Crystals, Volume 10, Issue 11

Worldwide disposal of multi-tonnage solid waste from coal-burning thermal power plants (TPPs) creates serious environmental and economic problems, which necessitate the recovery of industrial waste in large quantities and at commercial prices. Fly as...

In this article, a strategy for the fabrication of color-tuned titanium using a torch was developed. The torch was used to manufacture a layer of titanium dioxide on titanium substrates. The reaction time and requirements were reduced compared to the...

Actual societal challenges require a vigorous progress on functional materials with improved functionalities [...]

Dual-phase (DP) steels consist of a ferritic matrix dispersed with some percentage of martensite, which gives the material a good combination of strength and ductility, along with the capacity to absorb energy and enhanced corrosion protection proper...

This Special Issue collects ten articles related to the broadly understood physical properties of intermetallic compounds [...]

Introduction of chirality in the field of molecular conductors has received increasing interest in recent years in the frame of modulation of the crystal packing, and hence conducting properties, with the number of stereogenic centers and absolute co...

In the preparation of CuCr alloy using the self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS)-metallurgy method, the dissolution of alumina in molten slag has an important influence in two key steps: aluminum thermal reduction and slag refining. In th...

The performances of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) using holey graphene (HGNS) as the anode material are compared with those using non-holey graphene (GNS). The effects of graphene holes on ion transport are analyzed with a combined experiment/modeling...

Technogenic steklite, KAl(SO4)2, and unnamed mineral phase (K,Na)3Na3(Fe,Al)2(SO4)6 from burnt dumps of the Chelyabinsk Coal Basin have been investigated by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and electron microprobe analysis. Steklite is trigonal, spac...

The Ni content is a crucial factor for the development of γ′-strengthened Co-based superalloys and some studies have systematically addressed its influence on various properties in model superalloys. In this paper, we report for the first...