Optimized microwave absorption properties by tailoring the morphology of carbon coated TiC nanoparticles by N2 pressure

Increasing the dielectric loss capacity plays an important role in enhancing the electromagnetic absorption performance of materials. It remains a challenge to simultaneously introduce multiple types of dielectric losses in the material. In this work, we show that the atomic and interfacial dipole polarizations can be simultaneously enhanced by substituting N species into both carbon coating layers and bulk TiC lattices of a core-shell TiC@C material. Additionally, substitution of N species results more exposed TiC(111) facets and refines the TiC grain sizes in the bulk material, which is beneficial for enhancing the scattering of the external electromagnetic waves. The maximum reflection loss of the N substituted TiC@C material is measured as ?47.1 dB with an effective absorbing bandwidth of 4.83 GHz at 1.9 mm, which illustrates a valuable way to further tuning the electromagnetic absorption performance of this type of materials.     

Electronic regulation and core-shell hybrids engineering of palm-leaf-like NiFe/Co(PO3)2 bifunctional electrocatalyst for efficient overall water splitting

Constructing efficient and stable bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting remains a challenge because of the sluggish reaction kinetics. Herein, the core-shell hybrids composed of Co(PO₃)₂ nanorod core and NiFe alloy shell in situ grown on nickel foam (NiFe/Co(PO₃)₂@NF) are synthesized. Owing to the hierarchical palm-leaf-like structures and strong adhesion between NiFe alloys, Co(PO₃)₂ and substrates, the catalyst provides a large surface area and rapid charge transfer, which facilitates active sites exposure and conductivity enhancement. The interfacial effect in the NiFe/Co(PO₃)₂ core-shell structure modulates the electronic structure of the active sites around the boundary, thereby boosting the intrinsic activity. Benefiting from the stable structure, the durability of the catalyst is not impaired by the inevitable surface reconfiguration. The NiFe/Co(PO₃)₂@NF electrode presents a low cell voltage of 1.63 V to achieve 10 mA cm^?2 and manifests durability for up to 36 h at different current densities.     

Development of Cu particles and Cu core-shell particles reinforced Al composite

Copper particles were incorporated and retained in elemental state in an aluminium matrix by friction stir processing thereby producing a non-equilibrium particulate composite. The processed Al–Cu_p composite exhibited improved strength with significantly high ductility. The composite was stable up to a temperature of more than 300°C. Thermal exposure at 350°C for more than 10 min led to diffusion of Cu atoms into the Al matrix forming a core-shell type structure in the Cu particles and thus producing an Al–Cu core-shell composite. The shell consists of multiple layers, the thickness of which was controllable.     

Novel core-shell-like Ni-supported hierarchical beta zeolite catalysts on bioethanol steam reforming

Hierarchical-Beta zeolites have been hydrothermally synthesized by adding a new gemini organic surfactant. The used gemini surfactant play the role of a “pore-forming agents” on the mesoscale, on the same time, providing alkaline environment for the system. With this hierarchical Beta zeolite as the core support, we successfully prepared a shell layer of Ni-containing (22 wt%) petal-like core-shell-like catalyst and applied it to bioethanol steam reforming. At the reaction temperature of 350 °C–550 °C, the conversion rate of ethanol and the selectivity of hydrogen were always above 85% and 70%. After reaction of 100 h on stream at 400 °C, there were not obvious inactivation could be observed on NiNPs/OH-MBeta catalyst.     

Plasmonic-excitonic multi-hybrid glass-based nanocomposites incorporating Ag plus core-shell CdSe/CdS and alloyed CdSxSe1−x nanoparticles

Successful fabrication of glass-based hybrid nanocomposites (GHNCs) incorporating Ag, core-shell CdSe/CdS and CdS_xSe_1?x nanoparticles (NPs) is herein reported. Both metallic (Ag) and semiconductor (CdSe/CdS) NPs were pre-synthesized, suspended in colloids and added into the sol-gel reaction medium which was used to fabricate the GHNCs. During fabrication of the nanocomposites a fraction (20–60%) of core-shell CdSe/CdS NPs was alloyed into CdS_xSe_1?x (0.20 < x < 0.35) NPs without changing morphology. Modulation of in situ alloying is possible via the relative content of organics added into the sol-gel protocol. Within colloids Ag (core-shell CdSe/CdS) NPs presented average diameter and polydispersity index of 49.5 nm (4.2 nm) and 0.41 (0.21), respectively. On the other hand, the Ag (core-shell CdSe/CdS) NPs’ average diameter and polydispersity index assessed from the GHNCs were respectively 51.5 nm (4.1 nm) and 0.43 (0.25), revealing negligible aggregation of the nanophases within the glass template. The new GHNCs herein introduced presented two independent excitonic transitions associated to homogenously dispersed semiconductor NPs, peaking around 420 nm (core-shell CdSe/CdS) and 650 nm (CdS_xSe_1?x) and matching the plasmonic resonance (Ag NPs) in the 400–500 nm range. We envisage that the new GHNCs represent very promising candidates for superior light manipulation while illuminated with multiple laser beams in quantum interference-based devices.     

Fabrication of Fe-, Ni- and FeNi-coated Al2O3 core-shell microspheres by heterogeneous precipitation

The precursors with NiCO₃·2Ni(OH)₂·2H₂O-, Fe₂O₃·nH₂O-, or both of NiCO₃·2Ni(OH)₂·2H₂O- and Fe₂O₃·nH₂O-coated alumina microspheres were prepared, respectively, by the aqueous heterogeneous precipitation using metal salts, ammonium hydro-carbonate and -Al₂O₃ micropowders as the starting materials. Subsequently, magnetic metallic Ni-, -Fe- and γ-FeNi-coated alumina core-shell structural microspheres were successfully obtained by thermal reduction of the as-prepared precursors at 700 °C for 2 h, respectively. Optimized precipitation processing parameters of the concentration of alumina micropowders (15 g/L), the rate of adding reactants (5 mL/min) and pH value were determined by a trial and error method. Powders of the precursors and the resultant metal (Ni, -Fe, γ-FeNi alloy)-coated alumina micropowders were characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The experimental results show that it is possible to adjust metal coating thicknesses and fabricate multilayer structured metal/ceramics core-shell microspherical powder materials and these materials may be applied for high performance of functional materials and devices.     

核壳乳液聚合中甲基丙烯酸用量对印花制品的影响

采用核壳乳液聚合法合成涂料印花粘合剂，考察了甲基丙烯酸(MAC)用量的改变对印花产品的牢度和色光的影响：在核中，当MAC的用量分别为0．0g，0．2g，0．4g，0．6g时，干摩牢度分别为25，2．5 ，3,0，3．5，色光由暗变亮；在壳中当MAC的用量分别为0．0g，0.2g，0．4g，0．6g时，干摩牢度分别为2.5，2．5 ，3．0，3．5，色光变亮，对得色量和鲜艳度影响不大。     

核壳型聚苯乙烯/聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯复合乳液的制备

以过硫酸铵(APS)为引发剂,用种子乳液聚合方法,合成出以聚苯乙烯(PSt)为核, 聚甲基丙烯酸甲酯(PMMA)为壳的复合乳液。透射电子显微镜观察了核壳复合乳胶粒的形态,光散射粒径分布仪(PCS)测量胶乳粒径大小及其分布。最终成功地制得了核壳型PS/PMMA复合乳液,所得复合乳胶粒粒径大小在60～90nm左右,且单分散性较好。     

核壳型乳液聚合研究进展

综述了近年来核/壳结构聚合物乳液的聚合工艺、性能及核/壳结构的表征方法进行,讨论了影响核/壳结构聚合物乳胶粒子形态的各种因素。     

水性聚氨酯/丙烯酸酯复合乳液的合成及其性能研究

通过自由基乳液聚合,合成具有核壳结构的水性聚氨酯/丙烯酸酯复合乳液(PUA)。用IR、DSC和TEM对产物结构进行了表征,证明水性聚氨酯(PU)与丙烯酸酯单体在实验条件下发生了共聚反应;考察了PVA乳液及其胶膜耐热性和耐溶剂性。结果表明具有核壳结构的PUA乳液的各项性能均比水性聚氨酯有明显提高。