Microstructure and property evaluation of high-pressure die-cast Mg–La–rare earth (Nd, Y or Gd) alloys

2014 ◽  
Vol 597 ◽  
pp. 21-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Gavras ◽  
Mark A. Easton ◽  
Mark A. Gibson ◽  
Suming Zhu ◽  
Jian-Feng Nie
2010 ◽  
Vol 654-656 ◽  
pp. 683-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Easton ◽  
Katharina Strobel ◽  
Su Ming Zhu ◽  
Mark A. Gibson ◽  
Jian Feng Nie

The impact properties of high-pressure die cast Mg-RE alloys were investigated. It was found that, for rare earth contents between 2-4 wt.%, the Mg-La and Mg-Nd alloys performed better than the Mg-Ce alloys in un-notched tests. The notched results appear to be related to the amount of intermetallic. In contrast, the un-notched results indicate that at some compositions the Mg-La alloys out-performed the other alloys when compared to the amount of intermetallic. It was apparent that a lamellar eutectic structure can improve the un-notched impact properties of Mg-RE based alloys even when this is not evidenced in tensile test or notched impact results.


Coatings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 724
Author(s):  
Sara Massardo ◽  
Alessandro Cingolani ◽  
Cristina Artini

Rare earth-doped ceria thin films are currently thoroughly studied to be used in miniaturized solid oxide cells, memristive devices and gas sensors. The employment in such different application fields derives from the most remarkable property of this material, namely ionic conductivity, occurring through the mobility of oxygen ions above a certain threshold temperature. This feature is in turn limited by the association of defects, which hinders the movement of ions through the lattice. In addition to these issues, ionic conductivity in thin films is dominated by the presence of the film/substrate interface, where a strain can arise as a consequence of lattice mismatch. A tensile strain, in particular, when not released through the occurrence of dislocations, enhances ionic conduction through the reduction of activation energy. Within this complex framework, high pressure X-ray diffraction investigations performed on the bulk material are of great help in estimating the bulk modulus of the material, and hence its compressibility, namely its tolerance toward the application of a compressive/tensile stress. In this review, an overview is given about the correlation between structure and transport properties in rare earth-doped ceria films, and the role of high pressure X-ray diffraction studies in the selection of the most proper compositions for the design of thin films.


2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Zoller ◽  
Hubert Huppertz

AbstractThe rare earth oxoborates REB5O8(OH)2 (RE = Ho, Er, Tm) were synthesized in a Walker-type multianvil apparatus at a pressure of 2.5 GPa and a temperature of 673 K. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction data provided the basis for the structure solution and refinement. The compounds crystallize in the monoclinic space group C2 (no. 5) and are composed of a layer-like structure containing dreier and sechser rings of corner sharing [BO4]5− tetrahedra. The rare earth metal cations are coordinated between two adjacent sechser rings. Further characterization was performed utilizing IR spectroscopy.


1981 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. W. Chu ◽  
S. Z. Huang ◽  
C. H. Lin ◽  
R. L. Meng ◽  
M. K. Wu ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (11) ◽  
pp. 1198-1206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst Hinteregger ◽  
Michael Enders ◽  
Almut Pitscheider ◽  
Klaus Wurst ◽  
Gunter Heymann ◽  
...  

The new rare-earth fluoride borates RE2(BO3)F3 (RE=Tb, Dy, Ho) were synthesized under highpressure/ high-temperature conditions of 1:5 GPa=1200 °C for Tb2(BO3)F3 and 3:0 GPa=900 °C for Dy2(BO3)F3 and Ho2(BO3)F3 in a Walker-type multianvil apparatus from the corresponding rareearth sesquioxides, rare-earth fluorides, and boron oxide. The single-crystal structure determinations revealed that the new compounds are isotypic to the known rare-earth fluoride borate Gd2(BO3)F3. The new rare-earth fluoride borates crystallize in the monoclinic space group P21/c (Z = 8) with the lattice parameters a=16:296(3), b=6:197(2), c=8:338(2) Å , b =93:58(3)° for Tb2(BO3)F3, a= 16:225(3), b = 6:160(2), c = 8:307(2) Å , b = 93:64(3)° for Dy2(BO3)F3, and a = 16:189(3), b = 6:124(2), c = 8:282(2) Å , β= 93:69(3)° for Ho2(BO3)F3. The four crystallographically different rare-earth cations (CN=9) are surrounded by oxygen and fluoride anions. All boron atoms form isolated trigonal-planar [BO3]3- groups. The six crystallographically different fluoride anions are in a nearly planar coordination by three rare-earth cations.


2016 ◽  
Vol 675 ◽  
pp. 65-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gavras ◽  
S.M. Zhu ◽  
J.F. Nie ◽  
M.A. Gibson ◽  
M.A. Easton

1975 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 2705-2706 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Boekema ◽  
F. van der Woude ◽  
G. A. Sawatzky

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