Ternary elements, effect

Our work demonstrates that EELS and in particular the combination of this technique with first principles electronic structure calculations are very powerful methods to study the bonding character in intermetallic alloys and study the alloying effects of ternary elements on the electronic structure. Our success in modelling spectra indicates the validity of our methodology of calculating spectra using the local density approximation and the single particle approach. 

Susac et al. [33] showed that the cobalt-selenium (Co-Se) system prepared by sputtering and chemical methods was catalytically active toward the ORR in an acidic medium. Lee et al. [34] synthesized ternary non-noble selenides based on W and Co by the reaction of the metal carbonyls and elemental Se in xylenes. These W-Co-Se systems showed catalytic activity toward ORR in acidic media, albeit lower than with Pt/C and seemingly proceeding as a two-electron process. It was pointed out that non-noble metals too can serve as active sites for catalysis, in fact generating sufficient activity to be comparable to that of a noble metal, provided that electronic effects have been induced by the chalcogen modification. 

For practical as well as fundamental reasons, there has been considerable interest in the deposition of alloys containing metals such as W, Mo, and Sn. In their pure forms, these metals do not catalyze the oxidation of the usual electroless reducing agents. Therefore, their mechanism of codeposition is intriguing, and developing an understanding of it should help to better understand the mechanism of electroless deposition as whole. Obvious questions in ternary and quaternary alloy deposition include the effect of the third or fourth element containing ions in solution on the rate of electroless deposition, as well as on the P and B contents in the case of alloys such as Ni-P and Ni-B. 

These problems have of course different weights for the different metals. The high reactivity of the elements on the left-side of the Periodic Table is well-known. On this subject, relevant examples based on rare earth metals and their alloys and compounds are given in a paper by Gschneidner (1993) Metals, alloys and compounds high purities do make a difference The influence of impurity atoms, especially the interstitial elements, on some of the properties of pure rare earth metals and the stabilization of non-equilibrium structures of the metals are there discussed. The effects of impurities on intermetallic and non-metallic R compounds are also considered, including the composition and structure of line compounds, the nominal vs. true composition of a sample and/or of an intermediate phase, the stabilization of non-existent binary phases which correspond to real new ternary phases, etc. A few examples taken from the above-mentioned paper and reported here are especially relevant. They may be useful to highlight typical problems met in preparative intermetallic chemistry. 

Fortunately, it is not necessary to perform all of these thermodynamic assessments. In essence one should ensure that all of die binary systems are completed, but the levels of C and N are so low that it is possible to effectively ignore interaction parameters between these two elements, even if they were possible to determine. The percentage of ternary assessments which is necessary to provide an accurate calculation is, in reality, small, mainly because the ternary IZi 12k solubility product can be small for the minor elements. For... 

Until recently, the synthesis of ionic/covalent nitrides was relatively unexplored except for the pioneering work of Juza on ternary lithium nitrides.11 However, within the last decade, several groups have begun to explore ternary nitride systems, many of which have relied on the inductive effect. The inductive effect is based on the donation of electron density from an electropositive element to an adjacent metal-nitrogen bond, thereby increasing the covalency and stability of that bond and of the nitride material itself. The success of this method is illustrated by the fact that almost all of the known ionic/covalent ternary nitrides contain electropositive elements. Only recently has a small number of transition metal ternary nitrides been synthesized in the absence of the inductive effect at moderate temperatures, by taking advantage of low temperature techniques, such as the ammonolysis of oxide precursors and metathesis reactions.6,12-17... 

In spite of the fact that the isothermal sections have been investigated for the 18 ternary systems from 448 possible 7 -d-element-Sb combinations, a considerable number of publications is devoted to the crystal structure investigations of ternary compounds that enables one to consider more thoroughly the effect of / -element and d-element interaction as well as the formation, composition and crystal structure of ternary antimonides. 

Like many of the hydride systems, various partial ternary substitutions can be made in FeTi, providing changes in plateau pressure and greatly increasing its versatility(5,17). Examples of elements that can be partially substituted into FeTi are Mn, Cr, Co, Ni and V. Ni is very effective at lowering the plateau pressure. Mn is an especially attractive substitution because (Fe,Mn)Ti can be activated at room temperature(16), eliminating the need for heating the container. 

---