Highly ordered mesoporous ZrO2 thin films were prepared by evaporation induced self-assembly. Complexing agents and low pH were simultaneously employed in order to control the hydrolysis-condensation kinetics, permitting ...

The fluid-front dynamics resulting from the coexisting infiltration and evaporation phenomena in nanofluidic systems has been investigated. More precisely, water infiltration in both titania and silica mesoporous films was ...

A scalable, simple, robust and reproducible method is presented for the preparation of chemically homogeneous and ordered nanocrystalline and mesoporous Zr1-xCexO2 thin films. The method utilizes widely available commercial ...

The ability to control nanoflows is critical to design and fabricate ever more versatile nanosystems. Scientists are currently interested in finding ways to handle fluid dynamics inside nanoporous networks, not only to ...

Background: Silver nanosystems have attracted considerable attention for numerous applications in optoelectronics. The localized surface plasmon of silver nanoparticles embedded into mesoporous titania gives rise to an ...

A robust method for the preparation of optical-quality mesoporous alumina thin films is presented, using evaporation induced self assembly of triblock copolymer surfactants. The use of lowly reactive aluminium chloride as ...

There is great interest in developing surfaces with enhanced properties for the sliding of liquid droplets. Here we show that both water and oil droplets placed on mesoporous thin film surfaces slide at relatively small ...

Mesoporous films have been shown to exhibit striking behaviors in capillary-driven infiltration experiments. The process has been shown to follow classical Lucas–Washburn dynamics, but the effective pore radius has been ...

A new sol-gel synthesis procedure of stable calcium copper titanate (CaCu3Ti4O12-CCTO) precursor sols for the fabrication of porous films was developed The composition of the sot was selected in order to avoid the precipitation ...