scholarly journals Versatile Spectroelectrochemical Cell for In Situ Experiments: Development, Applications, and Electrochemical Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (21) ◽  
pp. 4287-4288
Author(s):  
José L. Bott‐Neto ◽  
Marta V. F. Rodrigues ◽  
Mariana C. Silva ◽  
Evaldo B. Carneiro‐Neto ◽  
Gabriel Wosiak ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (21) ◽  
pp. 4283-4283
Author(s):  
José L. Bott‐Neto ◽  
Marta V. F. Rodrigues ◽  
Mariana C. Silva ◽  
Evaldo B. Carneiro‐Neto ◽  
Gabriel Wosiak ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (21) ◽  
pp. 4306-4313 ◽  
Author(s):  
José L. Bott‐Neto ◽  
Marta V. F. Rodrigues ◽  
Mariana C. Silva ◽  
Evaldo B. Carneiro‐Neto ◽  
Gabriel Wosiak ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
José L. Bott-Neto ◽  
Marta V.F. Rodrigues ◽  
Mariana C. Silva ◽  
Evaldo Batista Carneiro Neto ◽  
Gabriel Wosiak ◽  
...  

<p><b>Abstract:</b> (Photo)electrochemical processes are involved in many fields of science and technology. The use of spectroscopic techniques coupled to (photo)electrochemistry, are mandatory to get information about interfacial processes on scale ranges from millimeters to the nanoscale. The development of spectroelectrochemical cells (SEC) contribute to the progress of the field of (photo)electrochemistry and its impact in science and technology. Therefore, in this work, we describe in detail the development of a versatile SEC that can be used for several <i>in situ</i> techniques. We performed electrochemical and computational experiments to analyze the response of our SEC as a function of the working electrode size, position and distance to the window. We found that our SEC behaves as the conventional cell when the electrode is far from the window. However, important differences arise in the thin layer configuration. The computational experiments suggest that to mitigate these problems, it is important to perform <i>in situ</i> experiments in the thin layer configuration using electrodes as small as possible.</p>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
José L. Bott-Neto ◽  
Marta V.F. Rodrigues ◽  
Mariana C. Silva ◽  
Evaldo Batista Carneiro Neto ◽  
Gabriel Wosiak ◽  
...  

<p><b>Abstract:</b> (Photo)electrochemical processes are involved in many fields of science and technology. The use of spectroscopic techniques coupled to (photo)electrochemistry, are mandatory to get information about interfacial processes on scale ranges from millimeters to the nanoscale. The development of spectroelectrochemical cells (SEC) contribute to the progress of the field of (photo)electrochemistry and its impact in science and technology. Therefore, in this work, we describe in detail the development of a versatile SEC that can be used for several <i>in situ</i> techniques. We performed electrochemical and computational experiments to analyze the response of our SEC as a function of the working electrode size, position and distance to the window. We found that our SEC behaves as the conventional cell when the electrode is far from the window. However, important differences arise in the thin layer configuration. The computational experiments suggest that to mitigate these problems, it is important to perform <i>in situ</i> experiments in the thin layer configuration using electrodes as small as possible.</p>


Author(s):  
D. Loretto ◽  
J. M. Gibson ◽  
S. M. Yalisove ◽  
R. T. Tung

The cobalt disilicide/silicon system has potential applications as a metal-base and as a permeable-base transistor. Although thin, low defect density, films of CoSi2 on Si(111) have been successfully grown, there are reasons to believe that Si(100)/CoSi2 may be better suited to the transmission of electrons at the silicon/silicide interface than Si(111)/CoSi2. A TEM study of the formation of CoSi2 on Si(100) is therefore being conducted. We have previously reported TEM observations on Si(111)/CoSi2 grown both in situ, in an ultra high vacuum (UHV) TEM and ex situ, in a conventional Molecular Beam Epitaxy system.The procedures used for the MBE growth have been described elsewhere. In situ experiments were performed in a JEOL 200CX electron microscope, extensively modified to give a vacuum of better than 10-9 T in the specimen region and the capacity to do in situ sample heating and deposition. Cobalt was deposited onto clean Si(100) samples by thermal evaporation from cobalt-coated Ta filaments.


Author(s):  
Charles W. Allen ◽  
Robert C. Birtcher

The uranium silicides, including U3Si, are under study as candidate low enrichment nuclear fuels. Ion beam simulations of the in-reactor behavior of such materials are performed because a similar damage structure can be produced in hours by energetic heavy ions which requires years in actual reactor tests. This contribution treats one aspect of the microstructural behavior of U3Si under high energy electron irradiation and low dose energetic heavy ion irradiation and is based on in situ experiments, performed at the HVEM-Tandem User Facility at Argonne National Laboratory. This Facility interfaces a 2 MV Tandem ion accelerator and a 0.6 MV ion implanter to a 1.2 MeV AEI high voltage electron microscope, which allows a wide variety of in situ ion beam experiments to be performed with simultaneous irradiation and electron microscopy or diffraction.At elevated temperatures, U3Si exhibits the ordered AuCu3 structure. On cooling below 1058 K, the intermetallic transforms, evidently martensitically, to a body-centered tetragonal structure (alternatively, the structure may be described as face-centered tetragonal, which would be fcc except for a 1 pet tetragonal distortion). Mechanical twinning accompanies the transformation; however, diferences between electron diffraction patterns from twinned and non-twinned martensite plates could not be distinguished.


Author(s):  
Kenneth S. Vecchio ◽  
John A. Hunt

In-situ experiments conducted within a transmission electron microscope provide the operator a unique opportunity to directly observe microstructural phenomena, such as phase transformations and dislocation-precipitate interactions, “as they happen”. However, in-situ experiments usually require a tremendous amount of experimental preparation beforehand, as well as, during the actual experiment. In most cases the researcher must operate and control several pieces of equipment simultaneously. For example, in in-situ deformation experiments, the researcher may have to not only operate the TEM, but also control the straining holder and possibly some recording system such as a video tape machine. When it comes to in-situ fatigue deformation, the experiments became even more complicated with having to control numerous loading cycles while following the slow crack growth. In this paper we will describe a new method for conducting in-situ fatigue experiments using a camputer-controlled tensile straining holder.The tensile straining holder used with computer-control system was manufactured by Philips for the Philips 300 series microscopes. It was necessary to modify the specimen stage area of this holder to work in the Philips 400 series microscopes because the distance between the optic axis and holder airlock is different than in the Philips 300 series microscopes. However, the program and interfacing can easily be modified to work with any goniometer type straining holder which uses a penrmanent magnet motor.


1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Garvey ◽  
John E. Tobiason ◽  
Michael Hayes ◽  
Evelyn Wolfram ◽  
David A. Reckhow ◽  
...  

This paper reports on field studies and model development aimed at understanding coliform fate and transport in the Quabbin Reservoir, an oligotrophic drinking water supply reservoir. An investigation of reservoir currents suggested the importance of wind driven phenomena, and that both lateral and vertical circulation patterns exist. In-situ experiments of coliform decay suggested dependence on light intensity and yielded an appropriate decay coefficient to be used in CE-QUAL-W2, a two-dimensional hydrodynamic and water quality model. Modeling confirmed the sensitivity of reservoir outlet concentration to vertical variability within the reservoir, meteorological conditions, and location of coliform source.


Author(s):  
D.M. Seyedi ◽  
C. Plúa ◽  
M. Vitel ◽  
G. Armand ◽  
J. Rutqvist ◽  
...  

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 2102
Author(s):  
Breno G. P. Bezerra ◽  
Lindiane Bieseki ◽  
Mariele I. S. de Mello ◽  
Djalma R. da Silva ◽  
Cristiane B. Rodella ◽  
...  

In this memory effect study, hydrotalcite-type compounds in the lamellar double hydroxide-like (LDH)/zeolite A composite material were analyzed using X-Ray Diffration XRD) in situ experiments. Three samples were analyzed: Al,Mg-LDH, Al,Mg-LDH/ZA composite, and a physical mixture (50/50 wt%) of zeolite A and Al,Mg-LDH. The Al,Mg-LDH sample was treated at 500 °C in an O2 atmosphere and subsequently rehydrated. The Al,Mg-LDH/ZA composites had three treatments: one was performed at 300 °C in a He atmosphere, and two treatments were performed with an O2 atmosphere at 300 and 500 °C. In the physical mixture, two treatments were carried out under O2 flow at 500 °C and under He flow at 300 °C. Both went through the rehydration process. All samples were also analyzed by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results show that the LDH phase in the Al,Mg-LDH/ZA compounds has memory effects, and thus, the compound can be calcined and rehydrated. For the LDH in the composite, the best heat treatment system is a temperature of 300 °C in an inert atmosphere.


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