KCoMoS2 was supported on various carbon support materials to study the effect synthesis gas conversion. Next two activated carbons with high micropore volume, a traditional alumina (?-Al2O3) and its coated form (CCA) were studied for comparison. Coating increases selectivity alcohols, but AC-supported catalysts show even higher alcohol selectivities yields, especially at temperatures where conv...

Abstract We present results on very thin NiO films which are able to detect 3 ppm of acetone, toluene and n-butyl acetate in synthetic air operate at 300°C. with 25 50 nm thicknesses were prepared by dc reactive magnetron sputtering alumina substrates previously coated Pt layers as heater interdigitated electrodes. Annealed indexed the (fcc) crystalline structure their calculated grain sizes ra...

Abstract In this research the oxidation resistance at high temperature of a TiAl-based alloy has been improved by hot-dipping in molten aluminium and performing an interdiffusion process. After selecting best process parameters, compact TiAl 3 coating characterized almost constant thickness was formed on surface. Isothermal tests, carried out 900, 950 1000 °C, showed that coated is able to form...

The retention parameters of seven monoand nine ditetrazolium salts were investigated by reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RP-LC) using polyethylene-coated alumina support with various concentration of eluent-mixtures and by reversedphase thin-layer chromatography (RP-TLC) using the same support and eluent-mixtures. Principal component analysis (PCA) followed by non-linear mapping (NLM) and ...

Vertically aligned piezoelectric P(VDF-TrFE) nanotube array comprising nanotubes embedded in anodized alumina membrane matrix without entanglement has been fabricated. It is found that the crystallographic polar axes of the P(VDF-TrFE) nanotubes are oriented along the nanotubes long axes. Such a desired crystal orientation is due to the kinetic selection mechanism for lamellae growth confined i...

The adsorption potential of iron acetate coated activated alumina (IACAA) for removal of arsenic [As (III)] as arsenite by batch sorption technique is described. IACAA was characterized by XRD, FTIR, EDAX and SEM instruments. Percentage adsorption on IACAA was determined as a function of pH, contact time and adsorbent dose. The study revealed that the removal of As (III) was best achieved at pH...

Interpenetrating Al O /Al composites were created by liquid metal infiltration of alumina structures with three-dimensional periodicity produced by a robotic deposition method. Volume-averaged lattice strains in the alumina phase were measured by synchrotron X-ray diffraction at various uniaxial compression stresses up to 200 MPa. Load transfer was observed to occur from the aluminum to the alu...

Simple nanoporous alumina matrix modification procedure, in which the electrically highly insulating alumina barrier layer at the bottom of the pores is replaced with the conductive layer of the gold beds, was described. This modification makes possible the direct electron exchange between the underlying aluminum support and the redox species encapsulated in the alumina pores, thus, providing t...

This study was conducted to enhance the tensile bond strengths of resin cements to zirconia ceramics. Fifty-six zirconia ceramic specimens (Cercon Base) and twenty-eight silica-based ceramic specimens (GN-1, GN-1 Ceramic Block) were air-abraded using alumina. Thereafter, the zirconia ceramic specimens were divided into two subgroups of 28 each according to the surface pretreatment; no pretreatm...

We measure the elastic response of a free-standing lipid membrane to a local indentation by using an atomic force microscope. Starting point is a planar gold-coated alumina substrate with a chemisorbed 3-mercaptopropionic acid monolayer displaying circular pores of very well defined and tunable size, over which bilayers composed of N,N,-dimethyl-N,N,-dioctadecylammonium bromide or 1,2-dioleoyl-...