Search results for " Zirconia"

Formation of layered titania and zirconia catalysed by surface-bound silicatein

2005

Silicatein immobilised on self-assembled polymer layers using a histidine-tag chelating anchor group retains its hydrolytical activity for the formation of biosilica, and catalyses the formation of layered arrangements of biotitania and biozirconia.

ODS ferritic steels obtained from gas atomized powders through the STARS processing route: Reactive synthesis as an alternative to mechanical alloying

2018

Authors acknowledge ALBA synchrotron (Spain) for the provision of beamtime on the beam line BL22-CLAESS (Proposal 2016081797). Transmission electron microscopy observations were accomplished at Centro Nacional de Microscopía Electrónica, CNME-UCM. This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium and has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014–2018 under grant agreement No 633053. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission. Financial support from Basque Government through the ELKARTEK ACTIMAT 2016 project is also acknowledged.

In situ XRD analysis of the oxide layers formed by oxidation at 743 K on Zircaloy 4 and Zr–1NbO

2000

Abstract Two alloys, having different oxidation behaviour (Zy4 and Zr–1NbO), have been investigated during oxidation at high temperature (743 K) and low oxygen pressure (10 kPa) by in situ X-ray diffraction (XRD). Tetragonal phase content and ‘pseudo-stresses’ on the monoclinic phase have been measured as a function of the oxide layer thickness. The tetragonal phase contents are similar for both alloys and decreased with the oxide layer thickness. Pseudo-stresses were much more compressive on Zr–1NbO alloy, with limited changes at the corrosion kinetics transition. On cooling, the tetragonal fractions do not change, while ‘pseudo-stresses’ decreased in different ways for the two alloys. Wit…

Micro-Raman analysis of the fuel-cladding interface in a high burnup PWR fuel rod

2017

International audience; New insights on the fuel-cladding bonding layer in high burnup nuclear fuel were obtained using micro-Raman spectroscopy. A specimen was specifically prepared from a fuel rod which had been irradiated to an average burnup of 56 GWd.tU-1 in a pressurized water reactor (PWR). Both inner and outer corrosion scale regions were investigated. A 10-15 et956;m thick zirconia bonding layer between fuel and cladding materials which consisted of three distinct regions was observed. Close to the fuel, tetragonal, then monoclinic zirconia was identified as the main phases. Close to the bonding layer-cladding interface, peculiar Raman signals were observed. Similar signals were ob…

Sintesi e caratterizzazione di compositi polimetilmetacrilato e nano-SiO2, -TiO2 o -ZrO2

2011

BST ceramics: Effect of attrition milling on dielectric properties

2004

Abstract The effect of grain size on the dielectric properties of Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 (BST) ceramics is investigated. Attrition milling is chosen to obtain nanometre particle size from micrometre particle size powders. Fine grained ceramics are obtained by hot uniaxial pressing (HUP). Additionally, the present study is focused on the effect of the nature of milling balls on loss tangent and permittivity. For that, three kinds of balls are tested: calcia, yttria or ceria stabilised zirconia balls. The properties of these samples are evaluated in the range of MHz. The balls induce an involuntary doping of powders which modifies the dielectric properties, especially the Curie temperature and loss t…

Near-coincidence lattice method for the determination of epitaxy strains during oxidation of metals

2000

Abstract A theoretical method is proposed to evaluate the strains due to epitaxy between a metal and its oxide. Based on Bollmann’s approach of two adjoining grains, it uses the quantitative texture analysis of the two materials separated by the phase boundary. Our study of the Zr/ZrO 2 and Mo/MoO 3 systems reveals strong correlations between the criterion of best fit proposed by Bollmann and the orientation distribution function obtained by a quantitative texture analysis. The results of this study are used in a thermo-mechano-chemical simulation of the oxidation process of zirconium, which leads to this observation: two different zirconia orientations induce two different oxidation kineti…

Up-conversion luminescence dependence on structure in zirconia nanocrystals

2013

The zirconia samples containing two different concentrations of Er and Yb dopants were prepared using the Sol–Gel method and up-conversion luminescence was studied using the time-resolved techniques. The up-conversion luminescence depends on the oxygen content in surrounding gasses during annealing as well as on the annealing temperature. These dependencies indicate that ZrO2 intrinsic defects annealing and generation, phase transition as well as dopant redistribution take place. The possible role of these processes on up-conversion luminescence is discussed. The results of experiments confirmed that the annealing temperature has a crucial influence on up-conversion luminescence for samples…

Thermodynamic considerations of the grain size dependency of material properties

1994

Phase transitions which depend on grain size induce very interesting properties in materials such as zirconia or barium titanate. A new and rigorous thermodynamic treatment of this type of phase transition is proposed with consideration of the surface phenomena. An interpretation is given of the observed differences when the material—particularly BaTiO3—under consideration is a fine grain powder or is a fine grain ceramic.

Crystallographic changes and thermal properties of lanthanum?strontium ferromanganites between RT and 700 �C

2005

Abstract X-ray powder diffraction was used to determine the crystallographic changes between room temperature (RT) and 700 °C of the (La 0.8 Sr 0.2 )(Mn 1− y Fe y )O 3± δ perovskites with y =0.2, 0.5, 0.8, 1 which can be considered as possible cathode materials for the ITSOFCs. For y =0.2, the rhombohedral symmetry was preserved in the whole temperature range. For y =1, a transition from orthorhombic to rhombohedral symmetry occurred at 290 °C. The compounds with y =0.5 and 0.8 were found to be diphasic at RT by combination of both rhombohedral and orthorhombic symmetries. They became only rhombohedral at 80 and 160 °C, respectively. This reversible transition is discussed in terms of iron …