One of the fabrication methods for functionally graded materials (FGMs) is a centrifugal solid-particle method, which is an application of the centrifugal casting technique. However, it is the difficult to fabricate FGMs containing nano-particles by the centrifugal solid-particle method. Recently, we proposed a novel fabrication method, which we have named the centrifugal mixed-powder method, b...

We have performed high resolution photoemission study of substitutionally disordered alloys Cu-Pt, Cu-Pd, Cu-Ni, and Pd-Pt. The ratios between alloy spectra and pure metal spectra are found to have dips at the Fermi level when the residual resistivity is high and when rather strong repulsive electronelectron interaction is expected. This is in accordance with Altshuler and Aronov’s model which ...

Three-dimensional Pd polyhedron networks (Pd PNs) have been fabricated for the first time through a one-step, Cu(2+)-assisted, solution-chemical approach. These as-prepared 3D Pd PNs exhibit high stability and remarkably improved electrocatalytic activity toward formic acid oxidation over commercially available Pd black.

We have developed a new class of lanthanide nano-clusters that self-assemble using flexible Schiff base ligands. Cd–Ln and Ni–Ln clusters, [Ln8Cd24(L )12(OAc)39Cl7(OH)2] (Ln 1⁄4 Nd, Eu), [Eu8Cd24(L)12(OAc)44], [Ln8Cd24(L)12(OAc)44] (Ln 1⁄4 Nd, Yb, Sm) and [Nd2Ni4(L )2(acac)6(NO3)2(OH)2], were constructed using different types of flexible Schiff base ligands. These molecular nano-clusters exhibi...

We identified a Cu-accumulating structure with a dynamic role in intracellular Cu homeostasis. During Zn limitation, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii hyperaccumulates Cu, a process dependent on the nutritional Cu sensor CRR1, but it is functionally Cu deficient. Visualization of intracellular Cu revealed major Cu accumulation sites coincident with electron-dense structures that stained positive for lo...

Nano-copper(0) stabilized on alumina prepared from Cu-Al hydrotalcite has been reported for completely regioselective synthesis of 2,4-disubstituted pyrroles from unactivated terminal aromatic/aliphatic alkynes and isocyanides. The reaction is operationally simple, involves ligand-free inexpensive nano-copper, and affords products in high yields.

Aims: The aims of this study was designed to analyze the released ions from Ag-Pd-Cu-Au alloys after a new sliding solubility test in different solutions with or without mucin. Materials and methods: Eluate solutions, similar to Fusayama’s artificial saliva, Hanks buffer solution, and artificial saliva with or without mucin were prepared. Ag-Pd-Cu-Au casting alloys were selected by particularly...

As an aid to the development of hydrogen separation membranes, we predict the temperature dependent phase diagrams using first principles calculations combined with thermodynamic principles. Our method models the phase diagram without empirical fitting parameters. By applying thermodynamic principles and solid solution models, temperature-dependent features of the Cu-Pd-S system can be explaine...

The effects of lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6) nano-particles on the electrical, thermal, and mechanical properties copper-based nanocomposites (Cu-LaB6) produced using microwave sintering (MS) spark plasma (SPS) processes were investigated in this study. Nano LaB6 particles reduced electrical conductivity Cu matrix via MS SPS by 20% 13%, respectively. Cu-LaB6 had lower thermal than unreinforced Cu...