Heat Stability and Icing Delay on Superhydrophobic Coatings in Facile One Step by Jingyu Shang, Yongfeng Jiang, Wenhua Wang

“…In this work, an efficient, eco-friendly, and cost-effective sol-gel method is developed for preparing superhydrophobic surfaces using an all-in-one suspension composed of methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMS), nano silicon dioxide (SiO₂) particles, and micron zinc oxide (ZnO) particles. …”
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Self-Organization at Aqueous Colloid-Membrane Interfaces and an Optical Method to Measure the Kinetics of Exclusion Zone Formation by Harry Jabs, Beverly Rubik

“…Various aqueous colloids including suspensions of charged microspheres, silicon dioxide particles, and raw whole milk were studied with Nafion® hydrophilic membranes. …”
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Application of Scattering Parameters to DPL Time-Lag Parameter Estimation at Nanoscale in Modern Integration Circuit Structures by Mariusz Zubert, Zbigniew Kulesza, Mariusz Jankowski, Andrzej Napieralski

“…The electric and thermal domain of this structure was analysed. Finally, the silicon dioxide (SiO₂) temperature time-lag estimation procedure is presented based on the scattering parameters measured by a vector network analyser for the considered MEMS structure together with the 2-omega method. …”
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Evaluating the Rheological and Tribological Behaviors of Coconut Oil Modified with Nanoparticles as Lubricant Additives by Vicente Cortes, Javier A. Ortega

“…Two different nanoparticle additives were investigated: Silicon dioxide (SiO₂) and copper oxide (CuO). …”
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Surface acoustic wave actuated plasmonic signal amplification in a plasmonic waveguide by Rohit Gupta, Kuntal Barman, Liang-Yun Lee, Anuj Chauhan, Jian-Jang Huang

“…This work proposes a new method to amplify the propagating plasmons through an external on-chip surface acoustic signal. The gold–silicon dioxide (Au-SiO2) interface, over Lithium Niobate (LN) substrate, is used to excite propagating surface plasmons. …”
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An Innovative Polarisation-Insensitive Perfect Metamaterial Absorber with an Octagonal-Shaped Resonator for Energy Harvesting at Visible Spectra by Mohammad Jakir Hossain, Md. Habibur Rahman, Mohammad Rashed Iqbal Faruque

“…The proposed PMA consists of three layers: nickel, silicon dioxide, and nickel. Based on the simulations, polarisation-insensitive absorption transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) modes were achieved due to symmetry. …”
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Novel Antireflection Coatings Obtained by Low-Temperature Annealing in the Presence of Tetrabutylammonium Bromide and Gold Nanoparticles by Alena A. Lokteva, Anastasiia A. Kotelnikova, Roman S. Kovylin, Alexey N. Konev, Alexandr V. Piskunov

“…In this work, nanoporous antireflective coatings on silicate glass were obtained from silicon dioxide sol compositions by the sol-gel method in the presence of quaternary ammonium salt (tetrabutylammonium bromide) at different annealing temperatures (200–250 °C). …”
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Formulation and Biopharmaceutical Evaluation of Capsules Containing Freeze-Dried Cranberry Fruit Powder by Rima Šedbarė, Valdimaras Janulis, Kristina Ramanauskiene

“…Capsule formulations N1–N9 had a disintegration time of less than 10 min, and capsule formulation N10 containing 0.200 g of freeze-dried cranberry powder, 0.100 g of Prosolv (combination of microcrystalline cellulose and colloidal silicon dioxide), and 0.100 g of chitosan had a capsule disintegration time of over 30 min. …”
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A temperature sensor based on Si/PS/SiO2 photonic crystals by Arafa H. Aly, B. A. Mohamed, M. Al-Dossari, D. Mohamed

“…The proposed structure is realized by putting a defective layer of material silicon Dioxide (SiO2) in the middle of a structure consisting of alternating layers of silicon (Si) and porous silica (PS). …”
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The Study of the Wrinkles of Hexagonal Boron-Nitride Flake after the Annealing by Guocheng Zhang, Yufang Chang, Bin Yan

“…Here, thermal-induced wrinkles of thin h-BN flakes deposited on silicon dioxide substrate were investigated through a combination of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Raman spectroscopy. …”
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Synthesis of WS₂ by Chemical Vapor Deposition: Role of the Alumina Crucible by Neileth Stand, Cesar D. Mendoza, Fernando L. Freire

“…The role of the alumina crucible for the tungsten disulfide (WS₂) growth on silicon dioxide substrates (SiO₂/Si) under atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition (APCVD) was investigated. …”
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Tunable Dual Broadband Terahertz Metamaterial Absorber Based on Vanadium Dioxide by Xiao-Fei Jiao, Zi-Heng Zhang, Tong Li, Yun Xu, Guo-Feng Song

“…The metamaterial is composed of patterned VO₂ on the top layer, gold on the bottom layer and silicon dioxide (SiO₂) as the middle dielectric layer. …”
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Comparison of the Properties of Calcium Silicates Derived from Different Raw Materials by Mishagin Kirill, Gotlib Elena, Yamaleeva Ekaterina, Sokolova Alla, Khatsrinov Aleksey

“…The obtained results indicate greater efficiency of amorphous silicon dioxide for the synthesis in the solid phase of calcium silicates. …”
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Microfluidic Thermal Flowmeters for Drug Injection Monitoring by Il Doh, Daniel Sim, Steve S. Kim

“…Here, we propose a miniaturized thermal flowmeter consisting of a silicon substrate, a platinum heater layer on a silicon dioxide thin-membrane, and a polymer microchannel to provide accurate flow-rate measurement. …”
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Modelling of asymmetric channel plasmonic polariton waveguides by Saja Imad, Riyadh Mansoor, Rasha Ali, Fras Hussain

“…This design consists of two silicon trenches etched into a silicon dioxide substrate layer; with a gold layer sandwiched in between. …”
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Annular one-dimensional photonic crystals for salinity sensing by Hassan Sayed, Mohamed A. Swillam, Arafa H. Aly

“…Furthermore, we construct a 1D annular PCs structure in the form $${(AB)}^{N}$$ ( A B ) N , where A is silicon ( $$Si$$ Si ) and B is silicon dioxide ( $${SiO}_{2}$$ SiO 2 ) of 40 nm and 70 nm, respectively, with a number of periods equal to 9. …”
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White light emission from Eu3+, Tb3+ ions and ZnO nanocrystals embedded in SiO2 film by Khor, Kai Sherng

“…In that study, a new method was researched into to produce white light emission from Zinc Oxide nanocrystals (ZnO-nc), Europium (Eu3+) RE ions, and Terbium (Tb3+) RE ions in a Silicon dioxide (SiO2) substrate. An excitation source of a single wavelength is required to achieve this instead of 3 different wavelengths. …”
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Emission from Eu3+, Tb3+ ions and ZnO nanocrystals embedded in SiO2 film to obtain white light emission by Soh, Daphne Rui Xuan

“…In the present study, a new method of emission from Europium (Eu3+) rare-earth (RE) ions and Terbium (Tb3+) RE ions co-doped with Zinc Oxide Nanocrystals (ZnO-nc) embedded in a Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) film was developed to produce white light emission. …”
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Investigating high-k on thin film by Kee, Pei Ling.

“…The research seeks to identify a gate dielectric material in replacement for silicon dioxide (SiO2) and to demonstrate reduced leakage current while driving sufficient current across the transistor channel. …”
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Engineered substrate for electronic and photonics application by Eow, Desmond Fu Shen

“…This 4.1% of lattice mismatch results a large threading dislocation densities (>108cm-2) which in turns causes the poor performance of the integration.The prime aim of this final year research project is to evaluate the quality of AlGaInP multi-quantum wells (MQWs) red LED (peak wavelength ~ 668 nm) structure epitaxial growth on silicon substrate through different buffer layers, such as germanium on silicon (Ge/Si), germanium on silicon dioxide (GOI) and arsenic-doped germanium on silicon (Asdoped Ge/Si). …”
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