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Crystals, Volume 13, Issue 3

March 2023 - 182 articles

Cover Story: Controlled oriented crystallization of glass surfaces is desired for high-precision applications, since the uppermost crystal layer significantly influences the properties of the glass ceramic. Surface crystallization of barium fresnoite glasses of the molar composition 2 BaO–TiO2–2.75 SiO2 at 825 °C in ambient/dry air, argon or vacuum led to the formation of fresnoite (Ba2TiSi2O8) crystals with a different size, morphology, and orientation. These changes correlated with changes in the humidity of the annealing atmosphere due to a decrease in viscosity. The least distorted crystals appear as depressions of up to 6 μm. This developed topography is changing the crystal orientation during growth relative to the flat glass surface and is therefore acting as a driving force for orientation. View this paper
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Articles (182)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,914 Views
17 Pages

22 March 2023

In our previous work, we obtained the uniformly valid asymptotic solution of a cylindrical rod eutectic. In order to further study the critical point of the stable growth of a rod eutectic, we have considered the unsteady growth of a rod eutectic on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,997 Views
13 Pages

Preparation of a Flexible Reduced Graphene Oxide-Si Composite Film and Its Application in High-Performance Lithium Ion Batteries

  • Zhaoyun Chu,
  • Xiangchuan Zhao,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Tianshuang Bao,
  • Hongxiang Li,
  • Yue Cao,
  • Boming Zhang,
  • Jun Cao and
  • Weimeng Si

22 March 2023

This paper describes a strategy for preparing free-standing reduced graphene oxide@Si nanoparticles (rGO@Si NPs) composite membranes. Graphene oxide (GO) was reduced and self-assembled synchronously with nanoparticles of silicon (Si NPs) on a metal s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,351 Views
15 Pages

22 March 2023

Gas metal arc welding-based additive manufacturing (GMA–AM) is a promising, low-cost approach to fabricate large-scale and complex geometry components using layer-by-layer deposition of metals. However, the low forming accuracy of GMA–AM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,213 Views
11 Pages

Temperature Dependence of Optical Bistability in Superconductor–Semiconductor Photonic Crystals Embedded with Graphene

  • Libing Qian,
  • Yonghong Hu,
  • Zhiyuan Chen,
  • Dong Zhao,
  • Junjie Dong and
  • Xiaoling Chen

22 March 2023

We theoretically investigate the optical bistability in superconductor–semiconductor photonic crystals composed of graphene. The photonic crystals are symmetric to the center and arranged alternately by the superconductor (HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+δ...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,367 Views
9 Pages

22 March 2023

Cellular automata (CA) modeling is a powerful and efficient tool for simulating the dynamic evolution of polycrystalline microstructures in modern materials and metallurgy studies, such as solidification, plastic deformation and recrystallization. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,388 Views
16 Pages

Nanocrystalline Sulfided NiMoW Catalyst Supported on Mesoporous Aluminas for the Hydrodesulfurization of 4,6-Dimethyldibenzothiophene

  • Radostina Palcheva,
  • Luděk Kaluža,
  • Tanya Petrova,
  • Lubomir Dimitrov,
  • Daniela Karashanova,
  • Georgi Tyuliev and
  • Květuše Jirátová

22 March 2023

Tri-metallic NiMoW catalysts prepared by impregnating mesoporous aluminas (pore sizes of ~9 nm and surface areas of ~225 m2/g) obtained by sol-gel (NiMoW/Al) and hydrothermal (NiMoW/AlHYDT) processes were investigated in the hydrodesulfurization (HDS...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,796 Views
11 Pages

Evolution Regularity of Continuous Surface Structures Shaped by Laser-Supported Fictive-Temperature Modifying

  • Wei Liao,
  • Chuanchao Zhang,
  • Jing Chen,
  • Ke Yang,
  • Lijuan Zhang,
  • Xiaolong Jiang,
  • Yang Bai,
  • Haijun Wang,
  • Xiaoyu Luan and
  • Xiaodong Jiang
  • + 3 authors

22 March 2023

The influence of residual heat on the fictive temperature modification zone of fused silica for different CO2 laser scanning time intervals was investigated to precisely control the profiles of hydrofluoric (HF) acid-etched fused silica surface, whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,509 Views
16 Pages

21 March 2023

In this investigation, pure aluminum (Al) powders were cryomilled with and without magnesium dopants to study (a) the effect of cryomilling time on the crystallite size and (b) the effect of magnesium dopant on Al to achieve grain boundary stability....

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,831 Views
25 Pages

Local Microstructure and Texture Development during Friction Stir Spot of 5182 Aluminum Alloy

  • Thierry Baudin,
  • Sandrine Bozzi,
  • François Brisset and
  • Hiba Azzeddine

21 March 2023

The local microstructure, texture gradient and mechanical properties through the shoulder dimension (10 mm) of upper and lower AA5182 aluminum sheets were investigated using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and Vickers microhardness after fric...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,464 Views
10 Pages

21 March 2023

Microscale single-crystal copper is widely used in electronics, communications and other fields due to its excellent properties such as high ductility, high toughness and good conductivity. Therefore, it is particularly important to research its fati...

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