The thermochemlcal stablllty of fast oxygen ion conductlng yttria stabillzed blsmuthoxlde (YSB) r solld solutlons containing 22.0 32.5 mol% of yttrla was investigated. It was shown that In the temperature range between 650 740 C the stabilized cublc ~ -phase contalnlng less than 31.8 mol% of yttrla ls not stable durlng long term annealing treatments (>~500 hours). During annealing at 650 C a sl...

a r t i c l e i n f o Using first-principles calculations, we have carried out a systematic comparative study of the microscopic atomic defect configurations in cubic and tetragonal yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) and their correlation with the macroscopic lattice parameters and relative phase stability, as a function of Y concentration. We found that Y atoms sit at the second-nearest-neighbor...

Er-doped BiVO4 are synthesized by means of a surfactant free microwave assisted hydrothermal method having good photoactivities under sun-like excitation for the degradation of methylene blue. From the structural and morphological characterization, it has been stated that the presence of Er(3+) induces a slight stabilization of the tetragonal phase, probably due to its incorporation in the BiVO...

An explanation has been proposed for the unusual behaviour of the asymmetry parameter of NQR spectra of Cu(2) in layered cuprates. When holes are introduced into the plane, Zhang-Rice singlets (ZRS) appear which have a strong vibronic coupling to tetragonal and orthorhombic modes. The equation for the adiabatic potential has been derived. It is shown that its minimum, correspond­ ing to orthorh...

   Physical study of nano ribbon, tetragonal bundled and isolated nano tube SiC (7,0) are part of our project in knowing new nano material such a silicon carbide. These studies have been performed by density function theory. Effect of ribboning, tubulating and tetragonal bundling on the physical properties such as stability, structural constants, optical physics, chemical parameters and mag...