Critical phenomenon in the room-temperature ferromagnet Ce0.65Mg0.35Co3 prepared by high-pressure annealing

The use of cryo-techniques for the preparation of biological specimens in electron microscopy has led to superior preservation of ultrastructural detail. Although these techniques have obvious advantages, a critical limitation is that only 10-40 μm thick cells and tissue layers can be frozen without the formation of distorting ice crystals. However, thicker samples (600 μm) may be frozen well by rapid freezing under high-pressure (2,100 bar). To date, most work using cryo-techniques on fungi have been confined to examining small, thin-walled structures. High-pressure freezing and freeze substitution are used here to analysis pre-germination stages of specialized, sexual spores (teliospores) of the plant pathogenic fungus Gymnosporangium clavipes C & P.Dormant teliospores were incubated in drops of water at room temperature (25°C) to break dormancy and stimulate germination. Spores were collected at approximately 30 min intervals after hydration so that early cytological changes associated with spore germination could be monitored. Prior to high-pressure freezing, the samples were incubated for 5-10 min in a 20% dextran solution for added cryoprotection during freezing. Forty to 50 spores were placed in specimen cups and holders and immediately frozen at high pressure using the Balzers HPM 010 apparatus.

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Single Crystal Growth of High-Pressure Phases of Ice and Salt Hydrate Far Below the Original Melting Point by Mixing Alcohol: Crystal Structure Determination of Magnesium Chloride Heptahydrate

10.26434/chemrxiv.11345063.v2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Keishiro Yamashita ◽

Kazuki Komatsu ◽

Hiroyuki Kagi

Keyword(s):

Crystal Structure ◽

High Pressure ◽

Crystal Growth ◽

Single Crystal ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Growth Technique ◽

Salt Hydrate ◽

X Ray

An crystal-growth technique for single crystal x-ray structure analysis of high-pressure forms of hydrogen-bonded crystals is proposed. We used alcohol mixture (methanol: ethanol = 4:1 in volumetric ratio), which is a widely used pressure transmitting medium, inhibiting the nucleation and growth of unwanted crystals. In this paper, two kinds of single crystals which have not been obtained using a conventional experimental technique were obtained using this technique: ice VI at 1.99 GPa and MgCl<sub>2</sub>·7H<sub>2</sub>O at 2.50 GPa at room temperature. Here we first report the crystal structure of MgCl2·7H2O. This technique simultaneously meets the requirement of hydrostaticity for high-pressure experiments and has feasibility for further in-situ measurements.

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RMI 6Al-ELI

Alloy Digest ◽

10.31399/asm.ad.ti0089 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 37 (12) ◽

Keyword(s):

Fracture Toughness ◽

High Pressure ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Base Alloy ◽

Heat Treating ◽

Age Hardening ◽

Bend Strength ◽

Annealed Condition ◽

Room Temperature Yield Strength ◽

Alpha Beta

Abstract RMI 6A1-4V ELI is an alpha-beta type of titanium-base alloy that can be strengthened by age hardening. In the mill-annealed condition it has a guaranteed minimum room-temperature yield strength of 120,000 psi and can be increased to as much as 160,000 psi by solution treating and aging. This alloy may be used for high-pressure cryogenic vessels down to 320 F. This datasheet provides information on composition, physical properties, hardness, elasticity, tensile properties, and bend strength as well as fracture toughness. It also includes information on corrosion resistance as well as forming, heat treating, machining, joining, and surface treatment. Filing Code: Ti-89. Producer or source: RMI Company.

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High-Pressure Spectroscopy Study of Zn(IO3)2 Using Far-Infrared Synchrotron Radiation

Crystals ◽

10.3390/cryst11010034 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 34

Author(s):

Akun Liang ◽

Robin Turnbull ◽

Enrico Bandiello ◽

Ibraheem Yousef ◽

Catalin Popescu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

High Pressure ◽

Phase Transitions ◽

Synchrotron Radiation ◽

Infrared Radiation ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Far Infrared ◽

Low Pressure ◽

Pressure Response ◽

Spectroscopy Study ◽

Far Infrared Radiation

We report the first high-pressure spectroscopy study on Zn(IO3)2 using synchrotron far-infrared radiation. Spectroscopy was conducted up to pressures of 17 GPa at room temperature. Twenty-five phonons were identified below 600 cm−1 for the initial monoclinic low-pressure polymorph of Zn(IO3)2. The pressure response of the modes with wavenumbers above 150 cm−1 has been characterized, with modes exhibiting non-linear responses and frequency discontinuities that have been proposed to be related to the existence of phase transitions. Analysis of the high-pressure spectra acquired on compression indicates that Zn(IO3)2 undergoes subtle phase transitions around 3 and 8 GPa, followed by a more drastic transition around 13 GPa.

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Potential room-temperature multiferroicity in cupric oxide under high pressure

Physical Review B ◽

10.1103/physrevb.103.214432 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 103 (21) ◽

Author(s):

William Lafargue-Dit-Hauret ◽

Daniel Braithwaite ◽

Andrew D. Huxley ◽

Tsuyoshi Kimura ◽

Andres Saúl ◽

...

Keyword(s):

High Pressure ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Cupric Oxide

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Antibacterial activity of honey in preserving high-pressure cooked milkfish stored at room temperature

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1315/236/1/012079 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 236 ◽

pp. 012079

Author(s):

D A Hakim ◽

W Tjahjaningsih ◽

Sudarno

Keyword(s):

High Pressure ◽

Antibacterial Activity ◽

Room Temperature

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Critical behavior and magnetocaloric effect of the quasi-two-dimensional room-temperature ferromagnet Cr4Te5

Physical Review B ◽

10.1103/physrevb.101.214413 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 101 (21) ◽

Author(s):

Luo-Zhao Zhang ◽

An-Lei Zhang ◽

Xiu-De He ◽

Xin-Wei Ben ◽

Qi-Ling Xiao ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Magnetocaloric Effect ◽

Critical Behavior ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Two Dimensional

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GRAIN REFINEMENT AND MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION IN ALUMINUM A2618 ALLOY BY HIGH-PRESSURE TORSION

Jurnal Teknologi ◽

10.11113/jt.v78.9163 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 78 (6-9) ◽

Author(s):

Intan Fadhlina Mohamed ◽

Seungwon Lee ◽

Kaveh Edalati ◽

Zenji Horita ◽

Shahrum Abdullah ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Plastic Deformation ◽

High Pressure ◽

Grain Refinement ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Rotation Speed ◽

High Pressure Torsion ◽

Applied Pressure ◽

Saturation Level ◽

Microstructural Refinement ◽

Average Grain Size

This work presents a study related to the grain refinement of an aluminum A2618 alloy achieved by High-Pressure Torsion (HPT) known as a process of Severe Plastic Deformation (SPD). The HPT is conducted on disks of the alloy under an applied pressure of 6 GPa for 1 and 5 turns with a rotation speed of 1 rpm at room temperature. The HPT processing leads to microstructural refinement with an average grain size of ~250 nm at a saturation level after 5 turns. Gradual increases in hardness are observed from the beginning of straining up to a saturation level. This study thus suggests that hardening due to grain refinement is attained by the HPT processing of the A2618 alloy at room temperature.

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Hetero-Diels–Alder reactions of hetaryl and aryl thioketones with acetylenic dienophiles

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry ◽

10.3762/bjoc.11.63 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

pp. 576-582 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Grzegorz Mlostoń ◽

Paulina Grzelak ◽

Maciej Mikina ◽

Anthony Linden ◽

Heinz Heimgartner

Keyword(s):

High Pressure ◽

Room Temperature ◽

Thermal Conditions ◽

Alder Reaction ◽

Diels Alder ◽

Hydrogen Shift ◽

Diels Alder Reaction ◽

Shift Sequence

Selected hetaryl and aryl thioketones react with acetylenecarboxylates under thermal conditions in the presence of LiClO4 or, alternatively, under high-pressure conditions (5 kbar) at room temperature yielding thiopyran derivatives. The hetero-Diels–Alder reaction occurs in a chemo- and regioselective manner. The initially formed [4 + 2] cycloadducts rearrange via a 1,3-hydrogen shift sequence to give the final products. The latter were smoothly oxidized by treatment with mCPBA to the corresponding sulfones.

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