novel Method of Synthesizing Graphene for Electronic Device Applications Materials doi: 10.3390/ma11071120 Authors: Nierlly Galvão Getúlio Vasconcelos Rodrigo Pessoa João Machado Marciel Guerino Mariana Fraga Bruno Rodrigues Julien Camus Abd more

Alexandra Altier, Martín Jiménez-Piedrahita, Ramiro Uribe, Carlos Rey-Castro, Joan Cecília, Josep Galceran, Jaume Puy Environmental context. The availability of trace metals to aquatic organisms is influenced by the natural ligands present in water. We investigate the influence of the composition more

This paper demonstrates the use of phosphinecarboxamide (PCA) as a facile phosphorus precursor, which can be used alongside zinc acetate for the chemical vapour deposition (CVD) of adherent and crystalline zinc phosphide films. Thin films of Zn3P2 have a number of potential applications and phosphin more