Progress and innovation of nanostructured sulfur cathodes and metal-free anodes for room-temperature Na–S batteries

• Marina Tabuyo-Martínez,
• Bernd Wicklein and
• Pilar Aranda

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 995–1020, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.75

• accommodated by the matrices, especially in the case of flexible ones. Na alloys and intermetallics Sodium is capable of forming alloys and intermetallic compounds with a range of elements at room temperature, most notably with Sb, Sn, P, Si, Ge, and Bi [73]. This way, considerable amounts of Na can be stored

• intermetallic compounds (M-Sn/Sb/P with M = Sn, Sb, P, Si, Bi, Cu, Ni, Fe, Zn). Fully sodiated Sb, Sn, and P form the phases Na3Sb, Na15Sn4, and Na3P, which offer theoretical capacities of 660, 847 and 2596 mAh·g−1, respectively [73]. However, the measured values are usually somewhat lower due to cycle

• [81] (Figure 10C), and Sn/carbon spheres [79] with a capacity retention of 70–90% over 100–500 cycles [73][75][76]. Sodiation of intermetallic compounds (M-Sn/Sb/P) is an interesting alternative as these intermetallic phases often show higher cycle stability than the pure elements and the respective

Electromigration-induced formation of percolating adsorbate islands during condensation from the gaseous phase: a computational study

• Alina V. Dvornichenko,
• Vasyl O. Kharchenko and
• Dmitrii O. Kharchenko

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2021, 12, 694–703, doi:10.3762/bjnano.12.55

• growth of intermetallic compounds between the solder and the metal contact of the integrated circuit (flip-chip technology) [3][4][5][6][7]. The vast majority of research on EM began in the 1970s. Such studies were mostly conducted experimentally. It was shown that the influence of the electric current

Antimony deposition onto Au(111) and insertion of Mg

• Lingxing Zan,
• Da Xing,
• Abdelaziz Ali Abd-El-Latif and
• Helmut Baltruschat

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2541–2552, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.245

• insertion material, because magnesium can form intermetallic compounds with antimony. In addition, Sb has a rhombohedral crystal structure, which can form an alloy over a wide composition range [6][7]. The high initial capacity of 298 mAh/g at 1C rate has been reported for electrochemical magnetization at

Electron interactions with the heteronuclear carbonyl precursor H₂FeRu₃(CO)₁₃ and comparison with HFeCo₃(CO)₁₂: from fundamental gas phase and surface science studies to focused electron beam induced deposition

• Ragesh Kumar T P,
• Paul Weirich,
• Lukas Hrachowina,
• Marc Hanefeld,
• Ragnar Bjornsson,
• Helgi Rafn Hrodmarsson,
• Sven Barth,
• D. Howard Fairbrother,
• Michael Huth and
• Oddur Ingólfsson

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 555–579, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.53

Diffusion and surface alloying of gradient nanostructured metals

• Zhenbo Wang and
• Ke Lu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 547–560, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.59

• energy in the GNS substrates produced by SMAT [38], an additional driving force will be provided for the formation of intermetallic compounds. For example, the stored energy value in the GNS Fe is estimated to be ≈2.07 kJ·mol−1 according to the value in a nanostructured Fe synthesized by ball milling [61

Monolayer graphene/SiC Schottky barrier diodes with improved barrier height uniformity as a sensing platform for the detection of heavy metals

• Ivan Shtepliuk,
• Jens Eriksson,
• Volodymyr Khranovskyy,
• Tihomir Iakimov,
• Anita Lloyd Spetz and
• Rositsa Yakimova

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1800–1814, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.173

• individual heavy metals in simultaneous presence of other heavy metals [8]; 6) passivation of the electrodes due to adsorption of different non-metallic substances [9]; (7) poor reproducibility due to the formation of intermetallic compounds; (8) hydrolysis at the electrode [12]. Furthermore, an additional

Metal hydrides: an innovative and challenging conversion reaction anode for lithium-ion batteries

• Luc Aymard,
• Yassine Oumellal and
• Jean-Pierre Bonnet

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1821–1839, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.186

• intermetallic compounds, typical discharge curves obtained from ternary hydrides LaNi4MnH5, TiNiH [12], bcc Ti0.20V0.78Fe0.02H1.55 and Mg0.65Sc0.35H2.25 are presented in Figure 3b. Lengths of discharge curves of x = 4.8, 1.2, 1.3, and 2.2 are recorded for LaNi4MnH5, TiNiH, bcc Ti0.20V0.78Fe0.02H1.55 and

• addition, the far-from-equilibrium electrochemical process is an interesting tool to search for new intermetallic compounds consisting of Mg and Fe or Co [20][21]. As shown in Section I.3, Mg2MHx (M = Fe, Co, Ni , x = 6,5,4) react with lithium at roughly the same potential (around 0.25 V vs Li+/Li0) and

• confirmed by XAS and Mössbauer spectroscopy [22]. Ex situ XAS spectroscopy of the Mg2CoH5 and Mg2NiH4 electrodes revealed the formation of disordered MgCo and Mg2Ni intermetallic compounds. The intensity reduction of the XRD lines, which occurs without broadening, involves shifts of the lattice parameters

Formation of Cu_xAu_1−x phases by cold homogenization of Au/Cu nanocrystalline thin films

• Alona Tynkova,
• Gabor L. Katona,
• Gabor A. Langer,
• Sergey I. Sidorenko,
• Svetlana M. Voloshko and
• Dezso L. Beke

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1491–1500, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.162

• intermetallic compounds; secondary neutral mass spectrometry (SNMS); solid state reaction; Introduction Solid-state reactions in nanostructured thin film systems are interesting and challenging not only from the point of view of pure fundamental research, but are also important for technological applications

Synthesis, characterization, and growth simulations of Cu–Pt bimetallic nanoclusters

• Subarna Khanal,
• Ana Spitale,
• Nabraj Bhattarai,
• Daniel Bahena,
• J. Jesus Velazquez-Salazar,
• Sergio Mejía-Rosales,
• Marcelo M. Mariscal and
• Miguel José-Yacaman

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1371–1379, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.150

• are good catalysts for the ORR. Yun and co-workers [34] developed a unified embedded atom model to investigate the most energetically favorable atomic arrangements of Pd–Pt, Cu–Pt, Au–Pt and Ag–Pt nanoalloys using Monte Carlo simulations, obtaining intermetallic compounds for the Pd–Pt system, onion

In situ growth optimization in focused electron-beam induced deposition

• Paul M. Weirich,
• Marcel Winhold,
• Christian H. Schwalb and
• Michael Huth

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 919–926, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.103

• significant progress could be made in understanding the charge transport regimes in nanogranular metals [8][9][10]. In addition, by the controlled combination of two precursors it has become possible to prepare amorphous binary alloys [11][12], as well as nanogranular intermetallic compounds [13]. As the

Structural and thermoelectric properties of TMGa₃ (TM = Fe, Co) thin films

• Sebastian Schnurr,
• Ulf Wiedwald,
• Paul Ziemann,
• Valeriy Y. Verchenko and
• Andrei V. Shevelkov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 461–466, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.54

• ≤ 300 K. Keywords: amorphous metal films; energy related; intermetallic compounds; nanomaterials; Seebeck coefficient; thermoelectric properties; thin metal films; Introduction Intermetallic compounds usually behave as metals. In some cases, however, when a compound contains both, d- and p-block

• metals, semiconducting behavior may emerge. The number of such semiconducting intermetallic compounds is quite limited. For instance, RuAl2 and RuGa2 with TiSi2 structure type [1], some Heusler alloys such as Fe2VAl [2], and several intermetallics of FeGa3 structure type [3][4] are known to be

• semiconducting intermetallic compounds formed due to the specific hybridization effects between narrow d- and broad sp-bands, rather than due to the formation of strong covalent bonds, structural disorder completely removes the gap. Besides smearing out small features in the electronic density of states

Synthesis and thermoelectric properties of Re₃As_6.6In_0.4 with Ir₃Ge₇ crystal structure

• Valeriy Y. Verchenko,
• Anton S. Vasiliev,
• Alexander A. Tsirlin,
• Vladimir A. Kulbachinskii,
• Vladimir G. Kytin and
• Andrei V. Shevelkov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 446–452, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.52

• such as Zn4Sb3 [8], and various inorganic and intermetallic compounds with complex crystal structures [9][10]. Compounds with the Ir3Ge7 structure type, namely Mo3Sb5+δTe2−δ [11], Nb3Sb2Te5 [12] and Re3As7−xGex [13], belong to the latter type of potential thermoelectric materials and have recently

Focused electron beam induced deposition: A perspective

• Michael Huth,
• Fabrizio Porrati,
• Christian Schwalb,
• Marcel Winhold,
• Roland Sachser,
• Maja Dukic,
• Jonathan Adams and
• Georg Fantner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2012, 3, 597–619, doi:10.3762/bjnano.3.70

• intermetallic compounds with cooperative ground states. Results: After a brief introduction to the technique, recent work concerning FEBID of Pt–Si alloys and (hard-magnetic) Co–Pt intermetallic compounds on the nanometer scale is reviewed. The growth process in the presence of two precursors, whose flux is

• tend to form either alloys and intermetallic compounds, or that are continuously mixable, a crystallized product may be expected even under rapid growth conditions, such as in FEBID. In this section two examples of binary FEBID will be discussed. So far, very little work has been done in this field

• intermetallic phases, two of which are superconductors. It is thus worthwhile discussing the Pt–Si system in some more detail. Pt–Si FEBID structures As already alluded to in the last subsection the binary phase diagram of the Pt–Si system reveals two intermetallic compounds, which have a superconducting ground