Hydrophobic sand (HS) is ordinary beach sand coated with tiny particles of pure silica, which have been exposed to a …

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 …

air combustion. Silica (SiO2) is a major component of the mineral impurities in coal and the vaporization of silicon …–condensation mechanism. To investigate the vaporization behavior of silica in wet recycle oxy-coal combustion conditions, synthetic chars … silica. The improved model was developed based on a model built in conventional air combustion conditions and verified by the …

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. …