ZrB2/ZrxAlyCz composite ceramics with different volume contents of ZrxAlyCz were fabricated by the spark plasma sintering. The sintering behavior, microstructure, mechanical properties and oxidation resistance were st...
ZrB2/ZrxAlyCz composite ceramics with different volume contents of ZrxAlyCz were fabricated by the spark plasma sintering. The sintering behavior, microstructure, mechanical properties and oxidation resistance were studied. The results indicated that sinterability of the composites was remarkably improved by addition of ZrxAlyCz compared to the single-phase ZrB2 ceramic. As the content of ZrxAlyCz increased, both the Vickers hardness and Young's modulus of the composites first increased and then decreased. The fracture toughness of the ZrB2-40vol% ZrxAlyCz composite was 3.56 MPam1/2, which increased by approximately 70% compared to the monolithic ZrB2 ceramic. As increasing the content of ZrxAlyCz, the oxidation resistance of composite ceramics was obviously enhanced. The oxidation-resulted increase in weight of composite ceramic with 20vol% ZrxAlyCz was the best performance in oxidation resistance at 1500 °C. The high-temperature oxidation resulted in dense and stable Al-B-O glass due to adding ZrxAlyCz into the composite ceramics, those resulting products effectively blocked the oxygen atoms entering into the ceramic matrix.
Zr2Al4C5/SiC composite ceramics were successfully fabricated from the powder mixture of Zr, Al, C and SiC by spark plasma sintering method. The composition-dependent densification, phase evolution, microstructure and ...
Zr2Al4C5/SiC composite ceramics were successfully fabricated from the powder mixture of Zr, Al, C and SiC by spark plasma sintering method. The composition-dependent densification, phase evolution, microstructure and mechanical properties of the composite ceramics were studied. With increasing the SiC content in the starting powder mixture, the densification behavior of sintered samples was promoted. It is found that the as-sintered products are mainly composed of Zr2Al4C5 matrix and SiC reinforcement, and the fine SiC particles tend to disperse on the matrix grain boundaries. Besides, the addition of SiC particles can evidently hinder the coarsening of Zr2Al4C5 grains. Both the Vickers hardness and Young's modulus of composites ceramics gradually increase as increasing the SiC content. The fracture toughness of the composites decreases first then increases with the increase in the SiC and the Zr2Al4C5/30vol%SiC sample possesses the maximum value of 4.4MPam1/2.
Photonic Chern insulators are known for their topological chiral edge states (CESs), whose absolute existence is determined by the bulk band topology, but concrete dispersion can be engineered to exhibit various prope...
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Photonic Chern insulators are known for their topological chiral edge states (CESs), whose absolute existence is determined by the bulk band topology, but concrete dispersion can be engineered to exhibit various properties. For example, the previous theory suggested that the edge dispersion can wind many times around the Brillouin zone to slow down light, which can potentially overcome fundamental limitations in conventional slow-light devices: narrow bandwidth and keen sensitivity to fabrication imperfection. Here, we report the first experimental demonstration of this idea, achieved by coupling CESs with resonance-induced nearly flat bands. We show that the backscattering-immune hybridized CESs are significantly slowed down over a relatively broad bandwidth. Our work thus paves an avenue to broadband topological slow-light devices.
Effective-medium theory pertains to the theoretical modelling of homogenization, which aims to replace an inhomogeneous structure of subwavelength-scale constituents with a homogeneous effective medium. The effective-...
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Much effort has been devoted to the generation of fluorescent probes by synthetic approaches. In this study, we developed a facile strategy to construct far-red fluorescent probes based on through-space charge transfe...
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Much effort has been devoted to the generation of fluorescent probes by synthetic approaches. In this study, we developed a facile strategy to construct far-red fluorescent probes based on through-space charge transfer within complexes of acceptors and donors and their “twist+twist” interactions. Owing to their rare two-photon excitation property, the complexes could be used for in vivo imaging of the mouse cerebrovascular system.
A novel rhodium‐catalyzed dearomatization of O‐substituted pyridines to access N‐substituted 2‐pyridones has been developed. A computational study suggests a mechanism involving the formation of a pyridinium ylide...
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A novel rhodium‐catalyzed dearomatization of O‐substituted pyridines to access N‐substituted 2‐pyridones has been developed. A computational study suggests a mechanism involving the formation of a pyridinium ylide followed by an unprecedented 1,4‐acyl migratory rearrangement from O to C. Furthermore, the chiral dirhodium complexes serve as the catalyst for the asymmetric transformation with excellent enantioselective control. DFT calculations indicate the chirality is transferred from axial chirality to the central stereogenic centre. The stronger π–π interaction and CH–π interaction account for the high enantioselectivity.
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