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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...