A study of the microstructure, development of contact resistance during oxidation, and abrasive wear behavior for a Ni–18 at.%Ru alloy is presented in this article. It is shown that the alloy can be solutionized and aged, resulting in a fine lamellar mixture of FCC a-Ni and HCP b-Ru phases. Upon oxidation in air for 400 h, the measured contact resistance of the alloy is two orders of magnitude ...

In this review article, the fundamentals of electrochemical reactions involving metal hydrides are explained, followed by a report of recent progress in hydrogen storage alloys for electrochemical applications. The status of various alloy systems, including AB₅, AB₂, A₂B₇-type, Ti-Ni-based, Mg-Ni-based, BCC, and Zr-Ni-based metal hydride alloys, for their most important electrochemical applicat...

We give a more practical variant of Shanks’ 1954 algorithm for computing the continued fraction of logb a, for integers a > b > 1, using the floor and ceiling functions and an integer parameter c > 1. The variant, when repeated for a few values of c = 10, enables one to guess if logb a is rational and to find approximately r partial quotients. 1. Shanks’ algorithm In his article [1], Shanks gav...

The title mononuclear Ni(II) complex, [Ni(C(11)H(11)N(2)O(5))(2)(C(2)H(8)N(2))(2)], is built up by inversion symmetry associated with the central Ni atom. The ethyl-enediamine ligands are non-planar. The r.m.s. deviation from the mean plane of the five-membered Ni-ethyl-amine chelate ring plane is 0.1945 Å. In the crystal structure, complex mol-ecules are linked to each other via N-H⋯O and O--H...

Abstract Let $\Gamma $ be a finite set, and $X\ni x$ fixed kawamata log terminal germ. For any lc germ $(X\ni x,B:=\sum _{i} b_iB_i)$ , such that $b_i\in \Gamma Nakamura’s conjecture, which is equivalent to the ascending chain condition conjecture for minimal discrepancies germs, predicts there always exists prime divisor E over $a(E,X,B)=\mathrm {mld}(X\ni x,B)$ $a(E,X,0)$ bounded from above. ...