Tungsten disulfide polycrystalline microfibers were successfully synthesized by a process involving electrospinning, calcination, and sulfidation steps. We used an aqueous solution of silicotungstic acid (H4SiW12O40) polyvinyl alcohol as precursors for the synthesis composite fibers needle-less electrospinning technique. The obtained green (av. diam. 460 nm) converted calcination in air to tung...

Abstract. The results of photocatalytic activity tungsten oxide in visible light are analyzed. It was shown that has under the action photodegradation dye methylene blue. determined concentration 15 mg/L provides highest rate photodecomposition optimum temperature for process determined. blue decomposition is most effective at 25 °С.

Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE) is a promising and laboratory-proven in-situ resource utilization technology for generating oxygen from lunar regolith simulant. Prior to this work, iridium metal was the only demonstrated suitable inert anode material, but its use had been limited to laboratory-scale testing owing to its extraordinarily high density, hardness, and cost. In the current work, elec...

Metallic eye shields have been widely used for near-eye treatments to protect critical regions, but have never been incorporated into treatment plans because of the unwanted appearance of the metal artifacts on CT images. The purpose of this work was to test the use of an acrylic dummy eye shield as a substitute for a metallic eye shield during CT scans. An acrylic dummy shield of the same size...

The acidity and its effects on reactivity of Keggin-type heteropolycompounds were examined by catalytic probe reactions, microcalorimetry of ammonia sorption, and density functional quantum chemical calculations. Phosphotungstic, phosphomolybdic, silicotungstic, and silicomolybdic acids were used as model compounds. The specific rates of double-bond isomerization of both 1-butene and cis-2-bute...

This study has been carried out to develop new cathode materials for two types of thermionic cathode. First is concerning to the tungsten electrodes for the plasma furnace and welding torches. The second one is the electrodes for air plasma cutting torch. Tungsten electrodes activated with a single and combined additives of rare earth metal oxides, such as La203,Y203 and Ce02,are produced and p...

In this study, tungsten oxide coatings with 13 and 75 at% of oxygen were prepared by DC reactive magnetron sputtering from a pure W target in an Ar+O2 atmosphere. The coating hardness (H) decreased with increasing oxygen content from 25 to 7.7GPa. The values of H/E ratio were 0.08 and 0.07 for W87O13 and W25O75, respectively. The tribological measurements were carried out on a pin-on-disc tribo...

The electrochemical characteristics of a mixture of Pt-black and WC powders and its catalytic activity for methanol and formic acid oxidation were investigated in acid solution. XRD and AFM measurements revealed that the WC powder employed for the investigation was a single-phase material consisting of crystallites/spherical particles of average size of about 50 nm, which were agglomerated into...