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Crystal Reorientation and Amorphization Induced by Stressing Efficient and Stable P–I–N Vacuum‐Processed MAPbI 3 Perovskite Solar Cells
2021
Herein, the long-term stability of vacuum-deposited methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI(3)) perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of around 19% is evaluated. A low-temperature atomic layer deposition (ALD) Al2O3 coating is developed and used to protect the MAPbI(3) layers and the solar cells from environmental agents. The ALD encapsulation enables the MAPbI(3) to be exposed to temperatures as high as 150 degrees C for several hours without change in color. It also improves the thermal stability of the solar cells, which maintain 80% of the initial PCEs after aging for approximate to 40 and 37days at 65 and 85 degrees C, respectively. However, room-temperature…
Halloysite nanotubes/pluronic nanocomposites for waterlogged archeological wood: thermal stability and X-ray microtomography
2020
Filling a polymer with halloysite nanotubes is considered a promising strategy to generate nanocomposites with tailored physicochemical properties. We have focused our attention on pluronic block copolymer/halloysite nanocomposites prepared by melt blending. The effect of composition on thermal stability and polymer crystallinity was investigated by thermogravimetry and differential scanning calorimetry. Electron microscopy was used to monitor the nanoparticle distribution in the polymeric matrix. The pluronic thermal stability is reduced by the clay nanoparticles. Concerning the polymer crystallinity, it is slightly decreased even if the melting temperature is lowered by halloysite. Furthe…
Structure-dependent tuning of electro-optic and thermoplastic properties in triphenyl groups containing molecular glasses
2015
Abstract The series of seven molecular compounds composed of D–π–A chromophores and triphenylmethyl auxiliary groups were characterized by UV–Vis spectroscopy, differential scanning calorimetry and quantum chemical calculations. Nonlinear optical (NLO) properties of compounds were determined by second harmonic generation measurements in corona poled thin glassy films. The results show that triphenylmethyl auxiliary groups are effective at shielding undesirable dipole interactions in solid phase thus increasing NLO efficiency of materials. Thermal stability up to 108 °C was achieved for a polar order in poled samples.
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…
Thermal stability under air of tungsten–titanium diffusion barrier layer between silica and platinum
2014
Abstract The present work investigated the thermal stability of tungsten–titanium diffusion barrier layers intercalated between SiO 2 substrate and platinum thin film. The resulting structures were annealed under air in the temperature range 400–600 °C for annealing times up to 100 h. Chemical and structural characterizations at different stages of the treatment evidenced several phenomena occurring during annealing under air, especially the complete oxidation of the adhesive layer, the diffusion of tungsten oxide through platinum film at particle boundaries as well as the sublimation process of tungsten oxide. The results of film surface chemistry and microstructure were correlated with di…
Comparative study of air and vacuum annealing atmosphere towards Pt/Ti–W/SiO2 stability
2013
Abstract The thermal stability of Pt/Ti–W/SiO2 system was studied after annealing under air or vacuum in the present work. A Ti–W adhesive film (30 at. % Ti) was deposited on a SiO2 substrate followed by a thicker Pt layer. Depositions were performed using DC magnetron sputtering. The whole as-deposited films are metallic with a columnar growth of platinum deposit which totally wets the substrate. Whatever the atmosphere is, annealing at 500 °C for 12 h does not change the platinum state but modifies the morphology of platinum particles, the lateral average size of which increasing from less than 10 nm up to ca. 75 nm. Besides, a noticeable diffusion of metallic tungsten through Pt film is …
Hygroexpansivity of anisotropic sheets
2015
Dimensional instability, more particularly its component hygroexpansivity, may cause problems in process or end-use situations in which paper or board is in contact with water or subject to changes in ambient relative humidity. Misregistration in printing, curl during copying and calender wrinkles are examples of such defects. In this paper, the in-plane hygroexpansivity of oriented laboratory sheets with different pulps and dried both freely and under restraint is studied. A linear relationship between the drying shrinkage and hygroexpansion coefficient of freely dried laboratory sheets having different fiber orientation anisotropies, was observed. Regardless of both the measurement direct…
Labyrinthine instability of miscible magnetic fluids
2002
Abstract We consider an inhomogeneous magnetic fluid (MF), modeling a miscible MF pair, in a Hele–Shaw cell under a normal field. A linear stability analysis for the sharp straight interface (analytically) and for the diffused one (numerically) is performed. For the former case, the neutral curves and the stability diagram are found along with the critical wavelength and parameter values. Oscillatory or monotonous instabilities are shown to occur. For the diffused interface, we recognize the importance of 2D flow viscous effects along with the conventional wall friction and observe that in strong fields the dominant wavelength scales as the cell gap.
Electronic structure and thermodynamic stability ofLaMnO3andLa1−xSrxMnO3(001) surfaces:Ab initiocalculations
2008
We present the results of ab initio hybrid density-functional calculations of the atomic and the electronic structures of ${\text{LaMnO}}_{3}$ (LMO) and ${\text{La}}_{1\ensuremath{-}{x}_{b}}{\text{Sr}}_{{x}_{b}}{\text{MnO}}_{3}$ (001) surfaces. The total energies obtained from these calculations were used to analyze thermodynamic stability of the surfaces. We predict Sr and O vacancy segregation to the surface to occur with similar energies ($\ensuremath{\sim}0.5\text{ }\text{eV}$ per defect). In pure LMO only ${\text{MnO}}_{2}$ termination is thermodynamically favorable under typical operational conditions of a cathode in solid oxide fuel cells, whereas Sr doping makes La(Sr)O termination …
Topography and morphology of multicomponent catalytic materials based on Co, Ce and Pd oxides deposited on metallic structured carriers studied by AF…
2013
A system of interfaced AFM and Raman microscopes was used to study heterogeneity of complex cat- alytic materials providing information on both the topography and the chemical composition of the surface in one measurement. The catalysts surface was examined at various stages of their preparation: precalcination of steel, washcoating, impregnation and doping. It has been shown that the surface of the precalcined steel sheets is covered mostly by -Al 2 O 3 although there are places where -Fe 2 O 3 and Fe 3 O 4 are also present. Washcoating of the precalcined sheets gives only partly uniform grain distribution of CeO 2 . Impregnation with cobalt leads to formation of uniform coverage of Co 3 O…