{"id":209514,"date":"2025-03-22T14:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/innovative-technology-enables-rapid-thin-film-manufacturing-in-one-minute-using-only-water-and-oil"},"modified":"2025-03-22T14:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:09:21","slug":"innovative-technology-enables-rapid-thin-film-manufacturing-in-one-minute-using-only-water-and-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/innovative-technology-enables-rapid-thin-film-manufacturing-in-one-minute-using-only-water-and-oil","title":{"rendered":"Innovative technology enables rapid thin film manufacturing in one minute using only water and oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/innovative-technology-enables-rapid-thin-film-manufacturing-in-one-minute-using-only-water-and-oil.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new technology has been developed that enables the manufacturing of thin films, which typically require complex processes, using only water and oil in just one minute. Professor Kang Hee Ku and her research team from the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST announced their novel process for creating catalytic thin films using oil droplets dispersed in water.<\/p>\n<p>The developed technology involves a process in which nanomaterial precursors attached to the surface of oil droplets float to the surface of the water, where they assemble into a thin film. When <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hydrogen+peroxide\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hydrogen peroxide<\/a> is added, it decomposes due to the thin film precursors, producing gas bubbles that cause the precursors to be lifted and assembled on the water surface within one minute.<\/p>\n<p>This process allows for precise control of the thin film thickness, adjustable from 350 \u03bcm, and enables the synthesis of thin films covering an area of up to 100 cm\u00b2 using various raw materials. The resulting thin films exhibit a porous structure with a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/high+surface+area\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high surface area<\/a>, featuring exceptional mechanical strength and flexibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technology has been developed that enables the manufacturing of thin films, which typically require complex processes, using only water and oil in just one minute. Professor Kang Hee Ku and her research team from the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST announced their novel process for creating catalytic thin films using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}