The novel anti-soiling coating was presented in the study “Field tests of a self-sintering, anti-soiling, self-cleaning, nanoporous metal oxide, transparent thin film coating for solar ...

Understanding these sophisticated metal-plating techniques from ancient ... Artists and craftsmen more than 2,000 years ago developed thin-film coating technology unrivaled even by today's ...

Metal film coating for mirrors is the process of coating a thin metal film on a substrate such as glass or plastic. This enhances its reflective properties and enables it to function as a mirror. The ...

A novel thin-film material capable of simultaneously enhancing the efficiency and durability of tandem solar cells has been ...

Chemical, plasma, electrochemical, and liquid-based metal-assisted etching are examples of ... whether thin coatings are oleophobic or not. Oleophobic coatings protect flexible thin films from ...

researchers from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed an ultrablack thin-film coating for aerospace-grade magnesium alloys.

"Compared to thick diamond films, diamond coatings exhibit distinct characteristics such as extremely small thickness (< 10 μm), significantly different physical properties of their metal ...

Spin coating is a widely used technique for depositing thin, uniform films onto flat substrates. It involves the application of a liquid material onto a rotating substrate, which spreads the material ...