Water resources are of extreme importance for both human society and the environment. However, human activity has increasingly resulted in the contamination of these resources with a wide range of materials that can ...

In the last decades, nanoscience had a spectacular evolution providing new, versatile engineered nanomaterials and nanotools with a plethora of applications in very diverse fields ranging from energy storage to medicine. ...

Water quality has become one of the most critical issue of concern worldwide. The main challenge of the scientific community is to develop innovative and sustainable water treatment technologies with high efficiencies and ...

Mechanical stress due to a misfit between a thin film and its substrate induces strains which can strongly modify the unstrained thin film properties. One good and interesting example to study strain effects is given by ...