Superhydrophobic cotton fabrics are prepared using silica and titania hybrid sol and hexadecyltrimethoxysilane. The … fabrics treated with silica and titania hybrid sol and modified with hexadecyltrimethoxysilane show excellent superhydrophobic …

Nucleation, growth, and thermal stability of Pd particles vapor-deposited on an ultra-thin crystalline silica film … absorption spectroscopy, and temperature-programmed desorption of CO. No preferential nucleation of Pd on the silica film is … interdiffusion at elevated temperatures, while the silica film basically preserves its structure. …

chemical stability of the material. In this study, an electrochromic film made of silica-polyaniline core-shell composite … aqueous colloidal solution of silica. The synthesized particles were then dispersed into ethanol and the solution was …