Copper oxide nanoparticles within hollow mesoporous silica spheres were prepared by binding/adsorbing Cu2+ or [Cu(NH3)4(H2O)2]2+ ions on the surface of carbon spheres, followed by formation of a mesoporous silica shell by sol-gel processing and calcination in air. The CuO nanoparticles can subsequently be converted into Cu3N nanoparticles by nitridation with ammonia. The effect of the different...

0021-9517/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jcat.2009.10.015 * Corresponding author. Address: Goesmann 222, Amherst, MA 01003-9336, USA. Fax: +1 413 545 4490 E-mail addresses: [email protected] (V. Ag (G.W. Huber), [email protected] (W.C. Conner edu (S.M. Auerbach). We have performed embedded-cluster calculations using density functional theory to investigate mechan...

A low temperature supercritical fluid nitridation (SCF-nitridation) technique was investigated to dope nitrogen into a indium-tin-oxide (ITO) electrode to boost the performance of hafnium oxide resistive random access memory (RRAM). After the SCF-nitridation treatment, the memory window for the N:ITO electrode device was increased from 40 to 100. Moreover, the operation voltages (VSET and VRESE...

Straight In2O3 nanowires (NWs) with diameters of 50 nm and lengths ≥2 μm have been grown on Si(001) via the wet oxidation of In at 850°C using Au as a catalyst. These exhibited clear peaks in the X-ray diffraction corresponding to the body centred cubic crystal structure of In2O3 while the photoluminescence (PL) spectrum at 300 K consisted of two broad peaks, centred around 400 and 550 nm. The ...

We have modeled the formation kinetics of nitrogen-substituted (nitrided) zeolites HY and silicalite; we have also modeled the stability of nitrided sites to heat and humidity. These kinetic calculations are based on mechanisms computed from DFT-computed pathways reported in our previous work. Reactant ammonia and product water concentrations were fixed at various levels to mimic continuous nit...

Ammonia (NH3) nitridation on an Fe surface was studied by combining density functional theory (DFT) and kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) calculations. A DFT calculation was performed to obtain the energy barriers (Eb) of the relevant elementary processes. The full mechanism of the exact reaction path was divided into five steps (adsorption, dissociation, surface migration, penetration, and diffusion) ...

Excellent Fe3Si-Si3N4-SiC composites were successfully prepared with FeSi75 and SiC as main starting materials by nitridation reaction(at 1300°C for 8Hrs). The material properties were studied; the ferrosilicon nitridation mechanism was analyzed through chemical thermodynamics; phase composition, microstructure, corrosion resistance of products were also investigated. The results are shown that...

In this letter, we propose a novel low-temperature nitridation technology on a tantalum nitride (TaN) thin film resistor (TFR) through supercritical carbon dioxide (SCCO2) treatment for temperature sensor applications. We also found that the sensitivity of temperature of the TaN TFR was improved about 10.2 %, which can be demonstrated from measurement of temperature coefficient of resistance (T...