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Physical activation and characterization of tannin-based foams enforced with boric acid and zinc chloride
2019
In this study, tannin-furanic-based foams enforced with H3BO3 and ZnCl2 are investigated, as well as their properties such as mechanical strength, specific surface area, and pore size distribution. From an industrial point of view, the aforementioned properties of these foams play a key role when used as catalyst, adsorbent, or gas storing materials. Therefore, this study aims to prove that such enforced tannin-furanic foams are promising materials for these types of applications. According to the results, materials that are up to five times stronger can be achieved by carbonizing the foams in comparison to maturing them. With physical activation, it was possible to obtain a specific surfac…
High-temperature transport properties of La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 films
1999
Abstract The giant negative magnetoresistance in manganites has been investigated from the Curie temperature T c up to 600 K (2.6 T c ) in magnetic fields up to 8 T. Nonadiabatic small polaron hopping can successfully describe the temperature dependence of the resistivity. The magnetic field influence on the activation energy is explained by the interaction of unclustered ions with small spin clusters of four ions.
Relaxor ferroelectric ceramics of LiTaO3-type
1992
Abstract A ferroelectric relaxation has been identified in Li1-xCax (Ta1-xZrx)O3(x = 0.15 and 0.20) ceramics with LiTaO3-type structure. The relaxation frequency fr is minimum and the dispersion step (ϵ′S - ϵ′∞) is maximum at TC. When x increases, a higher conductivity associated with a lower activation energy and a decrease of the magnitude of fr at Tc are observed, while the unit cell volume becomes larger, TC lower and the transition more diffuse.
Inhibition of the detrimental double vortex-kink formation in thick YBa2Cu3O7films with BaZrO3nanorods
2013
We investigated the temperature (T) variation of the normalized magnetization relaxation rate S and of the corresponding normalized vortex-creep activation energy U* = T/S for YBa2Cu3O7 films containing BaZrO3 nanorods, with the external magnetic field H oriented perpendicular to the film surface. It was found that by increasing the film thickness and using nanodot decorated substrates the high-T S(T) maximum appearing at low H is substituted by a minimum in S(T). As revealed by the analysis of the current density dependence of U*, this behaviour is due to the inhibition of vortex excitations involving double vortex-kinks and superkinks formation in the investigated thick films, owing to th…
Impedance spectroscopy studies of SrMnO3, BaMnO3and Ba0.5Sr0.5MnO3ceramics
2014
The impedance spectrum of hexagonal SrMnO3, rhombohedral BaMnO3 and orthorhombic Ba0.5Sr0.5MnO3 ceramics, synthesized by conventional high-temperature method, was studied in a wide temperature and frequency range. The complex impedance plots of Z″ versus Z′ pointed to two contributions originating from grains and grain boundaries. The parameters of electric equivalent circuit were calculated. The semicircles related to the grain boundary are located at the lower frequency side due to higher resistivity and capacity of the grain boundaries. The Ba0.5Sr0.5MnO3 ceramics is characterized by the lowest activation energy related to the grains. The conductivities σac of all the investigated sample…
Dielectric relaxation phenomenon and conductivity in lead-free ceramics
2018
Abstract Relaxation phenomena and electric conductivity of (1-x) KNbO3-xK0.5Bi0.5TiO3 system where x = 0, 0.025, 0.05, 0.075, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 have been studied at high temperature. A relaxation behavior was observed in temperature range 400 K ≤ T ≤ 550 K for orthorhombic solid solutions at room temperature. The activation energy (Ea) of this phenomenon was range from 0.68 eV for x = 0–0.489 eV for x = 0.075 with τ0 = 10−13 s. The relaxation was attributed to hopping of oxygen vacancies for solid solutions x ≤ 0.075. Substitution by K0.5Bi0.5TiO3 does not affect the electrical conductivity of KNbO3 too much, while the mobility of species such as oxygen vacancies and oxygen ions allow the incre…
Molecular dynamics of carrageenan composites reinforced with Cloisite Na+ montmorillonite nanoclay
2017
[EN] Nanocomposites comprising biodegradable carrageenan and glycerol(KCg) as the host polymer, with different contents of natural montmorillonite (MMT) as filler, were prepared by a solution casting process. Different techniques have been used to determine the interaction/behavior among the different components of the samples such as Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Transmission electron microscope (TEM) and, mainly, Dielectric relaxation spectroscopy (DRS). FTIR indicates hydrogen interaction between carrageenan matrix and silicate that is confirmed by the XRD data indicating some kind of carrageenan intercalation between the MMT layers. A rather ho…
Effect of Chitin Whiskers on the Molecular Dynamics of Carrageenan-Based Nanocomposites
2019
[EN] Films of carrageenan (KC) and glycerol (g) with different contents of chitin nanowhiskers (CHW) were prepared by a solution casting process. The molecular dynamics of pure carrageenan (KC), carrageenan/glycerol (KCg) and KCg with different quantities of CHWs as a filler was studied using dielectric relaxation spectroscopy. The analysis of the CHW effect on the molecular mobility at the glass transition, T-g, indicates that non-attractive intermolecular interactions between KCg and CHW occur. The fragility index increased upon CHW incorporation, due to a reduction in the polymer chains mobility produced by the CHW confinement of the KCg network. The apparent activation energy associated…
Highly activated screen-printed carbon electrodes by electrochemical treatment with hydrogen peroxide
2018
An easy effective method for the activation of commercial screen-printed carbon electrodes (SPCEs) using H2O2 is presented to enhance sensing performances of carbon ink. Electrochemical activation consists of 25 repetitive voltammetric cycles at 10 mV s−1 using 10 mM H2O2 in phosphate buffer (pH 7). This treatment allowed us to reach a sensitivity of 0.24 ± 0.01 μA μM−1 cm−2 for the electroanalysis of H2O2, which is 140-fold higher than that of untreated SPCEs and 6-fold more than screen-printed platinum electrodes (SPPtEs). Electrode surface properties were characterized by SEM, EIS and XPS. The results revealed atomic level changes at the electrode surface, with the introduction of new ca…
Ab initioand semiempirical calculations ofH−centers in MgO crystals
1999
The atomic and electronic structure of ${\mathrm{H}}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ ions substituting for ${\mathrm{O}}^{2\ensuremath{-}}$ ions in regular sites in MgO crystals are calculated using an ab initio Hartree-Fock (HF) cluster approach and its semiempirical version, intermediate neglect of the differential overlap. The theoretical optical absorption energy is predicted to be 10 eV, which is supported by analysis of experimental data for the ${\mathrm{H}}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ centers in a series of ionic crystals. The HF simulations of ${\mathrm{H}}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ ion diffusion via direct interstitial hops along the [100] axis predict an activation energy of about 3 eV.