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Laura Bergamonti, Marianna Potenza, Federica Scigliuzzo, Sandro Meli, Antonella Casoli, Pier Paolo Lottici and Claudia Graiff
TiO2/OrMoSil-based coatings can be employed as an effective cleaning method to preserve painted carbonate stones. The treatment is also efficient as a protective coating to slow down the degradation phenomena.
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Zhuoqi Duan, Zaixin Xie, Bao Zhou, Xiaobo Yang, Heng-Yong Nie and Yongmao Hu
Heritage buildings and monuments are mostly made from natural stone, which undergoes irreversible decay under outdoor conditions. The main reason for the contamination, degradation, and cracking of natural stones is water and oil permeation. Hence, modif...
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Serdal Ünal, Mehmet Canbaz
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Christopher M. Collins and Md. Safiuddin
A universal infrastructural issue is wetting of surfaces; millions of dollars are invested annually for rehabilitation and maintenance of infrastructures including roadways and buildings to fix the damages caused by moisture and frost. The biomimicry of ...
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Guoqing Wu, Xiaoping Chen, Xuanyu Xie, Pu Zhang, Shenyu Ge, Wei Chen, Xian Zeng and Ruoye Wang
This technology can realize self-cleaning of deep-sea optical windows, reducing the cost of equipment maintenance and cleaning.
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Qiang Li, Hongming Liang, Jinlong Song, Chenguang Guo and Jinbao Tang
High stability and transparent superhydrophobic coating on a glass substrate that can effectively repel the wetting dust as a self-cleaning property are beneficial traits for solving the decrease in optical lens clarity in an unmanned underground mining ...
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Angélica María Castro-Hoyos, Manuel Alejandro Rojas Manzano and Aníbal Maury-Ramírez
Since the early seventies with the work of Akira Fujishima on photocatalytic and superhydrophilic properties of titanium dioxide (TiO2), also known as the Honda?Fujishima effect, photocatalysis has been investigated and progressively implemented in cemen...
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Michele Ferrari, Paolo Piccardo, Justine Vernet and Francesca Cirisano
One of the most important factors determining a significant reduction in optical devices? efficiency is the accumulation of soiling substances such as dust, which, especially in solar power plants, implies higher costs and materials ageing. The use of su...
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Muhammad Ahsan Iqbal, Humaira Asghar and Michele Fedel
A protective CoAl-layered double hydroxide (LDH) thin film was developed directly on the aluminum substrate. Further, the low-surface-energy molecules (1H, 1H, 2H, 2H perfluorododecyl trichlorosilane) were incorporated inside the LDH network through an a...
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Ha Ram Byun, Seon Young Park, Ee Taek Hwang, Byoung In Sang, Jiho Min, Daekyung Sung, Won Il Choi, Sunghyun Kim and Jin Hyung Lee
Antimicrobial air filters are required to protect humans from the risk of secondary bioaerosol pollution as well as airborne particles. Three plant extracts (tea-tree oil, rosemary, and garlic) were selected to replace antimicrobial chemicals in air filt...
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Iran Rocha Segundo, Elisabete Freitas, Salmon Landi, Jr., Manuel F. M. Costa and Joaquim O. Carneiro
Nowadays, there is increasing concern in transportation engineering about the use of techniques less harmful to the environment and also about road safety. Heterogeneous photocatalysis based on the application of semiconductor materials onto asphalt mixt...
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Sriharan Natarajan, Senthil Thottipalayam Subramaniyam and Vignesh Kumaravel
Eco-friendly hydrophobic coatings were fabricated on tiles via the drop-casting process. Sugarcane bagasse waste ash (SBA) was used as a silica source and dimethyldiethoxysilane (DMDEOS) was used as a surface functionalizing agent. The elemental composit...
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Qian Zhao, Tiantian Tang and Fang Wang
The development of a self-cleaning and corrosion resistant superhydrophobic coating for aluminum alloy surfaces that is durable in aggressive conditions has attracted great interest in materials science. In the present study, a superphydrophobic film was...
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Mudassar Abbas, Hina Iftikhar, Mumtaz Hasan Malik and Ahsan Nazir
Herein, the hydrophobic and self-cleaning properties of three different fabric surfaces have been evaluated after applying titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanofinishes. The nanoparticles were prepared by sol-gel techniques and were characterized by using X-ray d...
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Martina Pini, Erika Iveth Cedillo González, Paolo Neri, Cristina Siligardi and Anna Maria Ferrari
In recent years, superhydrophilic and photocatalytic self-cleaning nanocoatings have been widely used in the easy-to-clean surfaces field. In the building sector, self-cleaning glass was one of the first nanocoating applications. These products are based...
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Ishaq Ahmad and Chi-wai Kan
We report here the photo-catalytic properties of dye-sensitized TiO2-coated cotton fabrics. In this study, visible-light-driven, self-cleaning cotton fabrics were developed by coating the cotton fabrics with dye-sensitized TiO2. TiO2 nano-sol was prepare...
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Martina Pini, Erika Iveth Cedillo González, Paolo Neri, Cristina Siligardi and Anna Maria Ferrari
In recent years, superhydrophilic and photocatalytic self-cleaning nanocoatings have been widely used in the easy-to-clean surfaces field. In the building sector, self-cleaning glass was one of the first nanocoating applications. These products are based...
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Sudipto Pal, Vincenzo Contaldi, Antonio Licciulli and Fabio Marzo
A mineral silicate paint has been developed for architectural heritage. To enhance durability, any type of organic additive has been avoided. Potassium silicate was the binder agent intended to give strong adherence and durability to stone and concretes....
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Giovanni Battista Goffredo and Placido Munafò
We proposed the application of titanium dioxide (TiO2) for the preservation of historical (architectural, monumental, archaeological) stone surfaces. Solar light can activate the photocatalytic effect of TiO2 nanoparticles: heterogeneous photocatalysis i...
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James C. Moore, Robert Louder and Cody V. Thompson
The photocatalytic activity and stability of thin, polycrystalline ZnO films was studied. The oxidative degradation of organic compounds at the ZnO surface results from the ultraviolet (UV) photo-induced creation of highly oxidizing holes and reducing el...
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