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Polycrystalline Cr2O3 films are prepared by normal pressure chemical vapour deposition (CVD), and electrical and optical properties of the films are investigated. The films are transparent from 800 to 1000 nm wavelength, and absorbing for wavelengths shorter than 800 nm. The optical band gap energy is Eopt = 2.98 to 3.09 eV for films formed at different substrate temperatures. The electrical conductivity σ of the films is from 1 × 10−2 to 2.5 × 10−3 S cm−1 at 500 K. The films are p‐type semiconducting. At temperatures higher than 500 K. the conduction is due to small polaron hopping. For temperatures lower than 500 K, a T−1/4 dependence of σT1/2 is found, which is attributed to variable‐range hopping.

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This article studies the self-assembly of alginate-graft-poly(ethylene glycol) (Alg-g-PEG) and α-cyclodextrin (α-CD) in aqueous solution. It was found that they could form hollow spheres because of the formation of coil-rod Alg-g-PEG/α-CD inclusion complexes. In these Alg-g-PEG/α-CD complexes, the α-CDs are stacked along the PEG side chains to form a rod block, and alginate main chains act as a coil block. More rod-like blocks in Alg-g-PEG/α-CD favor the formation of small assemblies. The assemblies of Alg-g-PEG/α-CD show a dependence on concentration, temperature, pH, and salt concentration. At low concentration (below 0.125%) or high temperature (above 32 °C), Alg-g-PEG/α-CD particles were unstable and disrupted. Increasing the salt or decreasing the pH resulted in the aggregation of Alg-g-mPEG/α-CD particles, as detected by the increase in the recorded hydrodynamic diameter (D(h)).