Copper amorphous

Fluorine cannot be prepared directly by chemical methods. It is prepared in the laboratory and on an industrial scale by electrolysis. Two methods are employed (a) using fused potassium hydrogen-fluoride, KHFj, ill a cell heated electrically to 520-570 K or (b) using fused electrolyte, of composition KF HF = 1 2, in a cell at 340-370 K which can be electrically or steam heated. Moissan, who first isolated fluorine in 1886, used a method very similar to (b) and it is this process which is commonly used in the laboratory and on an industrial scale today. There have been many cell designs but the cell is usually made from steel, or a copper-nickel alloy ( Monel metal). Steel or copper cathodes and specially made amorphous carbon anodes (to minimise attack by fluorine) are used. Hydrogen is formed at the cathode and fluorine at the anode, and the hydrogen fluoride content of the fused electrolyte is maintained by passing in... 

StiU another method used to produce PV cells is provided by thin-fiLm technologies. Thin films ate made by depositing semiconductor materials on a sohd substrate such as glass or metal sheet. Among the wide variety of thin-fiLm materials under development ate amorphous siUcon, polycrystaUine sUicon, copper indium diselenide, and cadmium teUuride. Additionally, development of multijunction thin-film PV cells is being explored. These cells use multiple layers of thin-film sUicon alloys or other semiconductors tailored to respond to specific portions of the light spectmm. 

Solvent for Electrolytic Reactions. Dimethyl sulfoxide has been widely used as a solvent for polarographic studies and a more negative cathode potential can be used in it than in water. In DMSO, cations can be successfully reduced to metals that react with water. Thus, the following metals have been electrodeposited from their salts in DMSO cerium, actinides, iron, nickel, cobalt, and manganese as amorphous deposits zinc, cadmium, tin, and bismuth as crystalline deposits and chromium, silver, lead, copper, and titanium (96—103). Generally, no metal less noble than zinc can be deposited from DMSO. 

EtOH). No methoxyl is present. It forms a series of crystalline double chlorides with cadmium, zinc or copper, does not give the thalleioquin reaction, and solutions of its sulphate are not fluorescent. It is diacidie and forms two series of salts of which the nitrate, B. HNOj, crystallises in minute prisms, m.p. 196°, insoluble in water. Cinchonamine hydrochloride, B. HCl, laminae or B. HCl. HjO, cubical crystals, has been suggested for use in the estimation of nitrates. When warmed with strong nitric acid the alkaloid furnishes dinitrocinchonamine. It gives an amorphous, monoacetyl derivative, and forms a methiodide, m.p. 208 , which with silver oxide yields an amorphous methylcinchonamine. Raymond-Hamet found that cinchonamine ves typical indole colour reactions and is probably an indole alkaloid. This seems to have been... 

Pilocarpine dissolves in dilute soda solution, and the rotation is thereby reduced, due to the formation of the sodium salt of pilocarpic acid, CiiHigOgNa, of which pilocarpine is the lactone. Amorphous barium and copper salts have been prepared. Pilocarpine in dilute sulphuric acid gives with hydrogen peroxide, followed by potassium dichromate, a bluish-violet colour soluble in benzene. For the identification of the alkaloid Wagenaar recommends precipitation with gold chloride solution. 

The column was then eluted with 0.0025N sulfuric acid in methanol-water mixture (1 1 v/v). A total of 900 ml of fractions containing a substance which showed UV absorption at 290 m/u was collected. After removal of methanol by distillation, the residual liquid was adjusted to pH 6.0 with Dowex 44 (OH type) and freeze-dried to obtain 9.3 g (95% yield) of NK631 monosulfate (copper-free form) in the form of pale yellowish-white amorphous powder. 

The corrosion behaviour of amorphous alloys has received particular attention since the extraordinarily high corrosion resistance of amorphous iron-chromium-metalloid alloys was reported. The majority of amorphous ferrous alloys contain large amounts of metalloids. The corrosion rate of amorphous iron-metalloid alloys decreases with the addition of most second metallic elements such as titanium, zirconium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, cobalt, nickel, copper, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, iridium and platinum . The addition of chromium is particularly effective. For instance amorphous Fe-8Cr-13P-7C alloy passivates spontaneously even in 2 N HCl at ambient temperature ". (The number denoting the concentration of an alloy element in the amorphous alloy formulae is the atomic percent unless otherwise stated.)... 

The thickness of a photovoltaic cell is chosen on the basis of its ability to absorb sunlight, which in turn depends on the bandgap and absorption coefficient of the semiconductor. For instance, 5 nm of crystalline silicon are required to absorb the same amount of sunlight as 0.1 nm of amorphous silicon and 0.01 nm of copper-indium diselenide. Only MBE and MOCVD are capable of producing such extremely thin films.i l... 

Thermal decomposition of [Cu0Si(0 Bu)3]4 in the solid phase begins at ca. 100 °C under argon (by TGA) and results in formation of an amorphous material until roughly 600 °C, at which temperature Cu metal was detected (by PXRD) [105]. Conversely, decomposition under oxygen led initially to a material with Cu crystalhtes and small amounts of CU2O and CuO, and subsequent heating beyond 800 °C resulted in oxidation of all the copper to CuO. 

Hong, C. Wagner, S. 2000. Inkjet printed copper source/drain metallization for amorphous silicon thin-film transistors. IEEE Electron Dev. Lett. 21 384-386. 

A conveniently prepared amorphous silica-supported titanium catalyst exhibits activity similar to that of Ti-substituted zeolites in the epoxidation of terminal linear and bulky alkenes such as cyclohexene (22) <00CC855>. An unusual example of copper-catalyzed epoxidation has also been reported, in which olefins are treated with substoichiometric amounts of soluble Cu(II) compounds in methylene chloride, using MCPBA as a terminal oxidant. Yields are variable, but can be quite high. For example, cis-stilbene 24 was epoxidized in 90% yield. In this case, a mixture of cis- and /rans-epoxides was obtained, suggesting a step-wise radical mechanism <00TL1013>. 

Benjamin, M. M. and Leckie, J. O. (1981). Multiple-site adsorption of cadmium, copper, zinc, and lead on amorphous iron oxyhydroxide, J. Coll. Inter/. Sci., 79, 209-221. 

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