A suite of mathematical models for solid-state phase transformations in solid-state alloys is presented. The work deals in particular with dissolution and growth of particles in solid-state alloys. Several models are presented and numerical solution procedures are summarized briefly. Further, some analytic solutions are considered shortly, which are useful to validate the numerical solutions. O...

Bismuth niobate solid solutions, BixNbOδ (2.5 ≤ x ≤ 6), have been prepared using a mechanochemical method. The solid solutions were also prepared using a solidstate conventional method for comparison purposes. Bi3NbO7 was successfully obtained via a mechanochemical method at a lower synthesis temperature (milled at 1000 rpm for one hour followed by heating at 700C for 24 h) than the conventiona...

The scheelite type laser crystals LiREF4 melt congruently only for RE being one of the elements Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, or possibly Y, respectively. For RE = Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, or Ho the corresponding scheelites undergo a peritectic melting under the formation of the corresponding rare earth fluoride. The melting behavior of LiREF4 mixed crystals with two or more RE is not yet known well. If RE is a mixtu...

We have applied a novel 'melt synthesis technique' rather than a conventional solid-state reaction to rapidly synthesize phosphor materials. During a synthesis, the mixture of oxides or their precursors is melted by light pulses (10-60 s) in an arc-imaging furnace on a water-cooled copper hearth to form a globule of 1-5 mm diameter, which is then rapidly cooled by turning off the light. Using t...

1. The proof is completed that the influence of electrolytes on the viscosity of suspensions of powdered particles of gelatin in water is similar to the influence of electrolytes on the viscosity of solutions of gelatin in water. 2. It has been suggested that the high viscosity of proteins is due to the existence of a different type of viscosity from that existing in crystalloids. It is shown t...

We study two nonlocal variational problems in this paper. One models micro-phase separation of diblock copolymers and the other models solid-solid phase transformations that lead to fine structures. We study a parameter range where the problems can be approximated by their asymptotic limits. We find all the local minimum solutions of the limiting problems. Because these local minima are isolate...

The thermoelectric properties of solid solutions of the type b-K2Bi82xSbxSe13 (0,x,8) were studied with respect to thermal behavior, band gap variation, and charge transport properties as a function of x. At x values between 0 and 1.5, the energy band gap is observed to decrease ~anomalous! before it widens with increasing x values as would be expected. For selected members of the solid solutio...