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Deposition and nanotribological characterization of Sub-100-nm thick protective Ti-based coatings for miniature applications
(2011)
Ti-based protective thin films with thicknesses below 100 nm, intended for miniature applications were deposited using physical vapor deposition magnetron sputtering. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy, ...
Needle grass array of nanostructured nickel cobalt sulfide electrode for clean energy generation
(2018)
Significant efforts have been focused on the search of earth-abundant elements to solve growing energy issues and to provide bifunctional behavior for both hydrogen and oxygen evolution reaction. Mixed transition metals ...
Theory-guided metal-decoration of nanoporous carbon for hydrogen storage applications
(2018)
The current paper presents a combined ab initio and experimental study of H2 adsorption on carbon. Adsorption energetics of a H2 molecule on pristine graphene were obtained for various molecule orientations, showing that ...
Novel combustion synthesis of carbon foam‑aluminum fluoride nanocomposite materials
(2018)
The facile, rapid and bulk production of composite materials consisting of carbon nanostructures doped with metal-based compounds has been a significant challenge for various research areas where such types of materials ...
Bimetallic diffusion modeling and temperature regulation during ball milling
(2018)
This work establishes a computationally efficient model of temperature and diffusion dynamics in ball milled bimetallic Ni-Al particulates. Mechanical contact conditions between adjacent bimetallic domains and temperature ...
Thermostructural observation and adaptive control of fractal structure in ball-milled materials
(2018)
This research introduces dynamic modeling and real-time control of fractal structure in particulate materials fabricated by the ball milling process, specifically addressing challenges of unavailable real-time non-destructive ...
Adaptive VN/Ag nanocomposite coatings with lubricious behavior from 25 to 1000 °c
(2010)
A two-phase nanocomposite coating that consists of inclusions of silver in a vanadium nitride matrix (VN/Ag) was investigated as a potential adaptive coating with a reduced friction coefficient from 25 to 1000 °C. This ...
Mechanics and energetics modeling of ball-milled metal foil and particle structures
(2017)
The reported research establishes a semi-analytical computational predictive model of fractal microstructure in ball-milled metal foils and powder particulates, with emphasis on its transformation mechanics via an energy-based ...
Exothermic reaction characteristics of continuously ball-milled Al/Ni powder compacts
(2013)
Self-propagating reactions in compacted pellets of continuously low-energy ball-milled aluminium (Al) and nickel (Ni) powders at a composition corresponding to AlNi3 were investigated. The formation of a bi-modal structure ...
Spark ignitable ball milled powders of Al and Ni at NiAl composition
(2014)
Low-energy ball milling of aluminum and nickel particles with an overall composition corresponding to the NiAl intermetallic phase was performed up to milling durations of 13 h. The milled powders and cold-compacted pellets ...