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These are generally reserved for specialist applications, and are in the main more costly than conventional soap-based greases. The most common substances used as nonsoap thickeners are silica and clays prepared in such a way that they form gels with mineral and synthetic oils. Other materials that have been used are carbon black, metal oxides and various organic compounds. 

Certain three-dimensional electrodes, also known as slurry or fluidized-bed electrodes, are sometimes used as well in order to have a strongly enhanced working surface area. Electrodes of this type consist of fine particles of the electrode material (metal, oxide, carbon, or other) kept in suspension in the electrolyte solution by intense mixing or gas bubbling. A certain potential difference is applied to the system between an inert feeder elecnode and an auxiliary electrode that are immersed into the suspension. By charge transfer, the particles of electrode material constantly hitting the feeder electrode acquire its potential (fully or at least in part), so that a desired electrochemical reaction may occur at their surface. In this reaction, the particles lose their charge but reacquire it in subsequent encounters with the feeder electrode. 

In the past, mica has been the material of choice for the interacting surfaces because of the ease of handling and since molecularly smooth surfaces can be fabricated mica surface coated with a thin film of other materials (e.g., lipid monolayers or bilayers, metal films, polymer films, or other macromolecules such as proteins) can also be used. The use of alternative materials such as molecularly smooth sapphire and silica sheets and carbon and metal oxide surfaces is also being explored. 

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Two kinds of template, viz. hard template and soft template, are usually available for nanocasting processes. The true liquid crystal templating synthesis can be considered a soft-template process. In general, the hard template means an inorganic solid. For example, mesoporous silica as a template to replicate other materials, such as carbon or metal oxides, by which the pore structure of the parent can be transferred to the generated porous materials. A 3-D pore network in the template is necessary to create a stable replica. Mesoporous silica and carbon are commonly used templates for nanocasting synthesis. 

Ordered mesoporous silica seems to be an ideal hard template, which can be used as a mold for other mesostructures with various compositions, such as ordered mesoporous carbon and metal oxides. Mesoporous silicas with various different structures are available, and silica is relatively easily dissolved in HF or NaOH. Alternatively, mesoporous carbons with a solid skeleton structure are also suitable choices as hard templates due to their excellent structural stability on thermal or hydrothermal and chemical treatment. A pronounced advantage of carbon is the fact that it is much easier to remove than silica by simple combustion. The nanocasting synthesis of mesoporous carbon by using mesoporous silica as template will be discussed in detail in the section on mesoporous carbon. In many cases, silica is unsuitable for synthesizing framework compositions other than carbon, since the leaching of the silica typically affects the material which is filled into the silica pore system. 

Palladium species immobilized on various supports have also been applied as catalysts for Suzuki cross-coupling reactions of aryl bromides and chlorides with phenylboronic acids. Polymers, dendrimers, micro- and meso-porous materials, carbon and metal oxides have been used as carriers for Pd particles or complexes for these reactions. Polymers as supports were applied by Lee and Valiyaveettil et al. (using a particular capillary microreactor) [173] and by Bedford et al. (very efficient activation of aryl chlorides by polymer bound palladacycles) [174]. Buch-meiser et al. reported on the use of bispyrimidine-based Pd catalysts which were anchored onto a polymer support for Suzuki couplings of several aryl bromides [171]. Investigations of Corma et al. [130] and Plenio and coworkers [175] focused on the separation and reusability of Pd catalysts supported on soluble polymers. Astruc and Heuze et al. efficiently converted aryl chlorides using diphosphino Pd(II)-complexes on dendrimers [176]. 

Characterization of carbon nanotube-metal oxide materials... 

Jiang, H., J. Ma, and C. Li. 2012. Mesoporous carbon incorporated metal oxide nanomaterials as supercapacitor electrodes. Advanced Materials 24 4197—4202. 

Figure 3.4 Schematics of ORR electrocatalyst s morphologies. (A) Metal catalyst such as Pt and metal alloy catalyst such as PtPd supported on a conductive material such as carbon or metal oxide (B) core—shell catalyst such as Au Pt supported on conductive material such as carbon or metal oxide (C) metal catalyst such as Pt and metal alloy catalyst such as PtPd supported on a nanofibre such as carbon or metal-oxide nanofibre and (D) core—shell catalyst such as Au Pt supported on conductive nanotubings such as carbon nanotubings. (For color version of this figure, the reader is referred to the online version of this book.)...

Since the pioneering studies of Hill (8) and Kuwana [9], the most successful electrodes for proteins have been noble metals (Au or Ag) modified with various adsorbates, or materials such as carbon or metal oxides that have natural surface functionalities [10-18]. Conducting metal oxides are often optically transparent, and thus provide additional possibilities for spectral studies, while a further development has been the modification of electrode surfaces with surfactant films [19-21]. Examples of... 

Sensor surfaces can consist of most materials. Metals, oxide ceramics and carbon in its different modifications including diamond, silicates and organic... 

Wang et al. (2004) and Zhang (2008). Systematic modifications at the fabrication stage include (i) the selection of materials (e.g., carbon or metal-oxide-based support materials, Pt or Pt-alloy catalyst materials, perfluorinated or alternative ionomer materials), (ii) size dispersion of catalyst and support particles, (iii) gravimetric composition of the ink (amounts of carbon, ionomer, and Pt) and solvent properties, (iv) thickness of the CL, and (v) fabrication conditions (temperature, solvent evaporation rate, pressure, and tempering procedures). 

Electro-catalyst supports play a vital role in ascertaining the performance, durability, and cost of PEMFC and DMFC systems. A myriad of nano-structured materials including carbon nanostructures, metal oxides, conducting polymers, transition metals nitrides and carbides, and many hybrid conjugates, have been exhaustively researched to improve the existing support and also to develop novel PEMFC/DMFC catalyst support. One of the main challenges in the immediate future is to develop new catalyst supports that improve the durability of the catalyst layer and, in a best-case scenario, also impact the electronic properties of the active phase to leapfrog to improve catalyst kinetics. 

On a weight basis in many locations, dust is the primary air contaminant. When in contact with metallic surfaces and combined with moisture, dust can promote corrosion by forming galvanic or differential cells that, because of their hygroscopic nature, form an electrolyte on the surface. Suspended particles of carbon and carbon compoimds, metal oxides, sulfuric acid, ammonium sulfate, sodium chloride, and other salts will be foimd in industrial atmospheres. It is these materials, when combined with moisture, that initiate corrosion. 

There are a number of materials obligatory in today s technology (metal/carbon and metal oxide/carbon composites, oxynitrides, oxysulfides, etc.) whose synthesis by this procedure has been little or not at all investigation. At least, is worth to try. 

It is possible to make electrolithically deposited coatings in special cells and in the cells under operation [123, 124]. Thermodynamically, it is possible to receive the deposited coatings, combining the addition of titanium compounds in electrolyte, and boron oxides to the carbon anode material. Metal oxides dissolve in electrolyte the ions of metals discharge at the cathode and deposit on the cathode as titanium boride and titanium carbide. The problem involves the poor controllability of the process and the need to fulfill the required purity of aluminium (in titanium and boron content). Once small amounts of boron oxide and titanium (in the form of oxide of salt) are added, it is possible to obtain the metal of required purity and quality, but the coating process lasts for a long time and is poorly ccmtroUed. 

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