Esther Pascual

TL;DR: Of the tested processes, Fenton reagent was found to the fastest one for phenol degradation, and lower costs were obtained with ozonation in the ozone combinations, and UV/H2O2 showed the highest degradation rate.

TL;DR: A new Mueller matrix (MM) microscope is described that generalizes and makes quantitative the polarized light microscopy technique and can be applied to any visible wavelength.

TL;DR: In this paper, Boron carbide thin films were deposited in a tuned RF magnetron sputtering system from a target of B4C with Ar as the processing gas, and the ion bombardment during film growth was controlled by the substrate-tuning technique, which allows the setting up of a variable DC bias even for insulant materials.

TL;DR: The relationship between metal-induced (W, Mo, Nb and Ti) structures and the surface properties of Me-DLC thin films is discussed in this article, which shows the possibilities of controlling the amorphous carbon films structure and surface properties by introducing metal in the DLC matrix.

TL;DR: In this article, the growth of carbon nanotube (CNT) films on copper substrates by the catalytic chemical vapour deposition route was investigated and it was found that virtually no CNT grew on pure copper, but long and densely packed mats of CNTs could be grown on TiN-coated copper.