{"title":"Reaction mechanisms of pristine and Cu-doped ZnO clusters with ethanol using Evans–Polanyi principle","authors":"M. A. Abdulsattar, H. Abduljalil, H. Abed","doi":"10.1680/jemmr.22.00149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jemmr.22.00149","url":null,"abstract":"The interaction and adsorption of pristine and Cu-doped ZnO nanoparticles of ethanol (C2H6O) and several other gases are calculated. These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), ammonia (NH3), ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and sulfur dioxide (SO2). Most of these gases are air pollutants. ZnO wurtzoid clusters are used to represent ZnO nanoparticles. Gibbs free energy and enthalpy of reactions are evaluated. Evans–Polanyi principle is used to evaluate the activation energy that gives the best fit to the Arrhenius equation of the reaction. The results of solving the reaction rate equations are used to compare with experimental findings. The reaction of gases with the air before reaching the sensor surface is included. A comparison of calculated response time (10.5 s), recovery time (470 s), and reaction rate with available experimental results is performed (9 and 420 s respectively) for 50 ppm of ethanol at room temperature. From results above, Evans–Polanyi principle combined with Arrhenius equation can give acceptable results. The response time is inversely proportional to gas concentration, while recovery time is linearly proportional to the gas concentration. A correlation factor can relate reaction rate with the response.","PeriodicalId":11537,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Materials Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42707360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Di Chen, Q. Pan, Ziqi Liu, Qile Shi, Lin Zhang, Jingguang Peng, Ying Li
{"title":"Microstructure and mechanical properties of SS316L prepared by selective laser melting","authors":"Di Chen, Q. Pan, Ziqi Liu, Qile Shi, Lin Zhang, Jingguang Peng, Ying Li","doi":"10.1680/jemmr.22.00139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jemmr.22.00139","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, 316L stainless steel samples were prepared by selective laser melting (SLM) and the effects of the bulk laser energy density on the resulting density and mechanical properties were evaluated. The results show that the density and mechanical properties of SLM 316L stainless steel first improved then deteriorated with increasing bulk laser energy density. When the bulk laser energy density was 70.2 J·mm−3, the obtained tensile strength and yield strength vertical to the building direction were 720 and 546 MPa, respectively, which surpass the design requirements for forged 316L stainless steel. The influence of the microstructure on the mechanical properties of SLM 316L stainless steel is also discussed. The purpose of this research was to provide experimental data and a theoretical basis for high-performance 316L stainless steel fabricated by SLM.","PeriodicalId":11537,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Materials Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42548608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chao-pin Ma, Jun Shen, Hao Li, C. Zeng, Fuxing Xie
{"title":"Research on microstructure and mechanical properties of RSW joints of 7075T-6 alloy containing Sc","authors":"Chao-pin Ma, Jun Shen, Hao Li, C. Zeng, Fuxing Xie","doi":"10.1680/jemmr.21.00142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jemmr.21.00142","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, Resistance spot welding is a common welding method used in automobiles and other industries, and 7000 series Al alloy has become a very common industrial material because of its high strength and easy machinability. Scandium (Sc) is often used for alloy strengthening, however, there are few studies on resistance spot welding joint of Al alloy containing Sc. Here, 7075-T6 alloys containinga small amount of Sc were obtained to investigate the joint of resistance spot weldability. The simulation shows that the effective contact area between the Al sheet surface is about 19.5%, which is an important factor in nucleation. It has been found that the average grain size of the nugget decreased from 51.51 ± 5.74 μm to 8.15 ± 1.09 μm when Sc was added from 0 to 0.4 wt%, which is mainly due to the Al3Sc particles acting as the heterogeneous nucleus in the melt. The test results show that the tensile shear strength of welded joints with 0.4 wt% Sc addition is 29.2% higher than that of the joints without Sc because of grain refine strengthening.","PeriodicalId":11537,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Materials Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67477657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of tribological parameters and their optimization for wear responses of TiAlN coating","authors":"Sunil Kumar, S. Maity, Lokeswar Patnaik","doi":"10.1680/jemmr.22.00015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jemmr.22.00015","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the relative effect of tribological process parameters and their optimization for wear responses of TiAlN thin film deposited on heat-treated and plasma nitrided novel MDC-K hot work tool steel. The effect of tribological process parameters was studied by conducting the tribological test on TiAlN thin film against Tungsten Carbide (WC) counterbody. There were three tribological process parameters considered namely: sliding velocity, applied load, and sliding distance to conduct the tribological test and study their effect on five different wear responses, namely friction coefficient (COF), surface roughness (Ra), wear depth (WD), wear mass loss (WML), and hardness (Hv). The relative effect of the process parameters was studied using counter plots and the individual effect and contribution were analyzed using the ANOVA test. Further, t overall evaluation criteria (OEC) method was employed to select the optimal setting of tribological process parameters based on the experimental results. Finally, the surface morphology of the worn TiAlN surface against the best and worst parametric settings was evaluated using EDS-integrated SEM to investigate the underlying wear mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":11537,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Materials Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41356926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: A new stage of Emerging Materials Research – challenges and opportunities","authors":"H. Gu, F. Heim","doi":"10.1680/jemmr.2023.12.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jemmr.2023.12.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11537,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Materials Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44061648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Talbi, I. Bozetine, S. Anas Boussaa, K. Benfadel, D. Allam, N. Rahim, Y. Ould Mohamed, M. Leitgeb, C. Torki, S. Hocine, F. Boudeffar, A. Manseri, S. Kaci
{"title":"Photoelectrochemical properties of Cu2O/PANI/Si-based photocathodes destined for CO2 conversion","authors":"L. Talbi, I. Bozetine, S. Anas Boussaa, K. Benfadel, D. Allam, N. Rahim, Y. Ould Mohamed, M. Leitgeb, C. Torki, S. Hocine, F. Boudeffar, A. Manseri, S. Kaci","doi":"10.1680/jemmr.22.00167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jemmr.22.00167","url":null,"abstract":"The present study was aimed to convert CO2 into value-added products such as methanol which not only could address the potential solution for controlling the CO2 concentration level in the atmosphere but also can offer an alternative approach for the production of renewable energy sources. In this perspective, various hybrid photoelectrocatalysts were synthesized, characterized and used as photocathodes for photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) reduction of CO2 to methanol in aqueous medium under visible light irradiation. Flat silicon (Siflat) and pyramidal textured silicon (SiPY) substrates, covered with polyaniline (PANI) with or without sensitization with copper oxide (Cu2O) particles were investigated. It was noticed that the combination of PANI and Cu2O greatly increased the PEC CO2 reduction to methanol owing to enhance the CO2 chemisorption capacity by the photocathode surface and at the same time facilitated the separation of photogenerated electron-hole (e−/h+) pairs. The PEC results demonstrated that the applied potential impacts the photocurrent stability. The sensitization with Cu2O effectively separate the photogenerated e−/h+ pairs and therefore, enhanced the PEC CO2 reduction activity of the hybrid photocatalyst. The best Faradaic efficiency (FE) for methanol formation reached 57.66 % which was recorded when Cu2O/PANI/SiPY heterostructure was used as photocathode at applied potential of −1.2V vs SCE.","PeriodicalId":11537,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Materials Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43056317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical study of lead-free perovskite solar cell using ZnSe as ETL and PTAA as HTL","authors":"V. Srivastava, R. Chauhan, P. Lohia","doi":"10.1680/jemmr.22.00059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jemmr.22.00059","url":null,"abstract":"Cesium tin germanium triiodide (CsSn0.5Ge0.5I3) is one of the proficient inorganic halides the perovskites for better stability that has received wide attention in recent years. In the present study, a lead-free perovskite solar cell structure is designed with Zinc selenide as the electron transport layer (ETL), CsSn0.5Ge0.5I3 as the perovskite absorber layer, and PTAA [Poly(bis[4-phenyl]{2,4,6-trimethylphenyl}amine)] as the hole transport layer (HTL). For a more practical understanding of the solar cell, several parameters such as absorber thickness, defect density, doping concentration of absorber layer, interface defects, and working point temperature have been examined. SCAPS-1D simulator is used for the analysis of the proposed device. The PCE of the device has been obtained as 23.15% with VOC = 1.07 V, JSC = 27.24 mA/cm2, FF = 78.82 % at 800 nm thickness of CsSn0.5Ge0.5I3 absorber layer. Selecting the best material parameters and easy fabrication is suitable for developing highly efficient and environmentally friendly perovskite solar cells.","PeriodicalId":11537,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Materials Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46174676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmad Umar, Pranjal Srivastava, Sadanand, Shambhavi Rai, P. Lohia, D. K. Dwivedi, Hassan Algadi, S. Baskoutas
{"title":"High-performance lead-free-perovskite solar cell: a theoretical study","authors":"Ahmad Umar, Pranjal Srivastava, Sadanand, Shambhavi Rai, P. Lohia, D. K. Dwivedi, Hassan Algadi, S. Baskoutas","doi":"10.1680/jemmr.22.00129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jemmr.22.00129","url":null,"abstract":"In the present work, lead-free perovskite solar cell has been structured using CH3NH3SnI3 as an absorber layer, P3HT acting as a HTL, and TiO2 as ETL material. Perovskite solar cell is the originating photovoltaic technology that shows great elevation in its performance during recent years. The fundamental n-i-p planar heterojunction structure of photovoltaic cells has been designed and simulated with solar cell capacitance simulation software (SCAPS-1D). In this study, different parameters like thickness, acceptor density, temperature, and defect density have been varied to increase the device performance. Optimum values of different parameters have been used to attain the good results of the photovoltaic device such as PCE, VOC, FF, and JSC of 27.54%, 1.0216 V, 86.56%, and 31.14 mA/cm2, respectively. The impact of acceptor density has been varied from 1x10−12 cm−3 to 1x10−20 cm−3 for the proposed device structure. Therefore, the PCE of this device structure increases by using different charge transport materials. This simulation study shows that the proposed cell structure can be used to construct the photovoltaic cell with higher efficiency.","PeriodicalId":11537,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Materials Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44994826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Award-winning paper in 2021","authors":"","doi":"10.1680/jemmr.2023.12.1.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jemmr.2023.12.1.100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11537,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Materials Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135239068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structural, electrical, and thermistor behavior of BiFeO3-PbZrO3 for energy storage devices","authors":"P. Mallick, S. Biswal, S. K. Satpathy, B. Behera","doi":"10.1680/jemmr.21.00177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1680/jemmr.21.00177","url":null,"abstract":"The solid-state reaction technique is used to prepare the samples 0.3(BiFeO3)–0.7(PbZrO3) and 0.5(BiFeO3)–0.5(PbZrO3). Structural parameters including percent crystallinity, dislocation density, microstrain, and the average size of crystallites are calculated using the X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) data at room temperature. The SEM micrographs reveal the spherical, densely packed natures of the samples with low porosity. Dielectric constant and dielectric loss increases with the rising content of Bismuth ferrite in the materials. The performance of the materials as an NTC thermistor in the temperature range 300–450°C is discussed. The values of the Thermistor constant (i.e. in the range of 3911–6247K) and the range of sensitivity index (−1 to −9%) confirmed the potential use of the samples as NTC thermistors. The frequency-dependent ac conductivity satisfies the universal Jonscher power law. The high density of states is determined from the frequency and temperature-dependent ac conductivity of the materials.","PeriodicalId":11537,"journal":{"name":"Emerging Materials Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67477886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}