Marangoni effect induced macro porous surface films prepared through a facile sol-gel route

Abstract Based on TiO2 as a model system, the sol-gel one step facile method is established to fabricate the macro-porous morphology films on the basis of Marangoni effect. In this proposed mechanism, the binary mixture of hydrophilic CuCl2 and lipophilic Ti-O network is used in sol to produce phase...

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Main Authors: Shahid Khan, Kangkai Wang, Guangzhong Yuan, Mahmood ul Haq, Zhizheng Wu, Muhammad Usman, Chenlu Song, Gaorong Han, Yong Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05506-7