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Investigation Of Phase Composition And Nanoscale Microstructure Of High-Energy Ball-Milled Mgcu Sample, Zongqing Ma, Yongchang Liu, Liming Yu, Qi Cai Jan 2012

Investigation Of Phase Composition And Nanoscale Microstructure Of High-Energy Ball-Milled Mgcu Sample, Zongqing Ma, Yongchang Liu, Liming Yu, Qi Cai

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

The ball milling technique has been successfully applied to the synthesis of various materials such as equilibrium intermetallic phases, amorphous compounds, nanocrystalline materials, or metastable crystalline phases. However, how the phase composition and nanoscale microstructure evolute during ball milling in various materials is still controversial due to the complex mechanism of ball milling, especially in the field of solid-state amorphization caused by ball milling. In the present work, the phase evolution during the high-energy ball milling process of the Mg and Cu (atomic ratio is 1:1) mixed powder was investigated. It was found that Mg firstly reacts with Cu, forming …


High Field (14 T) Magneto Transport Of Sm/Prfeaso, R S. Meena, Shiva Kumar Singh, Anand Pal, Anuj Kumar, R Jha, K V.R Rao, Yi Du, Xiaolin Wang, V P. Awana Jan 2012

High Field (14 T) Magneto Transport Of Sm/Prfeaso, R S. Meena, Shiva Kumar Singh, Anand Pal, Anuj Kumar, R Jha, K V.R Rao, Yi Du, Xiaolin Wang, V P. Awana

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We report high field magneto transport of Sm/PrFeAsO. Below spin density wave transition (TSDW), the magneto-resistance (MR) of Sm/PrFeAsO is positive and increasing with decreasing temperature. The MR of SmFeAsO is found to be 16%, whereas it is 21.5% in the case of PrFeAsO, at 2.5K under applied magnetic field of 14 Tesla (T). In the case of SmFeAsO, the variation of isothermal MR with field below 20 K is nonlinear at lower magnetic fields (3.5 T). On the other hand, PrFeAsO shows almost linear MR at all temperatures below 20 K. The anomalous behavior of MR being …


The Role Of Unbound Oligomers In The Nucleation And Growth Of Electrodeposited Polypyrrole And Method For Preparing High Strength, High Conductivity Films, Wen Zheng, Joselito M. Razal, Geoffrey M. Spinks, Van-Tan Truong, Philip G. Whitten, Gordon G. Wallace Jan 2012

The Role Of Unbound Oligomers In The Nucleation And Growth Of Electrodeposited Polypyrrole And Method For Preparing High Strength, High Conductivity Films, Wen Zheng, Joselito M. Razal, Geoffrey M. Spinks, Van-Tan Truong, Philip G. Whitten, Gordon G. Wallace

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Polypyrrole is a material with immensely useful properties suitable for a wide range of electrochemical applications, but its development has been hindered by cumbersome manufacturing processes. Here we show that a simple modification to the standard electrochemical polymerization method produces polypyrrole films of equivalently high conductivity and superior mechanical properties in one-tenth of the polymerization time. Preparing the film as a series of electrodeposited layers with thorough solvent washing between layering was found to produce excellent quality films even when layer deposition was accelerated by high current. The washing step between the sequentially polymerized layers altered the deposition mechanism, eliminating …


K0.25mn2o4 Nanofiber Microclusters As High Power Cathode Materials For Rechargeable Lithium Batteries, Chaofeng Zhang, Chuanqi Feng, Peng Zhang, Zaiping Guo, Zhixin Chen, Sean Li, Hua-Kun Liu Jan 2012

K0.25mn2o4 Nanofiber Microclusters As High Power Cathode Materials For Rechargeable Lithium Batteries, Chaofeng Zhang, Chuanqi Feng, Peng Zhang, Zaiping Guo, Zhixin Chen, Sean Li, Hua-Kun Liu

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K0.25Mn2O4 microclusters assembled from single-crystalline nanofibers were synthesized via a hydrothermal process at different temperatures. The possibility of using these materials as cathode material for lithium ion batteries was studied for the first time. The charge/discharge results showed that the K0.25Mn2O4 nanofiber microclusters synthesized at 120 degrees C exhibit excellent lithium storage properties, with a high reversible capability (360 mA h g-1 at current density of 100 mA g-1) and stable lithium-ion insertion/de-insertion reversibility. The charge/discharge mechanism in lithium ion batteries was studied and proposed for the …


Technical Aspects Of Cold High Pressure Densification (Chpd) On Long Lengths Of In Situ Mgb2 Wires With Enhanced Jc Values, R Flukiger, M S A Hossain, M Kulich, C Senatore Jan 2012

Technical Aspects Of Cold High Pressure Densification (Chpd) On Long Lengths Of In Situ Mgb2 Wires With Enhanced Jc Values, R Flukiger, M S A Hossain, M Kulich, C Senatore

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

The technical aspects correlated with the observed enhancement of mass density and critical current density in the filaments of in situ MgB2 wires by means of the recently developed Cold High Pressure Densification (CHPD) are reviewed. The present analysis first summarizes the results obtained by means of a short sample prototype device with anvil lengths of 39 mm. Pressures well above 1 GPa were applied to short wires, causing Jc enhancements between a factor 1.5 and 2.3 at 4.2 K and 8 T. At 20 K, the enhancement is much stronger and reaches a factor 3 for binary and 5 …


Exploiting High Quality Pedot:Pss-Swnt Composite Formulations For Wet-Spinning Multifunctional Fibers, Rouhollah Jalili, Joselito M. Razal, Gordon G. Wallace Jan 2012

Exploiting High Quality Pedot:Pss-Swnt Composite Formulations For Wet-Spinning Multifunctional Fibers, Rouhollah Jalili, Joselito M. Razal, Gordon G. Wallace

Australian Institute for Innovative Materials - Papers

In order to exploit the inherent properties of carbon nanotubes (CNT) in any polymer composite, systematic control of carbon nanotube loading and protocols that mitigate against CNT bundling are required. If such composites are to be rendered in fiber form via wet-spinning, then CNT bundling during the coagulation process must also be avoided. Here we have achieved this by utilizing highly exfoliated single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonicacid) (PEDOT:PSS) to obtain wet-spinnable composite formulations at various nanotube volume fractions (Vf). The addition of only 0.02 Vf of aggregate-free and individually dispersed SWNT resulted in a …