To date, high compressive ductility and energy absorption have been achieved in amorphous metal foams based on high-toughness Pdand Zr-based metallic glasses and are known to result from two extrinsic toughening mechanisms: bending of struts and shear band arrest by pores. We study here a syntactic amorphous metallic foam produced by infiltration of a bed of hollow crystalline iron spheres with...

The reactivity of heterobimetallic Zr/Co complexes linked by phosphinoamide ligands towards the oxidative addition of I(2) and alkyl halides is reported. These reactions are accompanied by dissociation of one phosphine ligand from Co and eta(2)-coordination to Zr. Addition of H(2) leads to both oxidative addition across the M-M bond and P-N bond cleavage.

A bifunctional imidazolium functionalized zirconium metal-organic framework (Zr-MOF), (I-)Meim-UiO-66 (2), was successfully prepared from the imidazole-containing Zr-MOF Im-UiO-66 (1) by a post-synthetic modification (PSM) method. It was found that the crystal size and pore features of the imidazole-containing 1 could be tuned at the nanoscale. The bifunctional MOF 2, containing Brønsted acid s...

This article focuses on the galvanic replacement synthesis of Ti-Ni and Zr-Ni metal systems with a “core-shell” structure, which are potential precursors for intermetallics. The authors defined effective parameters formation features polymetallic characterized by granulometric, phase, elemental composition. X-ray fluorescence phase analysis methods showed that deposition nickel dispersed titani...

The 17O resonances of zirconium-oxo clusters that can be found in porous Zr carboxylate metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been investigated by magic-angle spinning (MAS) NMR spectroscopy enhanced dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP).

The high-pressure structural chemistry of α-zirconium phosphate, α-Zr(HPO4)2·H2O, was studied using in-situ high-pressure diffraction and synchrotron radiation. The layered phosphate was studied under both hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic conditions and Rietveld refinement carried out on the resulting diffraction patterns. It was found that under hydrostatic conditions no uptake of additional wa...

The crystal structure and electron density (ED) distribution of an imine coupling product with an open zirconocene, Zr(2,4-C(7)H(11))[(i-Pr)NCHPhCH(2)CMe=CHCMe=CH(2)] (C(7)H(11) = dimethylpentadienyl), have been derived from accurate synchrotron X-ray diffraction measurements. The molecular structure reveals asymmetric coordination of Zr by the pentadienyl (2,4-C(7)H(11)) ligand ( = 2.56(...

of the p-N2 of 2 is observed, an indication that the terminal dinitrogen ligands are playing roles beyond that of mere spectators in the reaction of 1 with HC1. The data require a reaction sequence mediated by a symmetric species in which one terminal N2 and the p-N2 have become e q ~ i v a l e n t. ~ While a number of mechanisms satisfying this requirement could be formulated, we favor one inv...

The title compound, [Zr₃(C₅H₅)₆Cl₂O₂], exists as discrete mol-ecules possessing a series of three Cp(2)Zr units (Cp is cyclo-penta-dien-yl) bridged by oxide ligands and end-capped by chloride ligands. The Cp planes in the central and terminal zirconocene units form dihedral angles of 53.3 (2) and 53.5 (2)°, respectively. The two Zr-O-Zr bridge angles are nearly linear and form a planar Zr₃O₂ co...

Fe3Al intermetallics (Fe3Al, Fe3Al-Zr, Fe3Al-Zr,Mo and Fe3Al-Zr,Mo,Nb) were oxidized at 950 C in dry and humid (11 vol% water) synthetic air. Thermogravimetric measurements showed that the oxidation rates of the tested intermetallics were lower in humid air than in dry air (especially for Fe3Al-Zr,Mo and Fe3Al-Zr,Mo,Nb). The addition of small amounts of Zr, Mo or Nb improved the kinetics compar...