Modification of Cotton and Leather Surfaces Using Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasma and TiO-SiO-Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanopowders.

Surface modification of textile fabrics and leathers is very versatile and allows the products quality improvement. In this work, cotton and leather substrates were pre-treated with cold atmospheric pressure plasma (CAPP) and further coated with TiO-SiO-reduced graphene oxide composites in dispersion form. By using a Taguchi scheme, this research evaluated the effect of three significant parameters, i.

Luminescence, Paramagnetic, and Electrochemical Properties of Copper Oxides-Decorated TiO/Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites.

The properties of newly synthesized CuO/CuO-decorated TiO/graphene oxide (GO) nanocomposites (NC) were analyzed aiming to obtain insight into their photocatalytic behavior and their various applications, including water remediation, self-cleaning surfaces, antibacterial materials, and electrochemical sensors. The physico-chemical methods of research were photoluminescence (PL), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry (CV), and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV). The solid samples evidenced an EPR signal that can be attributed to the oxygen-vacancy defects and copper ions in correlation with PL results.