Spontaneous Oxidation Route to Se/Te Alloys Nanorods at Room Temperature

2011 ◽  
Vol 284-286 ◽  
pp. 680-683
Author(s):  
Rong Bo Zheng ◽  
Xue Lian Guo ◽  
Kang Zheng

The Se/Te alloys nanorods have been synthesized through spontaneous oxidation of NaHE (E = Se and Te) by dissolved oxygen at room temperature. Phase structures and morphologies of the Se/Te products are investigated by XRD, EDS, SEM, and TEM. The composition of Se/Te alloys could be tuned via simply changing the value of n (n denoted as molar ratio of the starting reagent Se to Te). In order to obtain pure Se/Tealloys nanorods, the value of n should be higher than 3. Otherwise, by-product t-Te would be formed. A possible nucleation and growth mechanism of the Se/Te nanorods was discussed.

2018 ◽  
Vol 913 ◽  
pp. 738-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Zhang ◽  
Xin Xing Zhou

The foaming and nucleation and growth mechanism of soybean oil-based polyurethane (SPU) were determined by the degree of hydrogen bonding, and isocyanate groups. New types of SPU were prepared by the different NCO/OH molar ratio (isocyanate index) from 1.0 to 2.0 in a soy polyol/polyether polyol (MDI) system. Foaming and nucleation and growth mechanisms of SPU were studied by fluorescence microscope (FM), scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy disperse spectroscopy (EDS) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). It indicated that the isocyanate index affected remarkably the velocity of foaming and the critical nucleation radius of SPU and the ester functional group increased with the increase of isocyanate index. The nucleation and growth phase transition were dominated by the diffusion controlled nucleation and isocyanate content was the key factor of foam formation.


2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Jovic

The processes of underpotential (UPD) and overpotential (OPD) deposition of Al onto Cu(111), from the room temperature molten salt AlCl3-EtMeImCl of different compositions, has been investigated by the cyclic volatmmetry (CV) and potentiostatic pulse techniques. It was shown that the CVs of the UPD are characterized by two sharp peaks, while the potentiostatic cathodic and anodic j-t-transients of this process are characterized by two waves indicating that the UPD of Al results in the formation of two structures. The first, less dense one, most probably the (?3x?3)R30? ordered structure of Al is formed at a more positive potential of about 200 mV vs. Al, while the second one, a complete momolayer of Al, is formed at about 20mV vs. Al, just before the reversible potential of Al in these melts (-20mV vs. Al). The OPD of Al was detected at potentials more negative than -30mV vs. Al, occurring through the progressive 3D nucleation and growth mechanism. Slow surface alloying of Al with Cu was found to occur at a potential close to the reversible potential of Al.


1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 795-801 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Jou ◽  
J. Washburn

A nucleation-and-growth mechanism for the twin formation in YBa2Cu3O7–δ superconductors based on the oxygen uptake rate curve and published transmission electron microscopic observations is proposed together with an oxygen-depleted twin boundary model. The difficulty of reaching stoichiometric YBa2Cu3O7 is explained.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 6776-6787

A Co-doped ZnO layer was prepared by electrodeposition method on indium doped tin oxide (ITO) substrate using a cathodic reduction from nitrate medium with different doping percentages of cobalt. The bath temperature was controlled at 70 °C. The films were cathodically electrodeposited in a bath containing 5 mM Zn(NO3)2. 6H2O, while the source of Co is Co(NO3)2.6H2O where 0.1M KNO3 was used as supporting electrolyte. The nucleation and growth mechanism of Co-doped ZnO nuclei have been studied by cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry. The cyclic voltammetry shows that the electrodeposition of ZnO and Co-doped ZnO at a negative potential around -1.0 V versus saturated calomel electrode (SCE) is a quasi-reversible reaction controlled by the diffusion process. Comparing current transients curves obtained by the chronoamperometric method with the theoretical curves of current density j versus t ½ allows us to say that the nucleation is 3D instantaneous, as shown in SEM analysis. The presence of Co does not modify the nucleation and growth mechanism. The XRD patterns show that the substitution of zinc by cobalt does not change the würtzite crystal structure, but the crystallite size decreases with the cobalt percentage. The transmittance spectra indicate that the Co-doped ZnO films are transparent in the visible range. The optical gap increases with the doping percentage of cobalt.


2012 ◽  
Vol 134 (9) ◽  
pp. 4384-4392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galyna Krylova ◽  
Lisandro J. Giovanetti ◽  
Felix G. Requejo ◽  
Nada M. Dimitrijevic ◽  
Alesia Prakapenka ◽  
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