SiOC films prepared by the capacitively coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition were analyzed by Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy, nanoindentation, capacitance and Xray diffraction patterns to observe the crystallinity and chemical shift of SiOC. The capacitance decreased after annealing process, and the dielectric constant was also decreased by annealing due to the reduction of polariz...

Potato Micropropagation Medium (PMM) is the growth medium used for in vitro micropropagation of potato tubers. The present study was intended to assess the effect of biofield energy treatment on the physical, thermal and spectroscopic properties of PMM. The study was attained in two groups i.e. control and treated. The control group was remained as untreated, while the treated group was receive...

The compound lead oxide sulfate PbSO4.PbO was prepared in our laboratory. The Thermal behavior of PbSO4 was studied using techniques of Thermogravimetry under air atmosphere from 25 to 1200 ̊C. The identity of both compounds was confirmed by XRD technique. Results obtained using both techniques support same decomposition stages for this compound. The electron microscopic investigations are made ...

This paper investigated thermal properties of natural thaumasite, such as phase composition and reaction mechanism decomposition using simultaneous TG/DTG-DSC in Ar Air medium up to 1673 K, coupled with masspectrometer for analysis evolving gases, in-situ powder X-ray diffraction measurements. The transitional solid phases, grown increasing temperature at thaumasite decomposition, are calcium h...

Sintered samples of monoclinic zirconia (α-ZrO2) have been irradiated at room temperature with 6.0-GeV Pb ions in the electronic slowing down regime. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and micro-Raman spectroscopy measurements showed unambiguously that a transition to the ‘metastable’ tetragonal phase (β-ZrO2) occurred at a fluence of 6.5x10 cm for a large electronic stopping power value (≈ 32.5 MeV μm). ...

The quantitative Rietveld analyses of twenty samples of CAC from four different manufacturers over the world, one synthetic mixture and a NIST standard were performed using synchrotron radiation. As compared with conventional XRD, synchrotron powder diffraction permitted to find new minor phases, improve the characterization of solid solutions of iron rich CAC phases and reduce preferential ori...