Publications related to Iron Age

Strong silicon oxide inclusions in iron

Andreas Mortensen, Léa Deillon, Alejandra Inés Slagter, Joris Pierre Everaerts

Oxide inclusions are ubiquitous in steel and are known to affect, generally in a negative sense, the mechanical performance of steel products. Micromechanical properties of those phases are therefore important, yet they have remained largely unexplored. We ...

2022

Hydration and durability of fast hardening binders incorporating supplementary cementitious materials

Sarra El Housseini

The use of supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) is widely considered the most promis-ing approach to reduce CO2 emissions relative to cement production. SCMs are not commonly present in binders used for special applications. On the other hand, due t ...

EPFL2022

Human mortality at extreme age

Anthony Christopher Davison, Léo Raymond-Belzile

We use a combination of extreme value statistics, survival analysis and computer-intensive methods to analyse the mortality of Italian and French semi-supercentenarians. After accounting for the effects of the sampling frame, extreme-value modelling leads ...

ROYAL SOC2021

Iron incorporation in synthetic precipitated calcium silicate hydrates

David Lyndon Emsley, Paul Bowen, Brennan James Walder, Jirawan Siramanont

Effect of Fe3+ on the precipitation of synthetic calcium silicate hydrates (C-S-H) under controlled conditions has been evaluated. Using extremely basic either initial calcium nitrate or sodium silicate solutions (pH > 11), incipient formation of ferrihydr ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2021

Development of physical and mechanical properties of a cold-curing structural adhesive in a dry bridge environment

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Maria Savvilotidou

The effect of physical aging and continuation of curing on the physical and mechanical properties of a commercial cold-curing structural epoxy adhesive used in bridge construction has been investigated during the first year. Since adhesive bridge joints ar ...

2017

Effects of aging in dry environment on physical and mechanical properties of a cold-curing structural epoxy adhesive for bridge construction

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Maria Savvilotidou

The effect of physical aging and continuation of curing on the physical and mechanical properties of a commercial cold-curing structural epoxy adhesive used in bridge construction has been investigated during the first year. Since adhesive bridge joints ar ...

Elsevier2017

Durability and fatigue performance of a typical cold-curing structural adhesive in bridge construction

Maria Savvilotidou

The science of adhesives and adhesion for structural connections has undergone significant development during the last few decades - and successfully so in a wide variety of industries. Recent applications of structural bonding are being adopted in the con ...

EPFL2017

Recent developments of iron pincer complexes for catalytic applications

Xile Hu, Gerald Bauer

Iron catalysis is attractive for organic synthesis because iron is inexpensive, abundant, and non-toxic. To control the activity and stability of an iron center, a large number of iron pincer complexes have been synthesized. Many such complexes exhibit exc ...

Chinese Chemical Soc2016

Applications Of Mechanical Spectroscopy To Industrial Materials

Robert Schaller

The paper is a review of original results, which were obtained by mechanical spectroscopy in the development of industrial materials, such as grey cast iron (damping capacity), aluminum alloys (recrystallization), nickel alloys (grain boundary embrittlemen ...

Polska Akad Nauk, Polish Acad Sciences, Inst Metall & Mater Sci Pas2015

Iron Pincer Complexes as Catalysts and Intermediates in Alkyl Aryl Kumada Coupling Reactions

Rosario Scopelliti, Xile Hu, Matthew Wodrich, Gerald Bauer

Iron-catalyzed alkylaryl Kumada coupling has developed into an efficient synthetic method, yet its mechanism remains vague. Here, we apply a bis(oxazolinylphenyl)amido pincer ligand (Bopa) to stabilize the catalytically active Fe center, resulting in isola ...

American Chemical Society2015

Mossbauer studies of the peculiar magnetism in parent compounds of the iron-based superconductors

Janusz Andrzej Karpinski

A review of the magnetism in the parent compounds of the iron-based superconductors is given based on the transmission Mossbauer spectroscopy of Fe-57 and Eu-151. It was found that the 3d magnetism is of the itinerant character with varying admixture of th ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2015

Iron Complexes for Hydrogen Activation and Catalytic Hydrogenation

Simona Mazza

Inspired by Nature several groups have developed structural and functional iron complexes mimicking the active site of the iron-hydrogenases, which show high reactivity in the H2 cleavage. Usually pendant bases have been incorporated onto families of Fe co ...

EPFL2015

A fast and reproducible method to quantify magnetic nanoparticle biodistribution

Heinrich Hofmann, Usawadee Sakulkhu, Lionel André Maurizi

The quantification of nanoparticles, particularly superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs), both in vitro and in vivo has become highly important in recent years. Some methods, such as induced coupled plasma (ICP) spectroscopy and UV-visible che ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

First pulse technique for brushless DC motor standstill position detection based on iron B-H hysteresis

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Omar Scaglione

This paper introduces a promising technique, called the first-pulse technique, for detecting the rotor position of a brushless DC motor at standstill. The technique is based on the B-H hysteresis characteristics of the stator iron. Depending on the rotor p ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

A Five-Coordinate Iron Center in the Active Site of [Fe]-Hydrogenase: Hints from a Model Study

Rosario Scopelliti, Xile Hu, Dafa Chen

The synthesis, structure, and reactivity of a five-coordinate model complex of [Fe]-hydrogenase are described. The work suggests that the iron center in [Fe]-hydrogenases could be five-coordinate in the resting state. ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2011

NMR Study of Ligand Exchange and Electron Self-Exchange between Oxo-Centered Trinuclear Clusters [Fe3(μ3-O)(μ-O2CR)6(4-R´py)3]+/0

André Merbach, Lothar Helm

The syntheses, single crystal X-ray structures, and magnetic properties of the homometallic mu(3)-oxo trinuclear clusters Fe-3(mu(3)-O)(mu-O2CCH3)(6)(4-Phpy)(3) (1) and F(e)3(mu(3)-O)(mu-O(2)CAd)(6)(4-Mepy)(3) (2) are reported (Ad = adamanta ...

American Chemical Society2011

Toward Understanding the Chloroquine Action at the Molecular Level in Antimalarial Therapy - X-ray Absorption Studies in Acetic Add Solution

Andrzej Sienkiewicz

The local atomic structure around the central iron of the synthetic soluble analog of malarial pigment in acetic acid solution and with addition of chloroquine as found by X-ray absorption spectroscopy is reported. The special interest was drawn to the axi ...

2011

Probing the Electronic Structure of the Hemoglobin Active Center in Physiological Solutions

Majed Chergui

Soft-x-ray absorption spectroscopy at the L2,3 edge of the iron center in bovine Hb and hemin under physiol. conditions is reported for the first time. Spectra of the same compds. in solid form are presented for comparison. Striking differences in the elec ...

2009

PM motor sensorless position detection based on iron B-H local hysteresis

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Omar Scaglione

A sensorless position detection technique for a permanent magnet (PM) motor with non-salient rotor is presented. It is shown that the phase self inductances and resistances measured at higher frequencies vary slightly with the rotor position. The origin of ...

2009

Mechanism of Pyridine-Ligand Exchanges at the Different Labile Sites of 3d Heterometallic and Mixed Valence μ3-oxo Trinuclear Clusters

André Merbach, Rosario Scopelliti, Lothar Helm, Fabrice Riblet

The syntheses and single crystal X-ray structural analysis of five novel hetero- and homometallic μ3-oxo trinuclear cluster with the formula [FeIII2MII(μ3-O)(μ-O2CCH3)6(4-Rpy)3] · x(4-Rpy) · y(CH3CN) where R ) Ph for 1(Fe2Mn),2(Fe2Fe), 3(Fe2Co), 4(Fe2Ni) a ...

2008