Enhanced coercivity in sponge magnets with three dimensionally ordered nanopores

Nanoporous magnets are new promising materials particularly useful in biological assays and ion separations. This letter deals with a simple method for making porous magnets composed of cobalt ferrite, where polymer colloidal spheres were used as sacrificial templates. Compared with the bulk congener the porous cobalt ferrite shows enhancements in coercive field and magnetization, which could be associated with the presence of nanopores ordered three dimensionally. Using the sponge magnet complete removal of magnetic Cu and Fe ions was achieved while partial removal was observed with porous silicate having the same size of nanopores.     

Synthesis of Mg-Al and Zn-Al-layered double hydroxide nanocrystals using laser ablation in water

In this paper, we report our results on the synthesis of Mg-Al and Zn-Al-layered double hydroxides using the laser ablation in the liquid technique. To prepare these layered double hydroxides (LDH) we first began with the laser generation of a Mg (or zinc) target submerged in deionized water and then ablated an aluminum target submerged in the previously prepared Mg-deionized water suspensions (Mg-dw) to produce Mg-Al LDH and in Zn-dw to prepare Zn-Al LDH. In these ablation tests, the Mg ablation duration was selected to vary from 5 to 60 min, while the Al ablation duration was kept constant at 30 min for all samples. The generated Mg-Al LDH was a gel-like and well crystallized nanoparticles of a rod-like shape and were arranged in a well-organized pattern. When the Mg ablation duration between 25 and 35 min, the synthesized nanocrystals were stoichiometric with a formula of Mg₆Al₂(OH)₁₈4.5(H₂O), the interlayer distance (d_(0 0 3)-spacing) was 7.8 Å and the average grain size was 8.0 nm. The synthesized Zn-Al LDH revealed various lamellar thin plate-like nanostructures of hexagonal morphologies. The average diameters of these structures was about 500 nm and the thickness of a single layer was approximately about 6.0 nm. The XRD diffraction peaks were indexed in hexagonal lattice with a_o=3.07 Å and c_o=15.12 Å. These indexes were (0 0 2), (0 0 4), and (0 0 8) and the corresponding interlayer distances, d-spacing (Å), were 7.56 (0 0 2), 3.782 (0 0 4), and 1.891 (0 0 8), respectively.     

尺寸效应对Al纳米线凝固行为的影响

结合EAM镶嵌原子作用势, 通过经典的分子动力学模拟研究了不同截面尺寸Al纳米线在两种冷却速率下的凝固行为, 并采用键对分析技术探讨了相变过程中原子团簇的演化情况. 结果表明:Al纳米线的最终结构不仅与冷却速率有关, 还呈现出明显的尺寸效应. 在较快的冷却速率下, 五种截面尺寸的Al纳米线均得到了多壳螺旋结构; 而当冷却速率降低以后, 除了N₃纳米线发生了断裂以外, 其余纳米线的结构随着截面尺寸的增加, 逐渐从多壳螺旋结构经由类-六边形多壳结构最终过渡到稳定的晶态结构.     

Magnetic and magnetostrictive behavior of Dy3+ doped CoFe2O4 single crystals grown by flux method

We studied the effect of Dy³⁺ content on the magnetic properties of cobalt ferrite single crystal. The single crystals of CoFe_1.9Dy_0.1O₄ were grown by the flux method using Na₂B₄O₇.10 H₂O (Borax) as a solvent (flux). The black and shiny single crystals were obtained as a product. The X-ray diffraction analysis at room temperature confirmed the spinel cubic structure with lattice constant a=8.42 Å of the single crystals. The compositional analysis endorses the presence of constituents Co, Fe and Dy elements after sintering at 1300 °C within the final structure. The magnetic hysteresis measurements at various temperatures viz. 10 K, 100 K, 200 K and 300 K reveal the soft ferrimagnetic nature of the single crystal than that of for pure CoFe₂O₄. The observed saturation magnetization (M_s) and coercivity (H_c) are found to be lower than that of pure CoFe₂O₄ single crystal. The magnetostriction (λ) measurement was carried out along the [001] direction. The magnetic measurements lead to conclude that the present single crystals can be used for magneto-optic recording media.     

Exact Solitary Water Waves with Vorticity

The solitary water wave problem is to find steady free surface waves which approach a constant level of depth in the far field. The main result is the existence of a family of exact solitary waves of small amplitude for an arbitrary vorticity. Each solution has a supercritical parameter value and decays exponentially at infinity. The proof is based on a generalized implicit function theorem of the Nash–Moser type. The first approximation to the surface profile is given by the “KdV” equation. With a supercritical value of the surface tension coefficient, a family of small amplitude solitary waves of depression with subcritical parameter values is constructed for an arbitrary vorticity.     

Controlling the spectrum of high-power terahertz radiation from a laser-driven plasma wave

Generation of strong THz waves is a very important and difficult research issue. We performed particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation studies to investigate the possibility of powerful THz generation and spectrum controllability by using a laser-driven plasma wave. Our results show that it is possible to produce spectrum-controllable high-power (>1 MV/cm) THz waves by manipulating the plasma density profiles. This method may provide a good way for coherent high-power THz radiation sources, of which the spectrum ranges from a narrow bandwidth to a wide bandwidth.     

Improvement and performance testing of melting system for measurement of trace elements in firn core drilled at NEEM site,Greenland

A melting system was improved for measurement of trace elements in a firn core drilled at the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) site (77.45°N, 51.06°W). The melting heads of the melting system were specifically constructed with fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP)-coated copper (type A) and pure nickel (type B) to reduce percolation of melted samples. Firn core sections with densities in the range of ~0.76–0.86 g cm^?3 (depth interval: ~58.10–88.83 m) and ~0.56–0.76 g cm^?3 (depth interval: ~17.32–58.10 m) were successfully decontaminated by the melting system with type A and B melting heads, respectively, as verified by the volume ratios of melted samples from inner and outer zones and video recorded during the melting procedures. Systematic performance tests of the type A melting head melter were performed using artificial ice cores. The procedural blanks and detection limits of V, Cr, Co, Rb, Cd, Ba, Tl, Th and U were generally lower than those in previous studies, whereas the levels of Mn, Sr and Pb were similar to those reported elsewhere. The concentration ratios of these elements from inner and outer zones of the melting head indicated that the melting system had good decontamination efficiency. Finally, the concentrations of elements in the NEEM firn core measured following mechanical removal of the outer layer with chisels and the type A melting head melter showed a good agreement with each other.     

Développement par déplacement sur échangeurs d'Ions séparation de plus de deux ions

In the separation of several substances by displacement development, the minimum distance is calculated that the band must travel to obtain a separation of the solutes into zones.The method has been applied to the separation of lithium, sodium, ammonium and potassium ions on Dowex-50 resin, using calcium ions as the developer.