Journal of Materials Chemistry Hot Papers:
Films, layers and coatings
Journal of Materials Chemistry hot papers featured in this films, layers and coatings section have been rated as "outstanding" by expert reviewers in the field. Follow each link for an article about the paper or an interview with the authors.
Nitric oxide photoreleasing multilayer films
Ludovico Valli, Gabriele Giancane and Salvatore Sortino, J. Mater. Chem., 2008, 18, 2437
DOI: 10.1039/b802126k
Hot paper: Supramolecular formation of fibrous nanostructure in donor-acceptor dyad film
05 April 2007
Kazuhito Hashimoto tells Journal of Materials Chemistry about his hot paper.
Hot paper: Aerosol-assisted chemical vapour deposition of WO3 thin films using polyoxometallate precursors and their gas sensing properties
13 February 2007
Sobia Ashraf tells Journal of Materials Chemistry about her hot paper
Hot paper: Growth of La1-xCaxMnO3 thin films by atomic layer deposition
13 February 2007
Ola Nilsen tells Journal of Materials Chemistry about his hot paper
Hot paper: H2S modified atomic layer deposition process for photocatalytic TiO2 thin films
05 February 2007
Viljami Pore, Mikko Ritala and co-workers discuss their hot paper
Hot paper: A nonoxidic sol-gel route to titanium nitride and carbonitride films by primary amine condensation
22 December 2006
Andrew Hector tells Journal of Materials Chemistry about his hot paper.
Hot paper: Atomic layer deposition of polyimide thin films
27 November 2006
Matti Putkonen and colleagues discuss their work depositing different polyimide films.

Hot communication: Designer Interfaces: Diffusional Protection of Electrodes Using Chemical Architectures
05 October 2006
Richard Compton and colleagues have constructed a designer interface consisting of monolayers or multilayers of chemically modified microbeads.

Hot paper: Fabrication and luminescence properties of zinc oxide films doped with tri- and tetravalent cations
20 July 2006
Dirk Ehrentraut reports on the preparation of single-crystalline, homoepitaxial, cation-doped zinc oxide films by liquid phase epitaxy

Hot paper: Electrodeposition of Mesoporous CdTe Films from Liquid Crystalline Phases
26 June 2006
Iris Nandhakumar reports on the electrodeposition of nanostructured CdTe films from lyotropic liquid crystalline phases using citric acid.

Hot paper: Sub 50 nm Feature Sizes using Positive Tone Molecular Glass Resists for EUV Lithography
07 February 2006
Christopher Ober reports on new glass resists for Extreme Ultra Violet Lithography, which can be used to produce features as small as 30 nm
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Including reviews on thin film deposition, self-cleaning coatings and porous films
