NEW TECHNOLOGIES

International. Using low-temperature plasma treatments, Chinese scientists investigated its influence on the adhesion of the ecological paint film of the wooden surface, discovering as a result an improvement in the adhesion of the coating.

International. Taking as a model the wings of insects such as dragonflies, which boast the existence of ordered biological nanostructures on their surface and provide them with a unique camouflage capacity, scientists developed photonic crystal (PC) films of high transparency and vivid structural colors.

United States. The W.M. Keck Foundation awarded a million-dollar grant to a team led by chemists at the University of Texas at Austin to develop an innovative coating for silicon-based solar cells that could increase their efficiency by up to 20%, lowering the costs of solar power generation.

International. Researchers at Qingdao Binhai University in China studied _TiO2 particles prepared by the sol-gel method with different diameters, finding that these can improve the self-cleaning and anti-corrosion properties of acrylic resin.

International. Scientists reveal an ecological and economical strategy for the synthesis of soluble graphene (E-graphene) by using a solution of eucalyptus polyphenol that is obtained from a bark extract of the tree of the same name, as a replacement for the graphene oxide (GO) chemical reduction method.