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Hydroxyapatite synthesized by a wet chemical route was subjected to heavy Krypton ion irradiation of 4MeV at various fluences. Glancing incidence Xray diffraction results confirmed the phase purity of irradiated HA with a moderate…
The effect of heat treatment on the structural and micro-structural properties of the Co2-Y (Ba2Co2Fe12O22) was investigated by means of X-ray diffraction and the Rietveld refinement. The samples were synthesized using high-energy ball…
Synthesized by the wet chemical precipitation technique hydroxyapatite powders (HAp) with the sizes of the crystallites of (20-50) nm and 1000 nm were analyzed by different analytical methods. By means of electron paramagnetic resonance…
Y-type hexaferrite samples Ba2ZnxCo2-xFe12O22 with x = 0, 1 and 2 were prepared from precursors synthesized by the citrate sol-gel auto combustion method. The powders were sintered at 1100{\deg} C for four hours. X-ray diffraction, scanning…
The goal of this work is to report a systematic and balanced review of the progress made in recent years on the high-pressure behavior of iodates, a group of materials with multiple technological applications and peculiar behaviors under…
An approach combining the Rietveld method and pairs distribution function analysis to study crystalline materials under high pressure or temperature was early proposed by us, and in this study, it was applied to investigate de effect of…
High-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction was utilized to study the mechanical response of the f.c.c $\delta$-hydride phase, the intermetallic precipitation with hexagonal C14 lave phase and the $\alpha$-Zr phase in the Zircaloy-4 materials…
Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and neutron powder diffraction (NPD) have been used to investigate the crystal structure of CoFe2O4 nanoparticles prepared via different hydrothermal synthesis routes, with particular attention given to…
Room temperature powder x-ray diffraction measurements have been carried out on polycrystalline samples of CuxV2O5 with x = 0.33, 0.40, 0.50, 0.55 and 0.60, prepared by solid state reaction in evacuated quartz tubes. All the samples were…
The aim of this work is to study heat pump cycles, using CO 2 based mixtures as working fluids. Since adding other chemicals to CO 2 moves the critical point and generally equilibrium lines, it is expected that lower operating pressures as…
X-ray photoemission and x-ray absorption spectroscopy are important techniques to characterize chemical bonding at surfaces and are often used to identify the strength and nature of adsorbate-substrate interactions. In this study, we judge…
A method for estimating the relative content of crystalline phases of a multiphase sample, based on probabilistic analysis of the intensities of the diffraction pattern reflexes, has been developed. The method is based on the introduction…
We study the chemical evolution of H2O:CO:NH3 ice mixtures irradiated with soft X-rays, in the range 250-1250 eV. We identify many nitrogen-bearing molecules such as e.g., OCN-, NH4+ , HNCO, CH3CN, HCONH2, and NH2COCONH2. Several infrared…
(In1-xFex)2O3 polycrystalline samples with x = (0.0, 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20 and 0.25) have been synthesized by a gel combustion method. Reitveld refinement analysis of X raydiffraction data indicated the formation of single phase cubic…
We used by in-situ high energy X-ray diffraction to inestigate the deformation behavior of Grade 2 commercially pure titanium that was hydrogen charged to form hydrides. The results showed that the peak broadening in the diffraction…
Amorphous, glass, and glass-ceramic materials practically always include a significant number (more than eight) of crystalline phases, with the contents of the latter ranging from a few wt.% to several hundredths or tenths of wt.%. The…
X-ray diffraction was demonstrated from shock-compressed polycrystalline metal on nanosecond time scales. Laser ablation was used to induce shock waves in polycrystalline foils of Be, 25 to 125 microns thick. A second laser pulse was used…
Dynamically compressed materials in longitudinal waves are described by two physical models: hydrostatic pressure, with equal, normal, principal stresses or material uniaxially strained in the wave propagation direction. These models are…
We have studied the electronic structure of unoccupied states measured by O K-edge and Cu L-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), combined with crystal structure studied by high resolution powder x-ray diffraction (HRPXRD), of…
Mineralization of bone and teeth involves interactions between biomolecules and hydroxyapatite. Associated complex interfaces and processes remain difficult to analyze at the 1 to 100 nm scale using current laboratory techniques, and prior…