Publications related to Coating

Spinel Protective Coatings for Solid Oxide Cell (SOC) Interconnects (ICs)

Abstract The degradation of metal interconnects (ICs) in Solid Oxide Cells (SOCs) primarily results from chromium (Cr) oxide scale growth on stainless-steel substrates, causing ohmic loss and air-side electrode poisoning by Cr. This thesis addresses these ...

EPFL2024

Colloidal Atomic Layer Deposition on Nanocrystals Using Ligand-Modified Precursors

Raffaella Buonsanti, Anna Loiudice, Krishna Kumar, Petru Pasquale Albertini, Coline Marie Agathe Boulanger, Jari Leemans, Ona Segura Lecina, Mark Adrian Newton, Philippe Benjamin Green

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a method to grow thin metal oxide layers on a variety of materials for applications spanning from electronics to catalysis. Extending ALD to colloidally stable nanocrystals promises to combine the benefits of thin metal oxi ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

The Structural Dispersity of Oligoethylene Glycol-Containing Polymer Brushes Determines Their Interfacial Properties

Harm-Anton Klok, Alberto Ongaro, Irene Filipucci

Ought to their bioinert properties and facile synthesis, poly[(oligoethylene glycol)methacrylate]s (POEGMAs) have been raised as attractive alternatives to poly(ethylene glycols) (PEGs) in an array of (bio)material applications, especially when they are ap ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Examination of commercial ceramic coatings for the electrical insulation of Bi-2212 wire

Davide Uglietti, Andrea Testino, Robert Sobota

In the last twenty years, a number of studies have been dedicated to the development of thin ceramic coating for the electrical insulation of Ag-sheathed Bi-2212 wires. Instead of preparing a coating by mixing different compounds in house, this technical n ...

2023

Synthesis of metal oxide-overcoated carbon materials by liquid phase ALD and their applications in catalysis

Farzaneh Talebkeikhah

Coating nano particles and other substrates for efficiency enhancement, protection and obtaining new atomic structures is a widespread research topic in catalysis and material synthesis. Thus far, different approaches of coating, ranging from simplest to s ...

EPFL2023

Single-arm diagnostic electrocardiography with printed graphene on wearable textiles

Ata Jedari Golparvar

Stimulated by the COVID-19 outbreak, the global healthcare industry better acknowledges the necessity of innovating novel methods for remote healthcare monitoring and treating patients outside clinics. Here we report the development of two different types ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Control of intermetallics in the interface in directed energy deposition of titanium on stainless steel 316L

Di Cui

Application of a single metal or alloy is often restricted by its properties from optimal combination of performance and cost. Therefore, there is a vast need of joining dissimilar metals for various applications in biomedical, aerospace, automobile and ma ...

EPFL2023

Transparent Porous Conductive Substrates for Gas-Phase Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production

Kevin Sivula, Jun Ho Yum, Marina Caroline Michèle Caretti, Benjamin Goldman, Rebekah Anne Wells, Simon Nussbaum, Emeline Cécile Rideau, Loï Charles Carbone, Elizaveta Potapova Mensi, Linda Lazouni, Hannah Elizabeth Johnson

Gas diffusion electrodes are essential components of common fuel and electrolysis cells but are typically made from graphitic carbon or metallic materials, which do not allow light transmittance and thus limit the development of gas-phase based photoelectr ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Tailoring the performance of nanocellulose-based multilayer-barrier paperboard using biodegradable-thermoplastics, pigments, and plasticizers

Tiffany Abitbol

In this work a multilayer barrier paperboard was produced in a roll-to-roll process by slot-die coating of nanocellulose (microfibrillated cellulose or carboxymethylated cellulose nanofibrils) followed by extrusion coating of biodegradable thermoplastics ( ...

SPRINGER2023

Tuning the tribological performance of plasma-treated hybrid layers of PEEK-GO-DLC

Roberto Guarino

Graphene and graphene oxide (GO)-based coatings are of great interest due to their mechanical, electrical and/or thermal performance that add functionalities to materials employed in many industrial and biomedical appli-cations. Hybrid diamond-like carbon ...

2022

Polysaccharide Layer-by-Layer Coating for Polyimide-Based Neural Interfaces

Silvestro Micera

Implantable flexible neural interfaces (IfNIs) are capable of directly modulating signals of the central and peripheral nervous system by stimulating or recording the action potential. Despite outstanding results in acute experiments on animals and humans, ...

MDPI2022

Evaluation of inkjet-printed spinel coatings on standard and surface nitrided ferritic stainless steels for interconnect application in solid oxide fuel cell devices

Manuel Bianco

Inkjet printing technology was employed for the application of protective layer coatings in SOFC metallic interconnects. Aqueous-based spinel coatings were inkjet-printed on standard and surface nitrided K41 ferritic stainless-steel substrates. Inkjet-prin ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Slot-Die Coating of an On-the-Shelf Polymer with Increased Dielectric Permittivity for Stack Actuators

Yauhen Sheima

Nitrile-butadiene rubbers (NBR) have been extensively used as dielectric materials due to their commercial availability, excellent mechanical properties, glass transition temperature below 0 degrees C, and increased dielectric permittivity owing to the pre ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Development of stencil lithography for stretchable interconnects

Yi-Chiang Sun

The growing needs for human healthcare have driven the development of wearable devices for monitoring the health status of an individual. Polymers represent a promising platform for such devices due to their ability to form an intimate contact between soft ...

EPFL2022

A Study on MoS2 Nanolayer Coated Etched Fiber Bragg Grating Strain Sensor

Suneetha Sebastian

In this paper, we report on the comprehensive study on Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanolayer coated etched Fiber Bragg Grating (eFBG) strain sensor. MoS2 nanolayer is coated using Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) of Molybdenum (Mo) on eFBGs followed by sulf ...

2021

Coating Porous MXene Films with Tunable Porosity for High-Performance Solid-State Supercapacitors

Jakob Heier, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh

Two-dimensional MXenes with their outstanding physical and chemical properties have been extensively used in numerous fields such as electrochemical energy storage, catalysis, and sensing. In these applications, high active surface area and facilitated dif ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Succinimidyl Carbonate-Based Amine-Reactive Polymer Brushes: Facile Fabrication of Functional Interfaces

Harm-Anton Klok

Polymeric coatings that can undergo effective functionalization with ligands and (bio)molecules necessary for intended applications are widely employed to engineer functional interfaces. Herein, amine-reactive polymer brushes are fabricated using a succini ...

2021

Fretting-corrosion behavior of electroless Ni-P/Ni-P-TiO2 coatings obtained on AZ91D magnesium alloy by a chromium-free process

Stefano Mischler, Angela Bermudez Castañeda

Ni-P electroless coatings are widely applied for protection of magnesium alloys and other materials due to the low energy consumption of the process and high resistance to corrosion and wear, properties that can be improved with the incorporation of partic ...

ELSEVIER2020

Towards industrialization of perovskite solar cells using slot die coating

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier

Carbon-based hole transport layer-free carbon mesoscopic perovskite solar cells (MPSCs) are considered to be cell architectures with high potential for commercialization, due to their enhanced stability. In the standard process for large area and module fa ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Laser coating of a Zr-based metallic glass on an aluminum substrate

Roland Logé, Stefano Mischler, Jamasp Jhabvala, Alejandro Roda Buch, Navid Sohrabi

Cladding of a Zr-based metallic glass (MG) on an aluminum substrate was conducted using a layer-wise laser additive manufacturing (AM) method, leading to relative densities higher than 99%. The thickness of the cladding was about 300 μm. The effect of lase ...

2020