Single crystals of the title compound, aluminium niobium triphosphate, Al(0.5)Nb(1.5)(PO(4))(3), have been synthesized by a high-temperature reaction in a platinium crucible. The Al(III) and Nb(V) atoms occupy the same site on the axis, with disorder in the ratio of 1:3. The fundamental building units of the title structure are isolated Al/NbO(6) octa-hedra and PO(4) tetra-hedra (. 2 symmetry),...

Melt-synthesis yielded lithium-fluorohectorites (Li-hect(x)) with variable layer charge (x = 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0). Counterintuitively, both tactoid diameter and intracrystalline reactivity increased concomitantly with increasing layer charge. This way hectorites with very large diameters were obtained (d(50%) = 48 μm) that nevertheless still spontaneously delaminate when immersed into water and ...

The accelerated crucible r9tation technique (ACRT) has been applied to the THM growth of Hg I _xCdxTe crystals to grow the crystals at a higher rate. These higher growth rates, which should be achieved by extending the regions of convectional stirring towards the interfaces, have been used in an attempt to explain the results in terms of simple constitutional supercooling arguments. Some differ...

The classical ischemic cascade anticipates perfusion disturbances to precede the development of wall motion abnormalities, but does not account for regional heterogeneity of both perfusion and function. In this issue of JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging, Xie et al. (1) examine the impact of subendocardial ischemia (identified using real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography [MCE]) on myocardial ...

The use of linear graphs in the development a mathematical model metal melting an induction crucible furnace allows to determine temperature and control excess main parts furnace. In addition, if it is necessary optimize thermal mode operation according presented graph conversion method, any part with desired parameters can be obtained.

For the preparation of the coating the CNTs were dispersed in a 30 wt% solution of 3MBP-dca in deionised water by sonication. The resulting black slurry was filtered by vacuum filtration and the black residue in the filter was washed with 50 mL of ethanol to remove excess IL. The residue was subsequently placed in ceramic crucible and thermally treated in a furnace under constant argon flow to ...

The direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method is applied here to model the electron-beam (e-beam) physical vapor deposition of copper thin films. A suitable molecular model for copper-copper interactions have been determined based on comparisons with experiments for a 2D slit source. The model for atomic copper vapor is then used in axi-symmetric DSMC simulations for analysis of a typical e-b...