Catalytic materials for biofuel conversion

https://doi.org/10.1080/09506608.2017.1423158

2018-01-22

Over the last three decades, there has been a large increase in the production and use of biofuels. This has led researchers to study alternative strategies for converting biofuel energy into electrical energy. This review starts with an introduction to the f...

Tribological behaviour of self-lubricating materials at high temperatures

https://doi.org/10.1080/09506608.2017.1410944

2017-12-11

Self-lubricating materials are becoming more widespread in fields like metal forming or power generation due to the inability to use conventional lubricants in high-temperature (HT) applications. In an effort to summarise the progress done in this field, a de...

Ultrafast laser processing of silicon for photovoltaics

https://doi.org/10.1080/09506608.2017.1389547

2017-11-08

The photovoltaics market has been growing rapidly in the past decade or so, driven by policy support, growing economies of scale, and technological improvements. Continued advances in photovoltaics manufacturing and technologies may drive further cost reducti...

Nanostructured photocatalysis in the visible spectrum for the decontamination of air and water

https://doi.org/10.1080/09506608.2017.1379264

2017-09-30

Photocatalytic remediation aligns with the zero waste schemes of waste and wastewater industries with low cost, environment-friendly and sustainable treatment technologies. Efforts are made to increase the photocatalytic activity of photocatalysts (titanium o...

Corrosion-fatigue: a review of damage tolerance models

https://doi.org/10.1080/09506608.2017.1375644

2017-09-25

The synergistic combination of mechanical fatigue stresses and environmental agents acting together can be more detrimental than that of the summation of the contributions of each mechanism acting separately. Major attempts to understand the contribution of t...

Three-dimensional graphene monolith-based composite: superiority in properties and applications

https://doi.org/10.1080/09506608.2017.1344377

2017-07-05

With the development of graphene research, the three-dimensional graphene monolith (3DGM), which can be prepared by the chemical vapour deposition method (CVD-3DGM) and the self-assembly of reduced graphene oxide nanosheets (RGO-3DGM), has drawn increasing at...

Polymer derived silicon oxycarbide-based coatings

https://doi.org/10.1080/09506608.2017.1322247

2017-05-18

Silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) is a promising protective coating material. However, so far there has not been any comprehensive review to systematically evaluate the characteristics and properties of this material as coatings. In this review, SiOC compositions and...

Progress in CVD synthesis of layered hexagonal boron nitride with tunable properties and their applications

https://doi.org/10.1080/09506608.2017.1322833

2017-05-15

A very thin layer of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is an important 2D nanomaterial, sometimes called ‘white graphene’, with many properties distinct from graphene. However, the lack of controlled synthesis of high quality and wide-area films largely prevents...