Ultrafine tungsten carbide-nickel (WC-Ni) cemented carbides with varied fractions of silicon carbide (SiC) nanowhisker (0-3.75 wt.%) were fabricated by spark plasma sintering at 1350°C under a uniaxial pressure of 50 MPa with the assistance of vanadium carbide (VC) and tantalum carbide (TaC) as WC grain growth inhibitors. The effects of SiC nanowhisker on the microstructure and mechanical prope...

Trace metals (e.g. Ni, Zn) leached from industrial and agricultural processes are often simultaneously present in contaminated soils and sediments. Their mobility, bioavailability, and ecotoxicity are affected by sorption and cosorption at mineral/solution interfaces. Cosorption of trace metals has been investigated at the macroscopic level, but there is not a clear understanding of the molecul...

Cubic boron nitride (cBN) is widely applied in cutting and grinding tools. cBN grains plated by pure Ni and Ni/SiC composite were produced under the same conditions from an additive-free nickel Watts type bath. The processed electroplating products were characterized by the techniques of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and thermoanalysis (TG-DTA). Due to the presence...

0921-4534/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.physc.2009.11.179 * Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (D.C. Ling) The effect of magnetic Ni and non-magnetic Zn impurities on superconducting transition temperature Tc in RuSr2R(Cu1 x(Ni, Zn)x)2O8 with R = Gd or Eu (Niand Zn-substituted Ru1212Gd(Eu)) was extensively studied. It is found that the suppressi...

A new Zn-Ni-Cd plating process was developed which offers a unique way of controlling and optimizing the Ni and Cd contents in the final deposit. Zinc-nickel-cadmium alloy was deposited from a 0.5 M NiSO4 1 0.2 M ZnSO4 bath in the presence of 0.015 M CdSO4 and 1 g/L nonyl phenyl polyethylene oxide. Using this process a Zn-Ni-Cd ternary alloy, with a higher nickel content as compared to that obt...

A new generation of alloys, which rely on a combination of various strengthening mechanisms, has been developed for application in molten salt nuclear reactors. In the current study, a battery of dispersion and precipitation-strengthened (DPS) NiMo-based alloys containing varying amounts of SiC (0.5-2.5 wt %) were prepared from Ni-Mo-SiC powder mixture via a mechanical alloying (MA) route follo...

Electromigration in the Ni/Sn-Zn/Cu solder interconnect was studied with an average current density of 3.51 9 10 A/cm for 168.5 h at 150 C. When the electrons flowed from the Ni side to the Cu side, uniform layers of Ni5Zn21 and Cu5Zn8 were formed at the Ni/Sn-Zn and Cu/Sn-Zn interfaces. However, upon reversing the current direction, where electron flow was from the Cu side to the Ni side, a th...

— The influence of the Zn and Cd ion contents upon the natural spin resonance in Ni-Zn and Ni-Cd ferrites has been investigated. Previous experiments by other authors have shown that substituting Zn ions for Ni ions leads to a change of the total effective anisotropy field and consequently of the natural spin resonance frequency fi. ft measurements have been carried out by using a coaxial line ...