Evaporation kinetics in highly porous tetrapodal zinc oxide networks studied using in situ SRµCT.

ABSTRACT: Tetrapodal zinc oxide (t-ZnO) is used to fabricate polymer composites for many different applications ranging from biomedicine to electronics. In recent times, macroscopic framework structures from t-ZnO have been used as a versatile sacrificial template for the synthesis of multi-scaled foam structures from different nanomaterials such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride or gallium nitride. Many of these fabrication methods rely on wet-chemical coating processes using nanomaterial dispersions, leading to a strong interest in the actual coating mechanism and factors influencing it. Depending on the type of medium (e.g. solvent) used, different results regarding the homogeneity of the nanomaterial coating can be achieved. In order to understand how a medium influences the coating behavior,

SUBMITTER: Hindenlang B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8511110 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature