Directional enhancement of refractive index and tunable wettability of polymeric coatings due to preferential dispersion of colloidal TiO2 nanorods towards their surface

Thin Solid Films

Volumn 518, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4425-4431

  Pignatelli, Francesca ^a   Carzino, Riccardo ^a   Salerno, Marco ^a   Scotto, Marco ^a   Canale, Claudio ^a   Distaso, Monica ^a   Rizzi, Francesco ^a   Caputo, Gianvito ^b   Cozzoli, Pantaleo Davide ^b,c   Cingolani, Roberto ^a,b   Athanassiou, Athanassia ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laser irradiation; Optical properties; Polymer matrix nanocomposites; Thin films; Titanium oxide; Wettability

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL TIO; LASER IRRADIATION; LASER IRRADIATIONS; NANO-COMPOSITE COATING; NANOCOMPOSITE FILM; OPTICAL CLARITY; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) MATRIX; POLYMER MATRIX NANOCOMPOSITES; POLYMERIC COATINGS; SUPERFICIAL LAYERS; SURFACE SMOOTHNESS; SURFACE WETTABILITY; TIO;

AGGLOMERATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); ESTERS; FILM PREPARATION; IRRADIATION; LIGHT REFRACTION; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANORODS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; OXIDE FILMS; PLASTIC COATINGS; POLYMER FILMS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THIN FILMS; TITANIUM; TITANIUM OXIDES;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 77953325473     PISSN: 00406090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tsf.2010.01.041     Document Type: Article

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