Tuning the enzyme-like activity and studying the interaction between biologically relevant species and nano-enzymes may facilitate the applications of nanostructures in mimicking natural enzymes. In this work, AuPt alloy nanoparticles (NPs) with varying compositions were prepared through a facile method by co-reduction of Au3+ and Pt2+ in aqueous solutions. The composition could be tuned easily...

It is believed that particle cracking resulting from phase transformation is responsible for the poor cycle performance of lithium alloy anodes. Pulverization effects may be reduced by using, (i) smaller active particles; (ii) active particle composites with different potentials for the onset of lithium alloy formation; and (iii) expanded alloys which have undergone a major increase during init...

Crystal phase regulations may endow materials with enhanced or new functionalities. However, syntheses of noble metal-based allomorphic nanomaterials are extremely difficult, and only a few successful examples have been found. Herein, we report the discovery of hexagonal close-packed Pt-Ni alloy, despite the fact that Pt-Ni alloys are typically crystallized in face-centred cubic structures. The...

In this STIR we proposed to investigate the microstructure and alloy composition on the formation and stability of nanotwinned microstructures. The long-term alloy design strategy focuses on microalloying additions to 1) reduce the stacking fault energy (SFE), enhance twinning formation, and increase twin volume fraction; 2) reduce the twin size via increasing interstitial content while also ta...

background: dental cobalt base alloys are biocompatible dental materials and have been widely used in dentistry. however, metals are bioinert and may not present bioactivity in human body. bioactivity is the especial ability to interact with human body and make a bonding to soft and hard tissues. the aim of the present research was fabrication and bioactivity evaluation of novel cobalt alloy/ f...

In this paper, we present an investigation on the use of Au-Ag alloy popcorn-shaped nanoparticles (NPs) to realise the broadband optical absorption enhancement of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs). Both simulation and experimental results indicate that compared with regular plasmonic NPs, such as nano-spheres, irregular popcorn-shaped alloy NPs exhibit absorption enhancement over a broad wavele...

Ternary Al70Cu20Fe10 alloy nano-composites prepared by mechanical alloying are characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS). The results indicate that after milled for 10 hours, the coordination environment around Cu atoms is changed largely and becomes disordered, but the local structure of Fe atoms still remains as that of α-Fe. This indicates the formin...

Thermal stability and the kinetics of the grain growth of nano-crystalline Mg-6Al-1Zn-1Si alloy prepared via mechanical alloying (MA) were investigated. It started with elemental powders, using a variety of analytical techniques including differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), X-ray diffraction method (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy dispersive spectrometry (E...

magnesium and its alloys are light, biodegradable, biocompatible metals that have promising applications as biomaterials. magnesium is potentially useful for orthopedic and cardiovascular applications. however, the corrosion rate of this metal is so high that its degradation occurs before the end of the healing process. one of the ways to improve the corrosion rate is to compose it’s with ceram...

Carbon nano-tube (CNT) reinforced metal matrix nano-composites have attracted a great deal of attention in recent years due to the outstanding physical and mechanical properties of CNTs. However, utilizing CNT as reinforcement for alloy matrixes has not been studies systematically and is still a challenging issue. In the present study, Cu80Fe20/10CNT nanocomposite was synthesized by mechanical ...