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    Smart Composite Coatings and Membranes

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    Smart Composite Coatings and Membranes: Transport, Structural, Environmental and Energy Applications provides the latest information on the increase in demand for new smart materials for a wide array of different technological applications. The book comprehensively reviews the latest developments in smart composite materials used as membranes, barriers, and coatings, with a special focus on corrosion protection, transportation, structure, and the wide range of applications. Part one examines the properties, processing, and manufacture of smart composite materials, along with techniques for modeling the behavior of these materials, while other sections review the use of smart composite coatings in aerospace, marine, and metal structural applications, examine the protective properties and applications of smart composite coatings, and introduce specific low environmental impact and energy efficient applications, such as energy generation and storage, water management, and stone conservation. Explores the use of smart composite materials for coatings, barriers and membranes. Comprehensively reviews the latest developments in smart composite materials, with a special focus on corrosion protection, transportation, structure, and the wide range of applications. Examines the properties, processing, manufacture and behavior modeling of smart composite materials. Focuses on applications that have an impact on more effective energy savings and efficiency, green-house emissions, and environmental protection

    Structural, optical and magnetic properties of Fe3O4 sputtered TeO2–PbO–B2O3 and PbO–Bi2O3–B2O3 glasses for sensing applications

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    The Fe3O4 nanoparticles, incorporated into two diamagnetic glasses (TeO2–PbO–B2O3 and PbO–Bi2O3–B2O3) by DC magnetron sputtering, were annealed at 300 °C for 22 h in order to investigate the influence to the thermal stability and magneto-optical properties of glasses. The structure, morphology and magnetic properties of two sputtered glasseswere compared and characterized using X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), andUV–VIS spectrameasurements. The Verdet constant of glasseswasmeasured by a home-made optical bench. Sputtered samples (Fe3O4 target)were comparedwith the one obtained by melt-quenching Fe3O4 nanoparticles. The influence of sputtered Fe3O4 layer thickness on thermal and magneto-optical performance was investigated. The results prove that the magnetic property of both glasses, and especially the TeO2–PbO–B2O3 one, is enhanced after the incorporation of 1–5 μm-thick-Fe3O4 layer deposited by sputtering. Compared with the uncoated glasses, no significant degradation in FT-IR transmittance, UV–VIS absorption and thermal stability were discovered. The TeO2–PbO–B2O3–Fe3O4 system exhibits the best thermal and magneto-optical performances for magneto optical applications, within the two glass families

    Euro Nano Forum 2011: NANOSTRUCTURED ANTISEPTICAL COATINGS (NASLA): ANTIBACTERIAL PROPERTIES OF SILICA COATINGS CONTAINING SILVER NANOCLUSTER

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    NASLA is a two-year project (starting project date: October 2010) involving four SMEs from three different EU countries (Italy, Spain and Greece) and three R&D partners from two EU countries (Italy and Sweden). NASLA aims to provide anti-septic functionality for several products manufactured by SMEs participants operating in the field of biomedical implants, agro/food industry equipments and personnel protective systems. A new and reliable antiseptic coating will be designed, prepared and tested leading to the delivery of a new generation of goods with enhanced functionalities, currently not available on the marke
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