Finally, they isolated the formed metal oxide, e.g. HfO 2, Al 2 O 3, or GdO 2, by briefly touching a substrate to the droplet. Analysis via high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM) ...

An accidental twist in semiconductor research has led to a breakthrough that could fix a common issue in zinc batteries. A team of researchers at the Purdue Polytechnic Institute stumbled upon a ...

One of the key challenges 2D materials still face is their uniform wafer-scale deposition. Here, the authors present a deposition method for post-transition metal dichalcogenides, based on ...

α-Al2O3 protective layer that sticks to metal surface with functions of an anchor and peg Elucidating the mechanism of protective layers on fusion reactors that resist peeling ...

Metal oxide sandwiches: New option to manipulate properties of interfaces. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2016 / 02 / 160204111409.htm ...

PVD allowed them to deposit onto glass metal layers only 10 to 20 nanometers thick. An oxide layer then forms spontaneously in air. It grows to a thickness of 2 nanometers and then stops growing.

Three "special" oxides – aluminum oxide, chromium oxide and silicon dioxide – can actually work to protect metal from further corrosion. So the MIT team set out to explore why this was the case.

Welding stainless steel makes the cleaning and passivation of the material even more critical. The heat of the process ...

Researchers at IIT Mandi have developed high-quality, uniform thin films of nickel oxide on the silicon substrate using an aerosol-assisted chemical vapor deposition technique, with nickel nitrate ...

Scientists use peroxide to peer into metal oxide reactions. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 23, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 04 / 230407110731.htm ...