Many attempts have been made to fabricate various types of inorganic nanoparticle-filled polymers (filler/polymer nanocomposites) by a mechanical or chemical approach. However, these approaches require modification of the nanofiller surfaces and/or complicated polymerization reactions, making them unsuitable for industrial-scale production of the nanocomposites. The author and coworkers have pr...

in this paper, scattering of a plane and monochromatic electromagnetic wave from a nano-wire is simulated using surface integral equations. first, integral equationsgoverning unknown fields on the surface is obtained based on stratton-cho surface integral equations. then, the interaction of the wave with a non-plasmonic as well as a palsmonic nano-wire is considered. it is shown that in scatter...

We demonstrate a rice leaf-like hierarchically textured polymer fiber array for anisotropic non-wetting surfaces. To provide superhydrophobicity in addition to the anisotropic behavior, fiber surfaces are spray coated with organically modified silica nanoparticles. The resulting micro/nano hierarchically structured fiber surfaces demonstrate anisotropic non-wetting properties. We designed vario...

background and objectives: biomaterials are widely used in medical devices such as urinary catheters. one of the main problems associated with long term using of the urinary catheters is biofilm formation on their surfaces. many techniques have been presented to reduce the biofilm formation. one of the most revolutionary techniques allowing such surface fictionalization is plasma surface modific...

a new sorbent composed of 3-aminopropyltriethoxy-silane-coated magnetic nanoparticles, functionalized with rhodium(iii) porphyrin complex was synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, x-ray diffraction (xrd), transmission electron microscopy (tem), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ft-ir) and thermogravimetric analysis (tga). the effect of some co-existing anions present in aq...