Ultrasound metals

Heteropoly compounds, nanostructured adsorbents, 119 High-powered ultrasound metal oxides and supported metal catalysts, 3... 

In this paper, the performanees of laser-ultrasound are estimated in order to identify lacks of weld penetration. The laser-ultrasonic technique is applied to cylindrical metallic strucmres (few mm thick) in a single-sided control. The results obtained for different materials (gold-nickel alloy and tantalum) are presented by B-sean views for which the control configuration is discussed with regard to the thermal effects at the laser impact. This testing is performed for different lacks of weld penetration (up to 0.5 mm for a thickness of 2 mm) even in the presence of the weld bead, which corresponds to an actual industrial problem. 

Two major sources of ultrasound are employed, namely ultrasonic baths and ultrasonic immersion hom probes [79, 71]- The fonuer consists of fixed-frequency transducers beneath the exterior of the bath unit filled with water in which the electrochemical cell is then fixed. Alternatively, the metal bath is coated and directly employed as electrochemical cell, but m both cases the results strongly depend on the position and design of the set-up. The ultrasonic horn transducer, on the other hand, is a transducer provided with an electrically conducting tip (often Ti6A14V), which is inuuersed in a three-electrode thenuostatted cell to a depth of 1-2 cm directly facing the electrode surface. 

In an alternative design, the actual tip of the ultrasonic hom may be used as the working electrode after insertion of an isolated metal disc [77, 78 and 79]. With this electrode, known as the sonotrode, very high limiting currents are obtained at comparatively low ultrasound intensities, and diflflision layers of less than 1 pm have been reported. Furdiemiore, the magniPide of the limiting currents has been found to be proportional to D, enabling a parallel to be drawn with hydrodynamic electrodes. 

Apphcations of ultrasound to electrochemistry have also seen substantial recent progress. Beneficial effects of ultrasound on electroplating and on organic synthetic apphcations of organic electrochemistry (71) have been known for quite some time. More recent studies have focused on the underlying physical theory of enhanced mass transport near electrode surfaces (72,73). Another important appHcation for sonoelectrochemistry has been developed by J. Reisse and co-workers for the electroreductive synthesis of submicrometer powders of transition metals (74). 

O. V. Abramov, Ultrasound in Tiquid and Solid Metals, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla., 1994. 

Other imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance and ultrasound have opened up avenues of tremendous potential for contrast medium enhancement (123). Ultrasound contrast media developments have centered around encapsulated air micro-bubbles. Magnetic resonance contrast agents iavolve metal—ligand complexes and have evolved from ionic to nonionic species, much as radiopaques have. 

With special techniques for the activation of the metal—e.g. for removal of the oxide layer, and the preparation of finely dispersed metal—the scope of the Refor-matsky reaction has been broadened, and yields have been markedly improved." The attempted activation of zinc by treatment with iodine or dibromomethane, or washing with dilute hydrochloric acid prior to use, often is only moderately successful. Much more effective is the use of special alloys—e.g. zinc-copper couple, or the reduction of zinc halides using potassium (the so-called Rieke procedure ) or potassium graphite. The application of ultrasound has also been reported. ... 

In addition to sodium, other metals have found application for the Wurtz coupling reaction, e.g. zinc, iron, copper, lithium, magnesium. The use of ultrasound can have positive effect on reactivity as well as rate and yield of this two-phase reaction aryl halides can then even undergo an aryl-aryl coupling reaction to yield biaryls. ... 

In the contact mode, a metal rod acts as a waveguide. When it touches a surface, it is stimulated by the high frequencies, ultrasound, on the opposite side of the surface. This technique is used to locate turbulent flow and or flow restriction in process piping. 

Unsymmetrical as well as symmetrical anhydrides are often prepared by the treatment of an acyl halide with a carboxylic acid salt. The compound C0CI2 has been used as a catalyst. If a metallic salt is used, Na , K , or Ag are the most common cations, but more often pyridine or another tertiary amine is added to the free acid and the salt thus formed is treated with the acyl halide. Mixed formic anhydrides are prepared from sodium formate and an aryl halide, by use of a solid-phase copolymer of pyridine-l-oxide. Symmetrical anhydrides can be prepared by reaction of the acyl halide with aqueous NaOH or NaHCOa under phase-transfer conditions, or with sodium bicarbonate with ultrasound. 

Bimetallic Au/Pd nanoparticles were prepared by ultrasound irradiation of a mixture solution of NaAuCl4-H20/PdCl2 2NaCl-3H20 by which the Au and Pd ions were reduced to the metallic state. The Mossbauer spectra of AuPd-SDS particles, with SDS (sodium dodecyl sulfate) representing the surfactant of the system, consist of two components, one for the pure Au core and the other for the alloy layer at the interface of Au core and Pd shell [435]. 

Use of ultrasounds in catalyst preparation leads to higher penetration of the active metal inside the pores of the support and greatly increases the metal dispersion on the support [185]. Major advances in ultrasonic technology have increased the acoustic power and sensitivity of transducers. 

Abstract In the last decade, the sonoelectrochemical synthesis of inorganic materials has experienced an important development motivated by the emerging interest in the nanostructures production. However, other traditional sonoelectrochemical synthesis such as gas production, metal deposits and metallic oxide films have also been improved with the simultaneous application of both electric and ultrasound fields. In this chapter, a summary of the fundamental basis, experimental set-up and different applications found in literature are reported, giving the reader a general approach to this branch of Applied Sonoelectrochemistry. 

Other possibility is the application of sonication during the dissolution of electrodeposited metals such as copper or nickel [74]. For both, the texture coefficient of the dissolved plane is affected, and is dependent on the plastic deformation by the shock wave and jet flow pressures. For both metals, the author sees that the greatest effect of ultrasound is located around 20 and 40 kHz. However, there is a marked difference between the two metals. Copper demonstrated the greatest effects at 45 kHz while nickel was most dramatically affected at the lower frequency of 28 kHz, but the possible reasons for that are not provided by the authors. 

Finally, the presence of ultrasound in the electrodeposition of metals can produce both massive metal and metal colloid [75]. The reduction of AuCLt- at polycrystalline boron-doped diamond electrodes follows two pathways forming... 

Because ultrasound can be an efficient driving force in the synthesis of metal nanoparticles [86], it is important to point out the specific effects of the combination [87] (in contrast to the use of both techniques alone) but the intensity of the effects depends on the experimental set up used ... 

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