NiCoP合金纳米棒阵列制备及电催化析氢性能研究

开发非贵金属析氢电催化剂对于解决当前严重的能源危机具有现实意义.本文在导电金属基底泡沫镍上原位生长NiCoP纳米棒阵列,该自支撑合金电极材料显示出优异的电催化析氢性能,在1 mol/L氢氧化钾电解液中,达到电流密度10 mA/cm2时,其仅需要过电位93 mV,此外该催化剂还具有较低的塔菲尔斜率、电荷迁移电阻和较高的催化稳定性.     

CoP纳米片制备及其电催化产氢性能的研究

高稳定性的催化剂对于规模化电催化产氢起着关键的作用.因此,采用简单的方法合成CoP纳米片,其表现出优越电催化活性和稳定性. CoP纳米片采用水热法和在氩气中磷化法制备的,纳米片的厚度为100～300 nm.CoP纳米片在0.5 M H2SO4的电解质中,表现出良好的电化学产氢性能,起始过电为～75 mV,塔菲尔斜率为～39. 67 mV/decade,当电流密度为10 mA· cm-2,过电压为～125 mV,经过1000次的循环后,保持良好的稳定性能.     

高性能、可弯曲碳纳米管纤维负载镍磷合金电催化析氢电极的研究

利用电化学沉积法在碳纳米管纤维(CNTFs)上沉积了镍磷合金,对比了不同循环圈数、不同镍磷比例下制备的碳纳米管纤维负载镍磷合金(Ni-P/CNTFs)电极在中性电解质溶液中的电催化析氢性能,发现当电沉积液中镍磷比为2:1时,沉积50圈时制备出的样品具有最佳的电催化析氢性能,产生10 mA·cm-2电流密度仅需138 mV过电势,塔菲尔(Tafel)斜率为83 mV·dec-1,同时具有良好的稳定性.并且在保持催化性能不变的前提下,样品可以进行弯曲,扩展了应用领域.     

高效Mo-Ni5P4双功能电催化剂的制备及其电解水性能研究

电催化制氢通过析氢反应(HER)和析氧反应(OER)同时产生氢气(H₂)和氧气(O₂),是一种高效且环境友好的产氢方式。但现阶段商业化的高效催化剂价格昂贵且储量较少，限制了电解水技术的大规模应用。因此，开发低成本、高稳定和环境友好的高效电催化剂，特别是基于非贵金属材料的磷化物电催化剂，成为近期研究热点。本研究通过水热和相对较低的磷化温度成功制备出了具有镂空纳米花结构的Mo掺杂Ni₅P₄催化剂。通过X射线衍射(XRD)、扫描电子显微镜(SEM)和透射电子显微镜(TEM)对Mo-Ni₅P₄催化剂进行了表征，并研究了Mo-Ni₅P₄材料的电化学性能。研究发现，所合成的催化剂凭借掺杂对电子结构的改变，以及多孔纳米片的大表面积优势，提高了HER水解离步骤的速率。在碱性电解液中，Mo负载下的Ni₅P₄仅需116 mV的析氢过电位就可实现10 mA·cm^-2的电...     

钛酸锶钡纳米管阵列薄膜的水热合成及其性能研究

以阳极氧化法制备的二氧化钛纳米管阵列为模板,结合水热法制备了钛酸锶钡纳米管阵列薄膜.讨论了Ba1-xSrxTiO3纳米管阵列薄膜的结构、形貌和电学性能.用X射线衍射仪表征其晶体结构;扫描电子显微镜观察其表面及断口形貌;以及用宽频介电阻抗谱仪测试其介电性能.结果表明:在较为温和的条件下用水热法制备了立方相及四方相的Ba1-xSrxTiO3纳米管阵列薄膜;纳米管孔径在65～ 80 nm之间,薄膜厚度可达10 μm以上;经热处理之后的薄膜样品在1 kHz介电常数可达338,介电损耗为0.46.     

介孔Co3S4纳米棒的制备及电催化产氧性能的研究

以六水合硝酸钴(Co(NO3)2· 6H2O)为钴源,硫脲(CS(NH2)2)为硫源,采用溶剂热法和低温固相硫化的方法制备出了介孔Co3S4纳米棒.采用X射线衍射(XRD),扫描电镜(SEM)和透射电镜(TEM)等手段对于介孔Co3S4纳米棒进行表征,同时对介孔Co3S4纳米棒进行了电催化产氧性能测试.结果表明:介孔Co3S4纳米棒的起始过电位为0.37 V,塔菲尔斜率为76.95 mV/dec,具有高的电催化产氧性能.     

六方相氧化钨的合成及其电催化还原氢的研究

以钨酸钠为原料,硫酸胍为辅助剂,在强酸性反应体系通过水热法合成了氧化钨纳米纤维.利用XRD、SEM、TEM、EDS等对产物进行了表征.结果表明:当体系中钨酸钠与硫酸胍的摩尔比为6∶1时,在反应温度为170℃和反应时间48 h的条件下获得六方晶系的氧化钨纳米纤维,纤维的平均直径为30 nm,长度为1～3 μm.采用循环伏安法对样品的电催化性能进行分析,以硫酸胍为辅助剂获得的六方相氧化钨(hex-WO3)对氢具有很强的电催化还原活性,在燃料电池等领域具有潜在的应用价值.     

银掺杂TiO2纳米管阵列的制备及其锂电性能

采用银镜反应对阳极氧化法制备的三维有序TiO2纳米管阵列进行Ag掺杂,利用X射线衍射仪(XRD)、扫描电子显微镜(SEM)以及X射线能量色散光谱仪(EDX)研究了复合Ag/TiO2纳米管阵列的微观结构及形貌;并进一步利用恒流充/放电、循环伏安(CV)及交流阻抗(AC)等方法测试其电化学性能.结果表明:复合Ag/TiO2纳米管的首次放电比容量为168 mAh/g,高于纯TiO2纳米管的118 mAh/g,且具有更好的稳定性能及倍率性能;性能改善的原因不仅得益于导电率的提高,而且得益于Ag作为负极材料时具有储锂活性.     

硒化钨花状纳米晶的可控合成及电催化产氢性能研究

采用胶体化学法,以氧化钨(W18O49)为钨源制备出花状硒化钨纳米晶.采用透射电子显微镜(TEM)、高分辨透射电镜(HRTEM)和X射线衍射(XRD)手段对硒化钨纳米晶进行表征.本文对硒化钨花状纳米晶体的可控合成进行了初步探索,同时对烧结后的硒化钨纳米晶进行了电催化产氢测试.结果表明,硒化钨花状纳米晶具有良好的电催化性能.     

铜掺杂类金刚石纳米点阵列的制备及场发射性能研究

利用磁过滤等离子体结合氧化铝模板(AA0)技术在室温下制备了具有优异场发射性能的铜掺杂类金刚石(DLC)纳米点阵列.微观分析表明,铜掺杂类金刚石纳米点阵列分布均匀,密度高达109cm-2;利用X射线光电子能谱对制备的铜掺杂类金刚石纳米点阵列进行结构分析,测得铜的掺杂量为3.6;且sp3键含量高达60;;通过对铜掺杂类金刚石纳米点阵列的场发射性能测试,试验结果表明,铜掺杂类金刚石纳米点阵列开启电场和阈值电场分别为0.08V/μm,0.42V/μm,并且在电场值为0.67V/μm时,发射电流密度高达95mA/cm2,场发射性能明显优于无掺杂类金刚石纳米点阵列.     

Development of Pauling's concepts of geometric characteristics of atoms

The evolution of the geometric characteristics introduced by Pauling and their dependence on the specific features of the structure and chemical bonds have been considered. The values of the covalent and van der Waals radii are given as well as their relationships and mutual transitions.     

Relationship of Morphological Types of Dynamic Forms of Crystals

Crystallography Reports - The relationship of morphological spectra (sets of data on the morphological types of real polyhedral crystals and their probabilities under current physicochemical...     

A SAXS study of kinetics of aggregation of silica sols

SAXS in situ experiments on the evolution of TMOS solutions during hydrolysis and polycondensation lead to power laws with scaling exponents ≈ 2. It is suggested that this could be the result of the polydispersity of the samples and that only an apparent fractal dimension can be obtained in this way. Kinetic studies tend to indicate that agglomeration in the sol is the result of a diffusion-controlled process.     

Study of the possibility of interactive control of the surface profile of X-ray optical elements

We investigate the possibility of controlling the curvature parameters of parabolic mirrors that are modular elements of two types consisting of a base and thin inserts placed at the opposite side of the work surface. In the first type of modular elements, bending is controlled by the difference in the coefficients of the thermal expansion of the base and inserts. In the second type of elements, the profile is changed by the piezoelectric straining of the inserts under an electric field. A correlation is established between the parameters of modular elements and their surface curvature profile.     

A review of measurement of thermophysical properties of silicon melt

Measurements of thermophysical properties of Si melt and supplementary study of X-ray scattering/diffraction by the authors' group were reviewed. The values obtained differed variously from those of literature. Density was 2–3% larger, surface tension 20–30% smaller, viscosity up to 40% larger, electrical conductivity 8% smaller, spectral emissivity more or less in good agreement with literature values, and thermal diffusivity a few percent larger. An anomalous density jump was found near the melting point. Surface tension and viscosity also showed anomaly. A strange time-dependent change of density was observed over 3 h after melting. X-ray analyses suggested a slight change in local atom ordering, but showed no sign of cluster formation. An addition of 0.1 at% gallium caused the density jump to disappear, while that of boron caused no change. An EXAFS study of the former melt indicated a strong interaction between Ga and Si atoms as if molecules of GaSi₃ existed. The implications of the measured properties are a possibility of soft-turbulence in an Si melt in a relatively large crucible, a more complicated manner of intake of oxygen depleted molten Si from the free surface region to underneath the growing crystal, and a relaxation of the melt after melting arising from trapped gas species.     

Generation of crystal structures of heteromolecular compounds by the method of discrete modeling of packings

Within the method of discrete modeling of packings, an algorithm of generation of possible crystal structures of heteromolecular compounds containing two or three molecules in the primitive unit cell, one of which has an arbitrary shape and the other (two others) has a shape close to spherical, is proposed. On the basis of this algorithm, a software package for personal computers is developed. This package has been approved for a number of compounds, investigated previously by X-ray diffraction analysis. The results of generation of structures of five compounds—four organic salts (with one or two spherical anions) and one solvate—are represented.     

Mechanism of thermal expansion of structural modifications of zinc pyrovanadate

Crystal chemical characteristics of the α and β modifications of Zn₂V₂O₇ are calculated based on in situ high-temperature X-ray measurements. The expansion of the structure is found to be strongly anisotropic up to the negative volumetric thermal expansion of the α-Zn₂V₂O₇ unit cell in the temperature range of 300–600°С, α _V =–17.94 × 10^–6 1/K. The transformations of the “hard” and “soft” sublattices with an increase temperature and at the phase transition are considered in detail. It is shown that the negative volumetric thermal expansion of α-Zn₂V₂O₇ is due to the degeneracy of the zigzag-like shape of zinc–oxygen columns at constant distances between their vertices.     

Dependence of the parameters of equations of viscous flow on chemical composition of silicate melts

The temperature dependence of viscosity of silicate melts is discussed in the framework of the Avramov–Milchev (AM) equation. The composition is described by means of two parameters: the molar fraction, x, and the “lubricant fraction”, l. The molar fraction is the sum of the molar parts x_i of all oxides dissolved in SiO₂, the molar fraction of the latter being 1 ? x. It is shown that, with sufficient precision, two of the parameters of the AM equation can be presented as unique functions of the molar fraction. On the other hand, x is not sufficient to determine properly the reference temperature T_r , at which viscosity is η_r = 10¹³ [dPa.s]. Therefore, additional parameter, “lubricant fraction” l, is introduced. For each of the components, l_i is a product of molar part x_i and a specific dimensionless coefficient 0 ≤ k_i ≤ 1 accounting for the specific contribution of this component to the increased mobility of the system. It is demonstrated that, for l > 0, the reference temperature is related to the “lubricant fraction” l through the reference temperature T_r,SiO2 of pure SiO₂.     

Comparative analysis of two methods of calculation of the orientation of domain walls in ferroelastics

Two types of domain-wall equations are analyzed: the equations derived by the Sapriel method and the equations obtained by interface matching of the thermal-expansion tensor. It is shown that, for W-type domain walls, these methods yield the same equations. For W′-type domain walls, the equations obtained by different methods coincide for proper ferroelastics and differ for improper ferroelastics.     

Investigation of the Mechanism of Influence of Stress Corrosion on the Development of Macroplastic Instabilities of Aluminum–Magnesium Alloy

Crystallography Reports - Macroscopic jumps of plastic deformation (few percent in amplitude) on creep curves of aluminum–magnesium alloy, caused by a local effect of concentrated solution of...