Double optical monitoring is applied to determine the influence of main process parameters on the formation of sulfated zirconia and self-assembled mesoporous silica solgel films by dip coating. In addition, we analyze, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, the influence of withdrawal speed, temperature, and relative humidity on refractive-index and physical thickness variations (unc...

Copper (Cu) ions are of interest with respect to materials for bone regeneration because of their pro-angiogenic potential. One of the problems with synthetic bone scaffolds is the fast decrease in viability of cells with increasing distance from the surface of the scaffold material, which results from the inability of nutrients and oxygen to diffuse further than 150-200 μm from the surface wit...

Sol-gel method has been used to fabricate nanocomposite films on glass substrates composed halloysite clay mineral and nanocrystalline TiO2. The methodology for the synthesis involves a simple chemistry method utilized nonionic surfactant molecule as pore directing agent along with the acetic acid-based solgel route with the absence of water molecules. The thermal treatment of composite films a...

Magnetotransport properties of La0.5−xHoxCa0.5MnO3 (x = 0.05 and 0.1) polycrystalline samples were investigated in order to study the effect magnetic Ho3+ ions on stability charge ordering (CO) phase coexistence pristine La0.5Ca0.5MnO3. Our synthesized by using solgel method. Temperature dependence resistivity shows an insulating behavior with high values, confirming presence long-range CO. The...

Fabrication and characterization of U-shaped fiber optic pH probes utilizing evanescent field absorption spectroscopy and dye doped solgel immobilization technology are presented. The U-shaped probe is used to increase the evanescent field in the film and hence its interaction with the dyes present in the film. The influences of bending radius of the probe and the numerical aperture of the fibe...

The structural and optical properties of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) doped with different concentrations (0, 0.15, 0.5, 1, 2, 2.5, and 3 wt %) of ZnO nanoparticles were studied. ZnO nanoparticles were prepared by the solgel methode, and nanocomposite films were prepared using the solution casting methode. Nanocomposites films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier Transformer Infrar...

AbstractIn this study, the stress analysis of YBCO/CeO2/YSZ/CeO2/Ni architextured materials under cryogenic conditions was carried out for coated conductor applications. YBCO/CeO2/YSZ/CeO2 multilayer films were fabricated on Ni tape substrate using reel-to-reel sol-gel and Pulse Laser Deposition (PLD) systems. The microstructural evolution of high temperature superconducting YBCO film and buffe...

Measurements of ablation rate have traditionally been carried out only at normal incidence. However, in real-world applications ablation is often carried out at oblique angles, and it is useful to have prior knowledge of the ablation rate in this case. Detailed information about the angular dependence is also important for the development of ablation simulation tools, and can provide additional...