The two-dimensional self-assembly of a terbium(III) double-decker phthalocyanine on highly oriented pyrolitic graphite (HOPG) was studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM), and it was shown that it forms highly regular rectangular two-dimensional nanocrystals on the surface, that are aligned with the graphite symmetry axes, in which the molecules are organized in a rectangular lattice as shown b...

Tetraalkylammonium salts have larger ions than metal ions, which can greatly change the interlayer space and energy, and then potentially tune the properties of graphite. In this work, various graphite intercalation compounds (GICs) have been synthesized by intercalating tetraoctylammonium bromide (TOAB) ions into graphite through electrochemical interactions under different reduction potential...

Absorbed dose to water in a cobalt-60 gamma-ray beam has been determined using a thick-walled graphite ionization chamber. The chamber was calibrated in a graphite phantom against a graphite calorimeter, and the graphite calibration factor was converted to a water calibration factor using published energy absorption coefficient ratios and a measured replacement factor. Comparisons between the g...

Graphite-bearing polycrystalline olivine and polycrystalline clinopyroxene with submicron to micron grain size were successfully sintered from a single crystal of naturally occurring olivine (Fo88–92Fa12–8: Mg1.76–1.84Fe0.16–0.24SiO4) and a single crystal of naturally occurring clinopyroxene (Di99Hed1: Ca0.92Na0.07Mn0.01Mg0.93Fe0.01Al0.06Si2O6). The milled powders of both these crystals were si...

This study aimed to develop a contamination-free porous titanium scaffold by a plasma-activated sintering within an originally developed TiN-coated graphite mold. The surface of porous titanium sheet with or without a coated graphite mold was characterized. The cell adhesion property of porous titanium sheet was also evaluated in this study. The peak of TiC was detected on the titanium sheet pr...

In this paper we investigate the tribological properties of AlSn-based alloy with different amount of graphite at different normal loads and sliding speed. A modified impeller mixing coupled with chill casting technique was used for the preparation of immiscible alloys. In this paper Al-Sn binary alloys was chosen for this study. This binary system shows the miscibility gap at different concent...

Intermolecular interactions involving aromatic rings are of pivotal importance in many areas of chemistry, biology and materials science. Mimicking recent atomic force microscopy (AFM) experiments that measured the adhesion forces of single pi-pi complexes, here interactions between pyrene/coronene and graphite have been probed by force-probe molecular dynamics (FPMD) simulations. The pyrene or...

Compacted graphite cast iron is a material that again comes forward of the interest of designers and foundries acquiring or improving manufacture of castings from that material. From many publications let us quote three of them from last year 1, 2, 3 . According to the European standard ISO 16 112 this material is called „compacted (vermicular) graphite cast iron“ (the abbreviation CGI that wil...

A novel approach for suppressing the solvated lithium intercalation in graphite was developed by microencapsulating graphite with nanosized Ni-composite particles. The Ni-composite graphite showed great improvement in charge-discharge performance, coulomb efficiency, and cycling behavior when used as the negative electrode in a Li-ion cell with propylene carbonate (PC)-based electrolyte. For ex...