With the rapid advancement of high-power laser technology, particularly in cutting-edge fields such as inertial confinement fusion (ICF), there is an increasing demand for optical coatings with high ...

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A multi-institute team led by Professors Ling Qiu, Baofu Ding and Hui-Ming Cheng has unveiled a two-dimensional titanium-dioxide sunscreen platform that erases the century-old trade-off between safety ...

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The novel Al-SiO 2 ceramic coatings with good densification ability and oxidation resistance due to the stabilizing effect of Al on the K⁺ ion migration and coating structure. Recently, a team of ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a scandium (Sc)-doped titanium dioxide (TiO 2) semiconductor in the rutile crystal phase. Schematic diagram of TiO 2 facet control and ...

CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Materials and Interfacial Science, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P.R. China School of Future Technology, ...

A European group of scientists has created a novel hydrophobic antireflective (AR) coating for the cover glass of PV modules. The double-layer coating uses a silica-titania (SiO2-TiO2) thin film as ...

Zeta potential is reliant on a particle surface’s chemical composition as well as the medium environment, such as pH and salt concentration. As a result, a particle system can display various zeta ...

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