Adrianus I. Aria

TL;DR: In this article, a review of recent developments in piezoelectric nanostructured materials, polymers, polymer nanocomposites, and polyamide films for implementation in energy harvesting is presented.

TL;DR: The finding shows that failure to account for the air exposure time may lead to widely different wettability values and contradicting arguments about the wetting transparency of graphene, suggesting that the classical van der Waals interaction theory alone is insufficient to describe the wettable of graphene.

TL;DR: Results presented herein indeed show that a combination of ultraviolet/ozone and vacuum pyrolysis treatments can be used to vary the surface concentration of these functional groups such that the carbon nanotube array can be repeatedly switched between hydrophilic and hydrophobic.

TL;DR: The results presented herein may pave a way for the utilization of superhydrophobic carbon nanotube arrays in numerous industrial and practical applications, including inkjet printing, direct injection engines, steam turbines, and microelectronic fabrication.

TL;DR: It is shown that by extending the precursor residence time, using either a multiple-pulse sequence or a soaking period, ultrathin continuous AlOx films can be achieved directly on graphene using standard H2O and trimethylaluminum precursors even at a high deposition temperature of 200 °C, without the use of surfactants or other additional graphene surface modifications.