High surface area alumina-supported cobalt oxides and carbides were synthesized using a one-pot reverse microemulsion method (followed by carburization for carbides). Two synthesis variations gave fine powders having specific areas ranging from 178−272 m2/g, consisting of oxide or carbide nanoparticles (5−10 nm) dispersed on γ-alumina (10−13 wt% loadings). The resulted materials tested CO2 hydr...

The introduction metallocenes, in particular ferrocene (Fe(η-C5H5)2), cobaltocene (Co(η-C5H5)2), and nickelocene (Ni(η-C5H5)2), together with the carborane source molecule closo-1,2-dicarbadodecaborane, during plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, will result in the transition metal doping of semiconducting boron carbides. Here we report using ferrocene to introduce Fe dopants, and a semic...

Rights: © 1994 American Physical Society (APS). This is the accepted version of the following article: Puska, Martti J. & Sob, M. & Brauer, G. & Korhonen, T. 1994. First-principles calculation of positron lifetimes and affinities in perfect and imperfect transition-metal carbides and nitrides. Physical Review B. Volume 49, Issue 16. 10947-10957. ISSN 1550-235X (electronic). DOI: 10.1103/physrev...

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Aluminum and its alloys have a lot of industrial applications due to their appropriate physical and chemical characteristics. However, those present a modest mechanical performance. One method to improve its strenght is the addition of hard insoluble particles as: carbides (Al4C3, TiC), oxides (Al2O3) or nitrides (TiN, AlN), which can difficult the dislocation movement at atomic level, resultin...

Successful metallurgical design of metal-matrix-composites relies on the knowledge of the intrinsic property profiles of the metal matrix and especially the compounds employed for particles, whiskers or fibres. In this work we compiled the key properties melting point, bulk modulus, shear modulus, Young׳s modulus, density, hardness, Poisson׳s ratio and structure/space group from the widespread ...