Anodic dissolution of Nb foil in an electrolyte solution containing liquid NH3 and NH4Br produces an insoluble precursor that can be calcined to yield phase-pure NbN. Infrared spectroscopy is consistent with a precursor having the general formula NbXn(NH2)5-npNH3. By changing the calcination conditions, the phase of the resulting NbN powder can be varied. For example, calcining in pure Ar yield...

Calcined coke is an important material for making carbon anodes for smelting of alumina to aluminum. Calcining is an energy intensive industry and a significant amount of heat is wasted in the calcining process. Efficiently managing this energy resource is tied to the profit margin and survivability of a calcining plant. To help improve the energy efficiency of the calcining process, a 3-D comp...

Graphitic carbon nanotubes (GCNTs) were fabricated from in situ produced graphitic carbon by calcining biomass/melamine/Ni(NO3)2·6H2O. Ni-based hybrids (NiOx@GCNTs) displayed superior catalytic capacity in direct dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene. The specific reaction rate can reach up to 8.1 μmol m(-2) h(-1), and unprecedented stability was obtained over 165 h without any activation process.

Abstract Two tungstates containing platinum nanoparticles (Pt Npts) were obtained by air-calcining α-Keggin-type diplatinum(II)-coordinated polyoxotungstates, Cs 3 [α-PW 11 O 39 { cis -Pt(NH ) 2 } ]⋅8H ( Cs-P-Pt and 4 [α-SiW ]⋅11H Cs-Si-Pt ), at 700–900 °C for 5 h. The polyoxotungstate was transformed to a mixture of Pt Npts PW 12 40 upon calcination, while the structures W 35 . generated 700 h...

Three-dimensional, hollow, anatase TiO(2) boxes, each was enclosed by six single-crystalline TiO(2) plates exposed with highly reactive {001} facets, were facilely obtained by calcining a cubic TiOF(2) solid precursor at 500-600 °C. The formation of such particular nanostructures is attributed to the hard self-template restriction and the adsorption of F(-) ions from the TiOF(2).

Nickel oxide nanostructures with different lengths have been easily synthesized by calcining nickel foil after soaking in LiOH solution of different concentrations. The measurements of electrochemical properties of these NiO nanostructures show that different lengths of NiO nanostructures would have different electrochemical properties and the NiO nanowires with the longest length have the larg...