The monomeric title zirconium(IV) compound, [Zr(C(12)H(21)N(2)Si)(2)Cl(2)], was prepared by the metathetical reaction of [LiN(SiMe(2)NMe(2))(2,6-Me(2)C(6)H(3))](2) with zirconium tetra-chloride. The Zr(IV) atom is N,N'-chelated by the N-silylated anilido ligand. Along with two Cl atoms, the six-coordinated Zr(IV) atom demonstrates a highly distorted octa-hedral geometry. The two ligands around ...

Let P and Q be additive and hereditary graph properties, r, s ∈ N, r ≥ s, and [Zr] be the set of all s-element subsets of Zr. An (r, s)-fractional This work was supported by the Slovak Science and Technology Assistance Agency under the contract No. APVV-0023-10 and by the Slovak VEGA Grant 1/0652/12. 2 A. Kemnitz, M. Marangio, P. Mihók, J. Oravcová and R. Soták (P,Q)-total coloring of G is an a...

EXAFS spectra for all K absorption edges and X-ray scattering data have been obtained on an amorphous Fe-Zr sample prepared by mechanical alloying and a rapidly quenched Co-Zr one. Partial pair distribution fnnctions have been determined as a solution of an inverse ill-posed problem for the system of integral equations describing combined experimental data. For Fe-Zr and Ca-Zr amorphous alloys ...

Very recently the atomic masses of neutron-rich Zr isotopes, from Zr to Zr, have been measured with high precision. Using a schematic Interacting Boson Model (IBM) Hamiltonian, the evolution from spherical to deformed shapes along the chain of Zr isotopes, describing at the same time the excitation energies as well as the two-neutron separation energies, can be rather well reproduced. The inter...

Novel composite membranes for high temperature polymer-electrolyte fuel cells (HT-PEFC) based on a poly[oxy-3,3-bis(4'-benzimidazol-2″-ylphenyl)phtalide-5″(6″)-diyl] (PBI-O-PhT) polymer with small amounts of added Zr were prepared. It was shown in a model reaction between zirconium acetylacetonate (Zr(acac)4) and benzimidazole (BI) that Zr-atoms are capable to form chemical bonds with BI. Thus,...

Vinylation of the chloro–ethyl and dichloro zirconium complexes [Zr(CpSi2Cp)ClX] (CpSi2Cp=1,1%,2,2%-(SiMe2)2(h-C5H3)2; X=Et, Cl) with one or two equivalents of Mg(CH CH2)Cl gave the new zirconacyclopentane [Zr(CpSi2Cp){hCH2 (CH2)2 CH2}] and (h-butadiene)zirconium [Zr(CpSi2Cp){h-(butadiene)}] complexes, respectively. Addition of a toluene solution of PhC CPh to the zirconacyclopentane compound a...

(Ti,Zr)C powder was sintered with WC-Co following an industrial process, including an isotherm at 1410 °C. A series of interrupted sintering trials was performed with the aim of studying the sintering behavior and the microstructural evolution during both solid-state and liquid-state sintering. Reference samples, using the same elemental compositions but with the starting components TiC and ZrC...

With the motivation of exploring new high-strength ceramics, ab initio evolutionary simulations are performed to search for all the stable compounds in the Zr-O system. We have found that not only the traditional compound ZrO2, but also the ordered suboxides R3̅-Zr6O, R3̅c-Zr3O, P3̅1m-Zr2O and P6̅2m-ZrO are stable at zero pressure. The crystal structure of semimetallic P6̅2m-ZrO consists of Zr-graph...

Neutron irradiation embrittlement behaviors of some Zr-Cu-Al and Zr-Cu-Ni-Al BMGs with various Zr-contents have been examined by Charpy impact tests under neutron fluences 1~2 x 1024 n/m2 at relatively low high temperatures about 325 K 550 K, respectively. In the case strength Zr45Cu45Al10 BMG increased from 59 kJ/m2 up to 92 accompanied decreasing hardness. Zr-rich Zr50Cu40Al10, Zr55Cu30Ni5Al1...

In the present work, ceria, ceria-zirconia (Ce = 80 at.%, Zr = 20 at.%), ceria praseodymia (Ce = 80 at.%, Pr = 20 at.%) and ceria-zirconia-praseodymia catalysts (Ce = 80 at.%, Zr = 10 at.% and Pr = 10 at.%) have been prepared by the multi-inlet vortex reactor (MIVR). For each set of samples, two inlet flow rates have been used during the synthesis (namely, 2 ml min-1, and 20 ml min-1) in order ...