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Effect of electrolytical hydrogenation on the thermal stability and crystallization kinetics of metallic glass Fe79Si9B12
2011
The effect of electrolytical hydrogenation on both the surface and volume crystallization kinetics and thermal stability of amorphous alloy Fe79Si9B12 has been investigated. The parameters of the surface and volume crystallization (temperature, activation energy) have been determined applying the exoelectron emission (EEE) and differential thermal analysis (DTA) methods, respectively. It has been found that the surface crystallization of investigated material occurs at temperature much lower and with activation energy smaller than the volume crystallization. The determination of the activation energies for the volume and surface crystallization by the combination of DTA and EEE techniques e…
Effect of the milling conditions on the degree of amorphization of selenium by milling in a planetary ball mill
2007
The effect of the milling parameters (rotation speed of the milling device and duration of milling) on the phase composition of the products of milling of fully crystalline selenium has been investigated. The milling was conducted using a planetary micromill and the phase composition of the milling products was determined by differential thermal analysis. It has been found that ball milling leads to the partial amorphization of the starting crystalline material. The content of amorphous phase in the milling products depends, in a rather complicated way, on the milling parameters. At the milling parameters adopted in the present study, the milling product was never fully amorphous. The compl…
Parametric thermal analysis for the optimization of Double Walled Tubes layout in the Water Cooled Lithium Lead inboard blanket of DEMO fusion reactor
2019
Abstract Within the roadmap that will lead to the nuclear fusion exploitation for electric energy generation, the construction of a DEMOnstration (DEMO) reactor is, probably, the most important milestone to be reached since it will demonstrate the technological feasibility and economic competitiveness of an industrial-scale nuclear fusion reactor. In order to reach this goal, several European universities and research centres have joined their efforts in the EUROfusion action, funded by HORIZON 2020 UE programme. Within the framework of EUROfusion research activities, ENEA and University of Palermo are involved in the design of the Water-Cooled Lithium Lead Breeding Blanket (WCLL BB), that …
Kinetics of phase transitions in vitreous chalcogenide semiconductors AsxSe100m-x-yBiyas studied by the differential thermal analysis and exoelectron…
2011
Kinetics of glass transition (retrification) in chalcogenide semiconductors AsxSe100-x-yBy (x = 20 or 30, and y = 0 and 1) has been investigated by parallel differential thermal analysis (DTA) and exoelectron emission (EEE) measurements. EEE is a surface effect accompanying the structural transformations in the surface layer, whereas the DTA technique gives information about the transformations occurring in the volume of the sample. Temperature dependencies of the DTA signal and of the EEE intensity have been determined and the values of the activation energy for both the volume and the surface retrification have been determined by the Ozawa method for each of the four investigated material…
K2AuPS4, TI2AuPS4, K2AuAsS4, and KAu5P2S8: Syntheses, structures, and properties of quaternary gold thiophosphate and thioarsenate compounds
1998
The novel compounds K2AuPS4 (1), Tl2AuPS4 (2), K2AuAsS4 (3), and KAu5P2S8 (4) have been synthesized by direct reaction of the elements with a molten alkaline polythiophosphate(arsenate) flux at 550°C. The crystal structures of these compounds have been determined by single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques. 1, 2, and 3 crystallize in the monoclinic space group P21/m. The structures of 1, 2, and 3 consist of infinite, one-dimensional anionic chains running along the crystallographic b axis. The chains are separated by potassium or thallium ions. Neighbouring Au atoms are bridged by MS43− tetrahedra (M = P, As) in a trans orientation. Compound 4 crystallizes in the space group P21/c. The a…
Phase evolution by thermal treatment of equimolar cobalt–magnesium cordierite glass powders
2004
Abstract The structural evolution with annealing time at temperatures between 900 and 1100 °C of loosely compacted equimolar cobalt–magnesium cordierite glass powder was reported. The glass, with composition MgCoAl4Si5O18, was prepared by melting a glass precursor, previously synthesized by a semiwet method, at 1650 °C. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) of isothermally heated glasses at 900 and 950 °C revealed increased phase separation with thermal treatment. X-ray diffraction (XRD) results of these powders indicated that the first crystalline phase formed was μ cobalt-containing cordierite which transformed to α cordierite with longer annealing. At the beginning of the μ…
SURFACE AND VOLUME CRYSTALLIZATION OF METALLIC GLASS (Ni50Zr50)99.9P0.1 AS INVESTIGATED BY EXOELECTRON EMISSION (EEE) AND DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYS…
2002
Surface and volume crystallization of amorphous, melt-quenched (Ni50Zr50)99.9P0.1 alloy has been investigated by measurements of the temperature dependencies of the intensity of photostimulated exoelectron emission (EEE) and by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). A comparison of these dependencies enables one to assess the tendency of the investigated materials to premature surface crystallization. For the (Ni50Zr50)99.9P0.1 alloy the surface crystallization occurs at temperatures distinctly lower than that for the crystallization in bulk. The activation energy for the surface crystallization, determined by the Ozawa method, i.e. from the shift of EEE peak corresponding to the surface…
Relaxor ferroelectric PbSc1/2Nb1/2O3—PbZn1/3Nb2/3O3— PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3ceramics
2000
Abstract Original ternary solid solutions PbSc1/2Nb1/2O3 — PbZn1/3Nb2/3O3-PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3 (PSN-PZN-PMN) have been synthesized by solid state reaction from oxides. Ceramic samples have been obtained by both conventional and hot pressing techniques. The density of the obtained hot pressed ceramics reaches 98% of the value calculated from X-ray data. Dense, high quality samples of pure PZN and compositions containing over 0.8 molar parts of PZN could not be obtained — porosity was up to 10% and they were mainly comprised of the cubic pyrochlore phase. Density, porosity, water absorbtivity, and dielectric permittivity and dissipation factor of the ceramic samples have been measured. Data of diff…
Corundum type indium oxide nanostructures: ambient pressure synthesis from InOOH, and optical and photocatalytic properties
2016
A simple, cost effective, surfactant free and scalable synthesis of rhombohedral In2O3 (rh-In2O3) nanostructures with controllable size and shape has been developed under ambient pressure by thermal dehydration of InOOH nanostructures. The InOOH nanostructures have been prepared by solvothermal reaction between indium nitrate hydrate with tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) in anhydrous methanol at 140 °C without any surfactant. The structure and morphology of the nanostructures have been characterized in detail by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Raman spectroscopy, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). The studies reveal that highly crystalline nanostructures of In…
Effect of the dopant selection (Er, Eu, Nd or Ce) and its quantity on the formation of yttrium aluminum garnet nanopowders
2008
Abstract Hydroxide precursors, synthesized using the co-precipitation method, were calcined for 1 h at the temperatures of 900, 1000 and 1100 °C, respectively, and heated directly to 1500 °C to produce various Y 3 Al 5 O 12 (YAG) nanopowders with different doping quantities of erbium, europium, neodymium and cerium. All samples were investigated using thermo-gravimetry (TG) and differential thermal analysis (DTA), field emission gun-scanning electron microscopy (FEG-SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). TG and DTA experiments were performed from room temperature up to 1500 °C; the weight loss curves combined with the presence of exo- and endo-thermal even…