Partially hydrogenated fats are manufactured by taking cheap and usually rancid oils from soy, corn, canola and cottonseed and mixing them with particles
of nickel oxide.
The nickelate that the Argonne team has created is a quasi-two-dimensional trilayer compound, meaning that it consists of three layers
of nickel oxide that are separated by spacer layers of praseodymium oxide.
The trick worked because relevant phonon peaks can be seen with much better resolution in the spectrum
of nickel oxide under ultraviolet laser excitation,» Balandin added.
Not exact matches
The focus
of this investigation is a hybrid material consisting
of a thin
nickel film on a vanadium
oxide substrate; this hybrid material exhibits magnetic properties unlike any other magnetic material.
The most important
of these are two layers
of tungsten
oxide and
nickel oxide, both about a third
of a micrometer thick.
Wang and his colleagues discovered that
nickel - iron
oxide, which is cheap and easy to produce, is actually more stable than some commercial catalysts made
of precious metals.
To see the way the lithium - ions reacted with the
nickel oxide, the scientists used a suite
of custom - written software to digitally reconstruct the three - dimensional nanostructures with single - nanometer resolution.
«Our water splitter is unique, because we only use one catalyst,
nickel - iron
oxide, for both electrodes,» said graduate student Haotian Wang, lead author
of the study.
«Lead titanate likely would not have been the first choice
of most materials scientists because its structure is so dissimilar to
nickel oxide,» Isayev said.
«Mysteries
of a promising spintronic material revealed:
Nickel oxide holds promise for spintronic devices.»
«We hope that our results will contribute to better understanding
of mechanisms
of spin wave interactions with the crystal lattice vibrations, and energy loss channels in
nickel oxide devices,» Balandin said.
This
nickel oxide compound does not superconduct, said John Mitchell, an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and associate director
of the laboratory's Materials Science Division, who led the project, which combined crystal growth, X-ray spectroscopy, and computational theory.
A team
of researchers at the U.S. Department
of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has identified a
nickel oxide compound as an unconventional but promising candidate material for high - temperature superconductivity.
When applied to photoanodes, the
nickel oxide film far exceeded the performance
of other similar films — including one that Lewis's group created just last year.
The team has shown that its
nickel oxide film is compatible with many different kinds
of semiconductor materials, including silicon, indium phosphide, and cadmium telluride.
When applied to semiconducting materials such as silicon, the
nickel oxide film prevents rust buildup and facilitates an important chemical process in the solar - driven production
of fuels such as methane or hydrogen.
The new device relies on a metallic blend
of nickel and
nickel oxide nanostructures, which help split water into oxygen and hydrogen fuel.
These new catalysts are produced through the simultaneous control
of the: 1) composition, 2) size and 3) crystallinity
of metal
oxides of earth - abundant elements such as iron, cobalt and
nickel.
Because
nickel oxide is transparent, the researchers could shoot a laser pulse lasting just a trillionth
of a second through it to reach the top
nickel iron layer.
Nickels M, Xie JP, Cobb J, Gore JC and Pham W. Functionalization
of Iron
Oxide Nanoparticles With a Versatile Epoxy Amine Linker.
Researchers at the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department
of Chemistry, University
of Southern California, have developed a new catalyst based on
nickel oxide on magnesium
oxide (NiO / MgO) that is effective for the bi-reforming with steam and CO2 (combined steam and dry reforming)
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To make the
nickel oxide coating, the researchers used a technique which involves smashing atoms
of argon into a pellet
of nickel atoms at high speed.
Stable solar - driven oxidation
of water by semiconducting photoanodes protected by transparent catalytic
nickel oxide films.
In accordance with the standards
of the day, Inco emitted refinery dust (
nickel oxide) into the air from a giant smoke stack, much
of which settled on its neighbours.
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