It is increasingly being recognized that new applications for materials require functions and
properties that are not achievable with monolithic materials. The combination of dissimilar …

This paper purports to review catalysis, particularly the organocatalysis and its origin, key
trends, challenges, examples, scope, and importance. The definition of organocatalyst …

This concise edition of Hari Singh Nalwa's Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and
Nanotechnology fills the needs of scientists and students working in chemistry, physics …

Luster is a decorative metallic film that was applied on the surface of medieval glazed
pottery. It can be obtained via the low‐temperature (∼ 650° C), controlled reduction of …

The book provides a short introduction to the sol-gel process, principles in modification of
the sols and technical details of the application on textiles, covering in particular the …

Following the recent finding that luster decorations in glazes of historical pottery consist of
copper and silver nanoparticles dispersed in a glassy medium, the glaze in-depth …

It has been recently shown that lustre decoration of medieval and renaissance pottery
consists of silver and copper nanocrystals, dispersed within the glassy matrix of the ceramic …

Antimicrobial textile materials were produced by sol–gel coatings with embedded biocidal
compounds. For preparation a sol–gel procedure was used, starting from pure silica sols …

Lustre was one of the most sophisticated techniques for the decoration of majolicas during
the Renaissance period. Lustre consists of a thin metallic film containing silver, copper and …

This study investigates the feasibility of a novel nanocomposite (GC/Ag) of a genipin‐
crosslinked chitosan (GC) film in which was embedded various amounts of Ag nanoparticles …