Recently, the Al2O3–TiO2–ZrO2 system has found valuable applications, particularly, as a support for NOx storage–reduction (NSR) catalysts. Nanocomposite powders were prepared from the co-precipitation method in inorganic precursors. The behaviors of mixed oxide nanoparticles under ultrasonic irradiation, such as dispersion, and crushing were studied. Phase transformations, crystallite size, an...

Nanostructured Cu-20Fe alloy was synthesized by mechanical alloying process and the effects of process control agents (PCA) on the phase formation, crystallite refinement and morphology of powder particles were studied. The dissolution of Fe into Cu matrix and the morphology of powder particles were analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) technique and scanning electron microscopy (SEM), respective...

Graphite crystallizes in both hexagonal (2H) and rhombohedral (3R) systems. It is known that the 3R modification in graphite occurs locally by grinding of 2H crystal, and disappears by annealing at high temperature or decomposition of its intercalation compounds [Boehm 1955]. It was reported that the 3R phase content in artificial graphite, which was estimated from the integrated intensities of...

Yuri L. Zuev,1 Eliot D. Specht,1 Claudia Cantoni,1 David K. Christen,1 James R. Thompson,1,2 Rongying Jin,1 Athena S. Sefat,1 David G. Mandrus,1 Michael A. McGuire,1 and Brian C. Sales1 1Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA 2Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200, USA Received 1 May 200...

We report strong magnetism in pure carbon films grown by electron irradiation assisted physical vapor deposition in electron cyclotron resonance plasma. The development of graphene nanocrystallites in the amorphous film matrix, and the dependence of the magnetic behavior on amorphous, nanocrystallite and graphite-like structures were investigated. Results were that the amorphous structure shows...

The microstructure of gold catalysts supported on rutile was obtained by Rietveld refinement. Three-dimensional images of the crystallites were generated in real space, as well as 3-D images of the microstrain distribution in reciprocal space. These images were used to analyze the effect of the different parameters of the refinement models on the interpretation of the microstructure of the samp...

A means for obtaining broadband photophoretic spectra is described. The sensitivity of the technique is found in accordance with radiometric theory to increase markedly with pressure reduction below 1 atm. Noise oscillation induced by radiometric torques is contained through the use of electronic damping. The first broadband spectrum on a single crystallite (approximtely 5 microm) of CdS is pre...

The synthesis of nano-sized particles of NU-1000 (length from 75 nm to 1200 nm) and PCN-222/MOF-545 (length from 350 nm to 900 nm) is reported. The catalytic hydrolysis of methyl paraoxon was investigated as a function of NU-1000 crystallite size and a significant enhancement in the rate was observed for the nano-sized crystals compared to microcrystals.

An iron titanate catalyst with a crystallite phase, prepared by a co-precipitation method, showed excellent activity, stability, selectivity and SO(2)/H(2)O durability in the selective catalytic reduction of NO with NH(3) in the medium temperature range.