New Aspects of Platinum Group Metal-Based Solid-Solution Alloy Nanoparticles: Binary to High-Entropy Alloys

Platinum group metal (PGM) nanoparticles (NPs) have been investigated in a variety of research fields such as catalysis and electronics. Alloying has been recognized as one of the most efficient ways of improving or creating properties in metals. Among the types of alloys, solid-solution alloy NPs have the advantage of being capable of continuously changing their properties by tuning their composition. However, synthesizing PGM solid-solution alloy NPs with any combination and composition is not an easy task owing to the metallurgical aspects. In this minireview, the focus is on recent advances in PGM-based solid-solution alloy NPs, and in particular those with immiscible alloy systems. Concepts, synthesis, and properties of the alloy NPs are introduced, and the existing challenges and future perspectives are discussed.     

Thermal analysis studies on the boron-potassium perchlorate-nitrocellulose pyrotechnic system

Studies have been carried out on the boron-potassium perchlorate-nitrocellulose pyrotechnic system by DSC, simultaneous TG-DTA-mass spectrometry and chemical analysis. Quantitative measurements have been made on the exothermic pre-ignition reaction which took place above 360°C and the results have been compared with those obtained previously for the corresponding systems containing zirconium and a zirconium/nickel alloy.     

Pt基合金氧还原催化剂设计的密度泛函理论计算研究

本文提出以合金形成能、Pt表面偏析能和氧原子吸附能作为依据筛选具有高活性和高稳定性的表面富Pt氧还原合金催化剂. 利用DFT计算对Pt与各种过渡金属形成的合金的热力学、表面化学和电子性质进行了系统研究,在此基础上预测Pt-V,Pt-Fe,Pt-Co,Pt-Ni,Pt-Cu,Pt-Zn,Pt-Mo,Pt-W等合金可能具有好的氧还原催化活性和稳定性. 所预期的大部分催化剂已有文献研究结果支持. 另外,Pt-Zn和Pt-Mo体系目前报道尚不多,值得进一步的细致研究.     

二元氯化物熔体中锂和钠离子析出电位的测定及去极化作用的研 究

本文利用I-V曲线法测定了锂和钠离子在二元混合氯化物体系(LiCl-KCl;NaCl-KCl)中的析出电位,为利用熔盐电解法制备低钠高纯铝-锂合金提供了理论依据。根据锂离子在铝阴极上产生的去极化值求出铝和锂发生合金化反应的热力学意义,提出二元合金类型与极化类型之间的经验关系。首次通过研究锂离子在铝合金电极上的去极化行为,发现某些第三合金元素的存在可以加强锂离子的去极化作用,为进一步制取低钠高纯三元铝-锂-M合金系列提供了参考。还研究了在氯化钾-氯化锂体系中,氯化锂浓度对锂离子在铝阴极上析出电位的影响,求出了氯化锂的平均活度系数。     

A new simulation model for electrochemical metal deposition

A new atomistic simulation model for electrochemical systems is presented. It combines microcanonical molecular dynamics for the electrode with stochastic dynamics for the solution, and allows the simulation of electrochemical deposition and dissolution for specific electrode potentials. As first applications the deposition of silver and platinum on Au(1 1 1) have been studied; both flat surfaces and surfaces with islands have been considered. The two systems behave quite differently: Ag on Au(1 1 1) grows layer by layer, while Pt forms a surface alloy on Au(1 1 1), which is followed by three-dimensional growth.     

Nickel-titanium alloy electrodes for stable amperometric detection of underivatized amino acids in anion-exchange chromatography

Nickel-titanium (Ni-Ti) alloy electrode was used as an electrochemical detector for the analysis of underivatized amino acids in flow systems. In strong alkaline solution, an oxide film on the Ni-Ti alloy electrode surface exhibited a high catalytic activity toward the oxidation of amino acids. Cyclic voltammetry experiments confirmed that electrogenerated Ni(III)O(OH) functioned as the key redox mediator associated with the oxidation of the amine group in amino acids. The electrochemical behavior of the Ni-Ti electrode in alkaline medium was very similar to the Ni electrode. However, the oxide film was found to be much stable on Ni-Ti than on Ni. Consequently, the Ni-Ti alloy electrode exhibited an excellent stability for constant-potential amperometric detection of amino acids in flow systems. For example, the relative standard deviation (R.S.D.) for the repetitive 100 injections of 50 muM (1.2 nmol) glycine over 10 h was less than 1%. It was postulated that the presence of Ti in the alloy stabilizes the microstructure of oxide layer on the electrode surface. The sensitivities of amino acids at the electrode were different, depending on their chemical structures. The detection limits obtained in a range from 0.9 pmol for arginine to 90.2 pmol for leucine and isoleucine. The Ni-Ti alloy electrodes have been demonstrated to be very suitable for the amperometric detection of underivatized amino acids in anion-exchange chromatography.     

Dependence of dissociation pressure upon doping level of Ti-doped sodium alanate--a possibility for "thermodynamic tailoring" of the system

Pressure-concentration isotherms have been recorded for NaAlH(4) with different doping levels of titanium. It is well known that titanium accelerates the hydrogenation and dehydrogenation reactions in this system. Our studies have shown that the titanium doping also significantly alters the thermodynamics of the system, which is demonstrated by the change of the dissociation pressure with doping level. This can be explained by changes in the systems energy by dilution of the TiAl-alloy present after doping: Such an alloy forms as a result of the doping reaction. Aluminum generated during the dehydrogenation reaction dilutes this alloy, which gives an additional contribution to the free energy of the system.     

NiCoB超细非晶合金的化学制备和热稳定性研究

用化学还原法制备了Ni－B、Co－B及不同含量的Ni－Co－B超细非晶态微粒．电感耦合等离子光谱（ICP）测定合金的组成表明：微粒中Ni与Co的含量可通过调节反应溶液中Ni与Co离子浓度来控制．X衍射（XRD）、透射电镜（TEM）及电子衍射证实合金是粒径约为20nm的非晶相球状颗粒．用示差量热法（DSC）考察了制备条件对非晶态合金热稳定性的影响．发现相同组成不同含量及不同条件下制得的样品其热稳定性均有差异．初步解释了引起这种差别的原因．从而揭示了非晶态合金结构的复杂性．     

MmB5贮氢合金的结构和性能

近十年未对AB5型合金的研究表明，某些多元取代的LaNi5基合金可作为MH／Ni电池的负极材料，且具有容量大，寿命长等优点[1，2]．LaNi5虽然具有吸放氢量较大、平台氢压平整和压力滞后小等优良性能，但不耐硷腐蚀、吸氢后易粉化，其氢化物的分解氢压较高，故不能作为负板材料．以Co部分地取代Ni可有效地降低氢化物的分解氢压·混合稀土（Mm）取代La，虽容量有所下降，但从原料成本上看是有益的．本工作试图从MmB5多元合金晶体结构的研究，来探讨Mm中La和Ce的相对含量对吸放氢性能和电化学容量的影响．1实验Mllin。合金样品由金属Ni，…     

Scanning Auger analysis for the clarification of oxidation and interdiffusion processes during laser ablation of YBa2Cu3O7-x on alloy/oxide substrates

Scanning Auger investigations are reported on layer systems consisting of a metallic substrate, an oxide buffer layer and the YBa₂Cu₃O_7?x (YBCO) high temperature superconductor. By bending the samples under UHV conditions the internal interfaces have been made accessible for the Auger analysis. The examination of the interfaces have shown that an oxidation of the substrate alloy had taken place during the deposition of the YBCO in spite of the buffer layer already being present. Additionally, segregated sulphur has been found on the substrate/buffer interface, which can lead to a loss of adhesion of the layer system. By line scan investigations on samples prepared by ball cratering a carbon enriched zone of approximately 50 nm thickness has been detected at the interface of buffer and YBCO.     

Thermodynamics of chemisorption: induced surface segregation in binary alloys

Numerical results are presented for the segregational behaviour in the hydrogen-adsorbed Ni_xCui_1-x alloy system in which the equilibria of adsorption and segregation are treated in a self-consistent manner. For the powdered systems the nickel atoms are found to segregate to the surface in the presence of H adatoms. In crystalline alloy systems the Cu atoms segregate to the surface, but the amount of Cu segregation in the presence of H adatoms is less than that for a clean alloy surface.     

Mg2Ni0.75Cu0.25-Mg1.76体系的合成及氢化过程的初步研究

Leilly^[1]、Rudmen^[2]和本研究组^[3]分别对Mg₂Ni-xMg,Mg₂Cu-xMg体系进行了研究,巳发现Mg₂Ni或Mg₂Cu的存在对镁的氢化,释氢过程有催化作用,并描述了二元合金Mg₂Ni,Mg₂Cu对Mg的吸、放氢过程的催化氢化、脱氢模型。但有关三元合金对纯镁的吸、放氢催化性能研究,至今未见报道。我们合成了在基质镁粒表面包覆Mg₂Ni_0.75Cu_0.25的新型材料,并研究此三元合金表面对所包覆的Mg核与H₂之间反应的影响。     

Influence of Pt Alloying on the Fluorescence of Fully Inorganic,Colloidal Gold Nanoclusters

Noble metal alloy nanoclusters (NCs) are interesting systems as the properties of two or more elements can be combined in one particle, leading to interesting fluorescence phenomena. However, previous studies have been exclusively performed on ligand-capped NCs from wet chemical synthesis. This makes it difficult to differentiate to which extent the fluorescence is affected by ligand-induced effects or the elemental composition of the metal core. In this work, we used laser fragmentation in liquids (LFL) to fabricate colloidal gold-rich bi-metallic AuPt NCs in the absence of organic ligands and demonstrate the suitability of this technique to produce molar fraction series of 1nm alloy NC. We found that photoluminescence of ligand-free NCs is not a phenomenon limited to Au. However, even minute amounts of Pt atoms in the AuPt NCs lead to quenching and red-shift of the fluorescence, which may be attributed to the altered surface charge density.     

A comparison of phosphorus and fluorine containing IL lubricants for steel on aluminium

Ionic liquids have been shown to be highly effective lubricants for a steel on aluminium system. This work shows that the chemistry of the anion and cation are critical in achieving maximum wear protection. The performance of the ILs containing a diphenylphosphate (DPP) anion all showed low wear, as did some of the tris(pentafluoroethyl)trifluorophosphate (FAP) and bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)amide (NTf(2)) anion containing ILs. However, in the case of the FAP and NTf(2) based systems, a cation dependence was observed, with relatively poor wear resistance obtained in the case of an imidazolium FAP and two pyrrolidinium NTf(2) salts, probably due to tribocorrosion caused by the fluorine reaction with the aluminium substrate. The systems exhibiting poor performance generally had a lower viscosity, which also impacts on their tribological properties. Those ILs that exhibited low wear were shown to have formed protective tribofilms on the aluminium alloy surface.     

Segregation of Sn in the binary CuSn and ternary CuSnSb alloy systems

Progression studies have been followed from Cu(111)‐ and Cu(100)Sn binaries to Cu(111)‐ and Cu(100)SnSb ternary‐alloy systems under the same experimental conditions. The segregation behaviour of Sn in the two orientations are explained. It is found that the kinetic segregation profiles of Sn in the ternary alloys shift to lower temperatures as compared to that in the binary. The Sn profile shift is mainly due to the decrease in the activation energy of Sn in the ternary systems. For a particular Cu orientation, the other segregation parameters that the Sn profiles depend on, like the pre‐exponential factor, segregation energy and the interaction coefficient, are found to be the same in the two systems. There is also a change in the equilibrium segregation profiles of Sn. In the ternary system, site competition between Sn and Sb causes the Sn to suffer exponential desegregation and eventual displacement from the surface. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

铜铁试剂的交流示波极谱滴定法研究

提出了用交流示波极谱滴定法测定铜合金中的铜和测定铜铁试剂的方法。该法快速、准确、终点直观。测定了铜合金中的铜,变动系数0.07％～0.17％。考察了紫外光照射下铜铁试剂的动力学行为。     

One-pot synthesis of hollow superparamagnetic CoPt nanospheres

Hollow metal nanospheres are of interest for a variety of academic and technological applications, including drug delivery, catalysis, plasmonics, and lightweight structural composites. Despite recent advances in synthesizing metal nanostructures with controlled morphologies, there are very few reports of hollow bimetallic nanospheres, although such systems promise to offer advantages over single-metal systems. Here, were report a one-pot synthetic strategy for accessing hollow CoPt nanospheres with a Co-Pt alloy structure. The approach utilizes an in situ Co template and exploits galvanic displacement reactions to selectively dissolve the Co core while depositing a Pt shell. The combination of reducing conditions and a polymer stabilizer appears to allow the Co and Pt to co-reduce and form a Co-Pt fcc alloy phase with a morphology that is templated by the sacrificial Co core. The hollow CoPt nanospheres, which show magnetic hysteresis at low temperatures, are thermally stable up to 300 degrees C. The approach, which adds to a growing toolbox of reactions that yield morphologically controlled magnetic CoPt and FePt nanomaterials, is likely to be general for a variety of alloy systems.     

Scanning Auger analysis for the clarification of oxidation and interdiffusion processes during laser ablation of YBa2Cu3O7-x on alloy/oxide substrates

Scanning Auger investigations are reported on layer systems consisting of a metallic substrate, an oxide buffer layer and the YBa₂Cu₃O_7–x (YBCO) high temperature superconductor. By bending the samples under UHV conditions the internal interfaces have been made accessible for the Auger analysis. The examination of the interfaces have shown that an oxidation of the substrate alloy had taken place during the deposition of the YBCO in spite of the buffer layer already being present. Additionally, segregated sulphur has been found on the substrate/buffer interface, which can lead to a loss of adhesion of the layer system. By line scan investigations on samples prepared by ball cratering a carbon enriched zone of approximately 50 nm thickness has been detected at the interface of buffer and YBCO.     

Qualitative identification of alloys by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy

Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy can be used to identify alloy types quickly and, in many cases, to distinguish between alloy systems within a certain alloy type. Characteristic X-rays of major components in an alloy are produced through excitation by an isotopic source. Ratios of the X-ray intensities of a pair of elements are plotted vs. ratios of the theoretical weight fractions of these elements. This provides a unique data point which is a function of the composition of the particular alloy system. In some cases, characteristic X-rays of minor constituents are used for total identification.