Local Chemical Reactivity of a Metal Alloy Surface

Local Chemical Reactivity of a Metal Alloy Surface.

Enhancing surface reactivity with a noble metal.

Gold, the archetypal noble metal, is usually associated with an inhibition of surface reactivity by site blocking. In this paper however, we show that on Cu(100) surfaces a gold adlayer can actually increase the extent of reaction with the substrate.

Effect of surface passivation on corrosion of a cobalt-chromium dental alloy: surface morphology and chemical composition studies

Abstract   Background and Aim: Biocompatibility in some respects depends on the corrosion behavior of dental alloys. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of surface passivation of a cobalt chromium alloy on corrosion behavior. Materials and methods: In this experimental study, 20 samples of Flexicast dental alloy were prepared according to ADA97 standard and after casting, t...

Tailoring the reactivity of bimetallic overlayer and surface alloy systems.

Changing the composition and structure of a bimetallic surface system modifies its electronic properties and thus its catalytic activity. On the basis of density functional theory calculations, the electronic factors underlying the modified properties of bimetallic surfaces such as overlayer systems and, in particular, surface alloys will be discussed. It will be demonstrated that by mixing two...

Synthetic development and chemical reactivity of transition-metal silylene complexes.

A variety of transition-metal complexes with terminal silylene ligands have become available in recent years, because of the discovery of several preparative methods. In particular, three general synthetic routes to these complexes have emerged, on the basis of anionic group abstraction, coordination of a free silylene, and alpha-hydrogen migration. The direct transformation of organosilanes to...