X-ray investigation of the α-α' phase transition of hydrogen in Pd1-xAgxalloys

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1897-1906 ◽  
Author(s):  
W Fenzl ◽  
H Zabel ◽  
H Peisl
Keyword(s):  
X Ray ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Askarpour ◽  
H. Klefte ◽  
M. J. Clouter

The technique of high resolution Brillouin spectroscopy has been used to determine the adiabatic elastic constants of single crystals of β-N2 and β-CO as a function of temperature, in an effort to study the α–β phase transition. For all elastic constants, there is an increase of approximately 1%/K on cooling and there is no evidence of further mode softening, even within 0.5 K of the phase transition. Three large single crystals of α-CO were grown. The orientations were determined, by Laue X-ray diffraction, and correlated to the orientations of the parent β-crystals. The β-phase hexagonal basal planes appear to transform to planes of the form {110} in the α-phase cubic structure.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1070-1072 ◽  
pp. 589-593
Author(s):  
Fei Peng Wang ◽  
Zheng Yong Huang ◽  
Jian Li

Commercial poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) films are uniaxially stretched with varying rates at 110 °C in order to endow PVDF piezo-and pyroelectric by crystalline-phase transition from α to β during the stretching. The crystalline phases are determined by infrared spectroscopy. The β-phase content and its fraction in films increase as a result of stretching with high rates. In addition, higher stretching rates yield a slight increase of γ phase. The crystallite size is evaluated by means of X-ray diffraction. It is found that the β-phase crystallites become smaller with fast stretching, whereas the α-phase crystallites are cracked and disappear at high-speed stretching of 2.5 /min.


2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahram G. Pakdehi ◽  
Maryam Rasoolzadeh ◽  
Ali Saberi Moghadam

Abstract This research concentrated on the structural stability of γ-alumina (γ-Al2O3) was investigated by a combination of differential thermal analysis, X-ray diffractometry and surface-area measurements. The γ –to– θ and then α phase transitions were observed as an exothermic peak at 1000°C–1400°C in the DTA curves. The role of barium oxide as a modifier to stabilize γ-Al2O3 structure has been investigated. XRD measurements show that after calcination at 1000°C for 2 h, a significant fraction of the pure γ-Al2O3 (BaO-free) transformed to θ-Al2O3 while that the transition phase in alumina samples modified by BaO have been reduced significantly. Barium oxide, eliminate pentacoordinated aluminum ions through coordinative saturation and alter these ions into octahedral cations and effectively suppressed the γ –to– α phase transition in Al2O3, which concluded as improving the thermal stability and porous properties of the experimental samples.


2002 ◽  
Vol 58 (6) ◽  
pp. 1005-1010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renée Enjalbert ◽  
Jean Galy

The phase transition from the low- (β) to the high-temperature (α) form of acetonitrile, CH3CN, has been directly observed and studied on a unique single crystal. Both the β and α structures have been determined at temperatures close to the transition temperature (206 K and 201 K), taking advantage of the hysteresis. A single crystal of the β form was obtained for the first time.


2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. L. Constantino ◽  
A. E. Job ◽  
R. D. Simões ◽  
J. A. Giacometti ◽  
V. Zucolotto ◽  
...  

The phase transition from the non-polar α-phase to the polar β-phase of poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) has been investigated using micro-Raman spectroscopy, which is advantageous because it is a nondestructive technique. Films of α-PVDF were subjected to stretching under controlled rates at 80 °C, while the transition to β-PVDF was monitored by the decrease in the Raman band at 794 cm−1 characteristic of the α-phase, along with the concomitant increase in the 839 cm−1 band characteristic of the β-phase. The α→β transition in our PVDF samples could be achieved even for the sample stretched to twice (2×-stretched) the initial length and it did not depend on the stretching rate in the range between 2.0 and 7.0 mm/min. These conclusions were corroborated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction experiments for PVDF samples processed under the same conditions as in the Raman scattering measurements. Poling with negative corona discharge was found to affect the α-PVDF morphology, improving the Raman bands related to this crystalline phase. This effect is minimized for films stretched to higher ratios. Significantly, corona-induced effects could not be observed with the other experimental techniques, i.e., X-ray diffraction and infrared spectroscopy.


Metals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Panpan Ge ◽  
Song Xiang ◽  
Yuanbiao Tan ◽  
Xuanming Ji

The β → α phase transition kinetics of the Ti–3.5Al–5Mo–4V alloy with two different grain sizes was investigated at the isothermal temperature of 500 °C. A method to estimate the function of the precipitate fraction of the α phase with different aging times was developed based on X-ray diffraction analysis. The value of the α precipitate fraction increased sharply at first, then increased slowly with the aging time, and finally reached equilibrium. The value of the α precipitate fraction was higher in the alloy aged for the same time at a higher solution temperature, while the size of the α precipitate was smaller at a higher solution temperature. The β → α phase transition kinetics under isothermal conditions were modeled in the theoretical frame of the Johnson–Mehl–Avrami–Kolmogorov (JMAK) theory. The kinetic parameters of JMAK deduced different transformation mechanisms. The mechanism of the phase transition in the first stage was dominated by mixed transformation mechanisms (homogeneously nucleated and acicular-grown α structure, and grain boundary-nucleated and grown α precipitate), while the second stage was the growth of the fine α precipitate, which was controlled by slow diffusion. As the aging time increased, the hardness of the Ti–3.5Al–5Mo–4V alloy increased sharply. After the hardness of the alloy reached a plateau, it began to decline. The hardness of the alloy was always higher at a higher solution temperature.


Author(s):  
Naoki Yamamoto ◽  
Makoto Kikuchi ◽  
Tooru Atake ◽  
Akihiro Hamano ◽  
Yasutoshi Saito

BaZnGeO4 undergoes many phase transitions from I to V phase. The highest temperature phase I has a BaAl2O4 type structure with a hexagonal lattice. Recent X-ray diffraction study showed that the incommensurate (IC) lattice modulation appears along the c axis in the III and IV phases with a period of about 4c, and a commensurate (C) phase with a modulated period of 4c exists between the III and IV phases in the narrow temperature region (—58°C to —47°C on cooling), called the III' phase. The modulations in the IC phases are considered displacive type, but the detailed structures have not been studied. It is also not clear whether the modulation changes into periodic arrays of discommensurations (DC’s) near the III-III' and IV-V phase transition temperature as found in the ferroelectric materials such as Rb2ZnCl4.At room temperature (III phase) satellite reflections were seen around the fundamental reflections in a diffraction pattern (Fig.1) and they aligned along a certain direction deviated from the c* direction, which indicates that the modulation wave vector q tilts from the c* axis. The tilt angle is about 2 degree at room temperature and depends on temperature.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 2060018
Author(s):  
E. M. Bayan ◽  
T. G. Lupeiko ◽  
L. E. Pustovaya ◽  
M. G. Volkova

Sn-doped TiO2 nanomaterials were synthesized by sol–gel method. It was shown the phase compositions and phase transitions change with the introduction of different tin amounts (0.5–20[Formula: see text]mol.%). X-ray powder diffraction was used to study the effect of different tin amounts on the anatase–rutile phase transition. It was found that the introduction of ions increases the thermal stability of anatase modifications. The material’s photocatalytic activity was studied in reaction with a model pollutant (methylene blue) photodegradation under UV and visible light activation. The best photocatalytic properties were shown for material, which contains 5[Formula: see text]mol.% of Sn.


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