Mechanical Properties and Ordered Structure of Bacterial Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate-Co-3-Hydroxyhexanoate) Fibers Stretched after Isothermal Crystallization near Tg

2011 ◽  
Vol 284-286 ◽  
pp. 1774-1777 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Kun Ding ◽  
Bo Wen Cheng ◽  
Qiong Wu

Biodegradable fibers of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBHHx) were prepared by melt spinning, followed by one-step-drawing with small crystal nuclei grown after isothermal crystallization near the glass transition temperature (Tg) and annealing at room temperature under tension. This new drawing technique is a very attractive method for obtaining flexible fibers from low-molecular-weight biopolyesters produced by recombinant bacteria. The ordered structure of PHBHHx fibers was investigated by tensile measurement, scanning electron microscopy, and wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD). The tensile strength of 10 times one-step-drawn fiber after isothermal crystallization increased to 100 MPa. The WAXD profiles of PHBHHx fibers showed sharp reflections corresponding to highly oriented α-form (21helix conformation) crystal.

2004 ◽  
Vol 449-452 ◽  
pp. 1093-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tae Hyun Nam ◽  
Jae Hwa Lee ◽  
Tae Yeon Kim ◽  
Yeon Wook Kim

Transformation behaviors and shape memory characteristics of Ti-45Ni-5Cu alloy ribbons fabricated by melt spinning were investigated by means of optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetries(DSC), X-ray diffraction and thermal cycling tests under constant load. They depended largely on temperatures of liquid metal. The B2-B19-B19’ two-step transformation occurred in the ribbons fabricated with the liquid whose temperature was higher than 1723 K, while the B2-B19’ one-step transformation occurred in the ribbons with the liquid at 1673 K. The stabilization of the B19 martensite in Ti-45Ni-5Cu alloy ribbons was ascribed to the high density of dislocations which made strong resistance to large lattice deformation associated with a formation of the B19’ martensite.


2012 ◽  
Vol 550-553 ◽  
pp. 2024-2028
Author(s):  
Jian Jun Shi ◽  
Sheng Wang ◽  
Ting Ting He ◽  
Dao Yuan Zhou

Tin dioxide nanoparticles were directly one-step recovered from electronic wastes using ultrasonic-assisted electrochemical method. The products were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), which indicated that the average size of tetragonal SnO2 is 100 nm. The experiment parameters, such as the concentration of electrolyte, electrolysis current, reaction time and electrode distance, were also discussed. The proposed method is high energy efficient, non-toxic and environment-friendly, and suitable for the recovering of electronic wastes under the controllable reaction condition at room temperature.


2017 ◽  
Vol 88 (10) ◽  
pp. 1112-1124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lele Sun ◽  
Changfa Xiao ◽  
Jian Zhao ◽  
Shulin An ◽  
Shichao Zhang

Ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) fibers were fabricated by a single-screw melt spinning machine at different drawing roll speed ratios and different drawing roll temperatures. Thermogravimetric analyzer, differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction (XRD), digital fiber sound velocimeter and single fiber strength testers were used to discuss the impacts of spinning processes on the structure and performance of ETFE fibers. The results indicated that four different fibers showed a similar melting temperature at around 257℃. XRD results revealed that the largest crystallinity of four ETFE fibers was 41.1%. As the drawing temperature increased, the crystallinity of ETFE fibers decreased and the grain size increased. The breaking strength of four as-spun ETFE fibers reached up to 1.12 cN/dtex. The minimum shrinkage of ETFE fibers at 200℃ was 7%, and it was only 1% at most below 150℃. The maximum creep strain of ETFE fibers was 6% when the loading capacity was 20% of the breaking strength at room temperature and ETFE fibers had a high recovery ratio of >90% after the load was removed. Moreover, ETFE fibers showed exceptional corrosion resistance and good performance of irradiation resistance.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Rodríguez ◽  
Elio Rico ◽  
Cesar Sierra ◽  
Oscar Rodríguez

Two Covalent Organic Frameworks (COF), named TFP-BZ and TFP-DMBZ, were synthesized using the imine condensation between 1,3,5-triformylphloroglucinol (TFP) with benzidine (BZ) or 3,3-dimethylbenzidine (DMBZ). These materials were deposited, such as films over interdigitated electrodes (IDE), by chemical bath deposition, giving rise to TFP-BZ-IDE and TFP-DMBZ-IDE systems. The synthesized COFs powders were characterized by Powder X-Ray Diffraction (PXRD), Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (ssNMR), nitrogen adsorption isotherms, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and Raman spectroscopy, while the films were characterized by SEM and Raman. Ammonia and low molecular weight amine sensing were developed with the COF film systems using the impedance electrochemical spectroscopy (EIS). Results showed that the systems TFP-BZ-IDE and TFP-DMBZ-IDE detect low molecular weight amines selectively by impedimetric analysis. Remarkably, with no significant interference by other atmospheric gas compounds such as nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and methane. Additionally, both COF films presented a range of sensitivity at low amine concentrations below two ppm at room temperature.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 2034
Author(s):  
Ghadah M. Al-Senani ◽  
Omar H. Abd-Elkader ◽  
Nasrallah M. Deraz

The preparation of copper manganite (hopcalite, Cu1.5Mn1.5O4), as a single phase, was achieved by using a sustainable method of green synthesis. This method is based on the replacement of the conventional “brute force” ceramic preparation by the recent “soft force” green synthesis via the egg white assisted one-step method. In other words, we present a facile and rapid methodology to prepare the nanocrystalline Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 spinel as a single phase, compared to our previous work using ceramic and glycine-assisted combustion methods. The as-synthesized copper manganite was characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR), energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), and scanning electron microscope (SEM). We used a vibrating sample magnetometer to determine the magnetic properties of the prepared sample (VSM). XRD, FTIR, SEM, EDS and transmittance electron micrograph (TEM) resulted in synthesis of a successful cubic spinel Cu1.5Mn1.5O4 system with a sponge crystal structure. The particles of the prepared materials are polycrystalline in their nature and the sizes ranged between 50 and 100 nm. The magnetic measurement demonstrated that the generated nanostructure has been found to exhibit ferromagnetism at room temperature with an optimum saturation magnetization value (0.2944 emu/g).


2013 ◽  
Vol 738-739 ◽  
pp. 431-435
Author(s):  
Yoichi Kishi ◽  
Takeshi Kubota ◽  
Zenjiro Yajima ◽  
Teiko Okazaki ◽  
Yasubumi Furuya ◽  
...  

Microstructures of the Fe-29.6at%Pd alloy ribbons were observed with an X-ray diffractometer and a transmission electron microscope. The X-ray diffraction profiles at room temperature showed that the ribbon consists of FCT martensitic phase and FCC parent phase. Moreover, the ribbon exhibits a strongly 200-oriented texture analyzing with pole figure measurements. TEM bright field images for the cross section of the ribbon showed high-density striation in the FCT martensite variants. Twin-related two sets of reflections were observed in the SAED patterns taken of the FCT martensite variants. FCT was nearly parallel to the thickness direction according to the analysis of the SAED patterns. This result corresponds to the pole figure measurements.


1998 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. B. Pinheiro ◽  
A. Jório ◽  
M. A. Pimenta ◽  
N. L. Speziali

X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy experiments have been used to investigate different phases of Cs2HgBr4, dicesium mercury tetrabromide, from room temperature to 213 K. Structural analyses have shown that the crystal could be described, in the normal and in the incommensurate phases, both by ordered and disordered models, but the latter gave more consistent results. Raman results corroborate the descriptions based on X-ray analysis; the presence of an extra peak, which according to group theory should be forbidden in an ordered structure, indicates the lack of local symmetry and was associated with an orientational disorder of [HgBr4]2− tetrahedra. In the transition from the incommensurate to the commensurate phase a multi-soliton behavior was observed. The Cs2HgBr4 crystal in the low-temperature commensurate phase is composed of two types of ordered pseudomerohedral twinned domains.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenyan Guo ◽  
Haitong Ma ◽  
Qingtong Zhang ◽  
Mingfu Li ◽  
Hongrui Jiang ◽  
...  

MnO2-deposited lignin-based carbon fiber (MnO2-LCF) mats are fabricated for supercapacitor applications. LCF mats are produced from alkali lignin via electrospinning followed by stabilization and carbonization. The carbonization process is carried out at 800, 900, and 1000 °C, and the corresponding mats are denoted as MnO2-LCF-800, MnO2-LCF-900, and MnO2-LCF-1000, respectively. The LCF mats are immersed in a KMnO4 solution at room temperature for 72 h to obtain MnO2-LCF mats. The scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis confirm the deposition of MnO2 on the LCFs. The Brunauer–Emmett–Teller analysis, X-ray spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy reveal that MnO2-LCF-800 mat possesses a large number of mesopores and Mn vacancies as compared to MnO2-LCF-900 mat and MnO2-LCF-1000 mat. Consequently, MnO2-LCF-800 mat possesses the best electrochemical properties with a specific capacitance of 131.28 F∙g−1, an energy density of 14.77 Wh∙kg−1, and a power density of 135.01 W∙kg−1 at a specific current of 0.3 A∙g−1. Hence, MnO2-LCF-800 mat shows high potential to be used as a high-performance supercapacitor.


Author(s):  
C. Wolpers ◽  
R. Blaschke

Scanning microscopy was used to study the surface of human gallstones and the surface of fractures. The specimens were obtained by operation, washed with water, dried at room temperature and shadowcasted with carbon and aluminum. Most of the specimens belong to patients from a series of X-ray follow-up study, examined during the last twenty years. So it was possible to evaluate approximately the age of these gallstones and to get information on the intensity of growing and solving.Cholesterol, a group of bile pigment substances and different salts of calcium, are the main components of human gallstones. By X-ray diffraction technique, infra-red spectroscopy and by chemical analysis it was demonstrated that all three components can be found in any gallstone. In the presence of water cholesterol crystallizes in pane-like plates of the triclinic crystal system.


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.


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