Publications related to Zirconium dioxide

Impact of Annealing on ZrO2 Nanotubes for Photocatalytic Application

This work aims to study the structural, optical, and photocatalytic properties of ZrO2 nanotubes (NTs) that have been synthesized using the electrochemical anodization method. The structural and morphological characteristics of unannealed and annealed (400 ...

MDPI2023

Charge multipole correlations and order in Cs2TaCl6

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Ivica Zivkovic, Jian Rui Soh, Jana Pásztorová

We examine the role of charge, structural, and spin degrees of freedom in the previously poorly understood phase transition in the 5d1 transition-metal double perovskite Cs2TaCl6 using a combination of computational and experimental techniques. Our heat ca ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Hot rocks: Constraining the thermal conditions of the Mistastin Lake impact melt deposits using zircon grain microstructures

Cyril Cayron

The production of superheated melt during hypervelocity impact events has been proposed to be a common occurrence on terrestrial planetary bodies. Recent direct evidence of superheated impact melt temperatures exceeding > 2370 degrees C from the Kamestasti ...

ELSEVIER2022

Motile dislocations knead odd crystals into whorls

Sofia Magkiriadou, Alexis Poncet

The competition between thermal fluctuations and potential forces governs the stability of matter in equilibrium, in particular the proliferation and annihilation of topological defects. However, driving matter out of equilibrium allows for a new class of ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Evidence of extensive lunar crust formation in impact melt sheets 4,330 Myr ago

Cyril Cayron

Accurately constraining the formation and evolution of the lunar magnesian suite is key to understanding the earliest periods of magmatic crustal building that followed accretion and primordial differentiation of the Moon. However, the origin and evolution ...

2020

Evolution of the Morphology Near Triple-Phase Boundaries in Ni–Yttria Stabilized Zirconia Electrodes Upon Cathodic Polarization

Jan Van Herle, Marco Cantoni, Guillaume Jeanmonod, Lucie Navratilova, Arata Nakajo, Priscilla Caliandro, Giorgio Rinaldi

Microstructural changes in Ni–yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) near the YSZ electrolyte were examined by three-dimensional (3D) electron microscopy after electrolysis and fuel cell operation up to 10,700 h and 15,000 h, respectively. The depletion of Ni an ...

2020

Tribological and tribocorrosion behavior of nickel sliding against oxide ceramics

Stefano Mischler, Anna Neus Igual Muñoz, Shoufan Cao, Junxiao Du

Nickel is widely used as a coating material in electroplating because of its good corrosion and wear resistance even at high temperature. Tribocorrosion has been identified as one of the main degradation mechanisms of nickel. This study evaluated the tribo ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Structural and microstructural studies on SiC-SiO2 ceramic composites

Ho-Yun Lee

In this study, SiC ceramic substrates were prepared with 99.5% silicon carbide powders which were came from waste silicon mud during the manufacturing process of solar cells. It is found that a SiO2 layer with 50 nm in thickness is present on the SiC surfa ...

2019

Effect of Thermal Cycling on the Structural Evolution of Methylammonium Lead Iodide Monitored around the Phase Transition Temperatures

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Alla Arakcheeva, Gaétan Charles Antoine Giriat, Anastasiia Glushkova, Konstantins Mantulnikovs, Konstantin Semeniuk

Optoelectronic devices and solar cells based on organometallic hybrid perovskites have to operate over a broad temperature range, which may contain their structural phase transitions. For instance, the temperature of 330 K, associated with the tetragonal-c ...

2019

Local structural investigation of hafnia-zirconia polymorphs in powders and thin films by X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Reinis Ignatans

Despite increasing attention for the recently found ferro- and antiferroelectric properties, the polymorphism in hafnia- and zirconia-based thin films is still not sufficiently understood. In the present work, we show that it is important to have a good qu ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Fretting corrosion between bone and calcium phosphate-calcium titanate coatings

Stefano Mischler, Adriana Esguerra Arce

Biocompatibility is one of the biggest challenges for biomaterials development. This issue arises in the case of coatings. Calcium phosphate (CP) coatings are currently used to cover femoral stem implants, while calcium titanate (CT) has also been proposed ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2018

Cubic zirconia in >2370◦C impact melt records Earth’s hottest crust

Cyril Cayron

Bolide impacts influence primordial evolution of planetary bodies because they can cause instantaneous melting and vaporization of both crust and impactors. Temperatures reached by impact-generated silicate melts are unknown because meteorite impacts are e ...

Elsevier2017

Development and characterization of electrochromic oxide and ion conductor deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering

Andreas Schueler, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard, Djamel Eddine Mansour

In order to modulate the solar gains of a building, electrochromic windows can be used. To improve their durability, inorganic solid state electrolytes are considered. This work reports on the investigation of tungsten trioxide (WO3) and lithium phosphorou ...

Elsevier2017

In situ core-level and valence-band photoelectron spectroscopy of reactively sputtered tungsten oxide films

Andreas Schueler, Anna Krammer, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard

In this paper, we study tungsten oxides deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering. The total working pressure during deposition was varied in order to obtain different morphology. The effects on the electronic properties and chemical composition were stud ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Spin and orbital disordering by hole doping in Pr1-xCaxVO3

Philip Pattison

High-resolution powder x-ray diffraction and single-crystal neutron diffraction were used to investigate the crystal structure and magnetic ordering of the compound Pr1-xCax VO3 (0

Amer Physical Soc2016

Hydrothermal Synthesis of SrTiO3: Role of Interfaces

Andrea Testino, Agnese Carino, Paolo Nanni

The hydrothermal synthesis of SrTiO3 in a Sr(OH)(2)/NaOH solution by reaction of four different single crystalline titanium precursors (anatase, rutile, sodium titanate, and hydrogen titanate) having the same nanowire morphology was investigated under stag ...

American Chemical Society2015

Reactive friction stir processing of AA 5052-TiO2 nanocomposite: process-microstructure-mechanical characteristics

Friction stir processing (FSP) is a solid state route with a capacity of preparing fine grained nanocomposites from metal sheets. In this work, we employed this process to finely distribute TiO2 nanoparticles throughout an Al-Mg alloy, aiming to enhance me ...

Maney Publishing2015

In-situ structural investigations of ferroelasticity in soft and hard rhombohedral and tetragonal PZT

Dragan Damjanovic

Despite the technological importance of hard and soft PZT, Pb(Zr,Ti)O3, ceramics, the mechanisms of ferroelectric hardening and softening remain widely discussed in the literature. The hardening and softening phenomena have traditionally been investigated ...

American Institute of Physics2015

A new class of chiral materials hosting magnetic skyrmions beyond room temperature

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Jonathan White

Skyrmions, topologically protected vortex-like nanometric spin textures in magnets, have been attracting increasing attention for emergent electromagnetic responses and possible technological applications for spintronics. In particular, metallic magnets wi ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Critical scattering of synchrotron radiation in lead zirconate-titanate with low titanium concentrations

Alexander Tagantsev

Diffuse scattering in the lead zirconate-titanate single crystal with a titanium concentration of 0.7 at % has been studied by the synchrotron radiation scattering method. Measurements have been performed both in the vicinity of the Brillouin zone center a ...

Maik Nauka/Interperiodica/Springer2015