A new group of two-dimensional (2D) materials known as MXene has induced great interests in water purification due to their hydrophilic surface and abundant functional groups. Herein, the performance of 2D Ti2CTx MXene material for thorium (Th(IV)) removal is evaluated in detail. Under different...

Thorium and its compounds (carbides and nitrides) are being investigated as possible materials to be used as nuclear fuels for Generation-IV reactors. As a first step in the research of these materials under irradiation, we study the formation energies and stability of point defects in thorium n...

The δ-TaN films were fabricated through reactive magnetron sputtering deposition technique onto WC-Co substrate. The texture of δ-TaN films can be tuned by adjusting the sputtering power and working gas pressure to vary the ion energy and mobility of particles. The underdense structure observe...

Ta3-xMxNy (M = Re, Fe, Co; x = 0, 0.25, 0.5, 1) materials with different microstructural features (e.g. surface area) were successfully prepared using different synthesis techniques. The dependence of nitrogen transfer properties upon tantalum nitride microstructure and its chemical composition ...

The objective of the present work is to investigate the effect of DC power variation on structural, wettability and tribological properties of tantalum nitride coatings deposited by DC reactive magnetron sputtering. The X-ray diffraction graphs of tantalum nitride coating show evolution of vario...

This paper explores tantalum and tantalum nitride thin films produced by filtered cathodic vacuum arc deposition method as bio-stable surface treatment for Ti6Al4V titanium alloy. Effect of nitrogen to argon gas ratio on microstructure of the deposited film has been investigated. Corrosion behav...

In this paper, a novel process about the silicothermic reduction of molybdenum disulfide was proposed to prepare molybdenum silicides. This new method has a short process, which is beneficial for energy saving, environmental protection and cost reduction relative to the traditional methods by us...

In the past few years, a lot of attention has been directed to the synthesis of nanosized transition metal chalcogenides and their composites with noble metal nanoparticles. Materials of this type demonstrate enhanced properties in energy storage, catalysis and surface enhanced Raman spectroscop...

Polyaniline (PANI)–molybdenum trisulfide (MoS3) electrode, prepared by a multi-step procedure, and polyaniline electrode were characterized in non-aqueous electrolyte (0.5 M LiClO4/acetonitrile) by cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and the electrochemical quartz crystal...

Polypyrrole films doped with molybdenum trisulfide and tetrathiomolybdate anions have been prepared from an aqueous solution containing pyrrole and ammonium tetrathiomolybdate in the presence of tiron, (4, 5-dihydroxy-1, 3-benzenedisulfonic acid), in the deposition solution. In such a solution t...

Currently, all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries without polysulfide shuttle effect still can not realize high energy density batteries at room temperature due to the insulating nature and large volume change of sulfur. Herein, ultrafine amorphous molybdenum trisulfide (MoS3) nanoparticles un...

A series of molybdenum nitride films, viz., Mo3N2, Ag-Mo3N2, V-Mo3N2 and Cu-Mo3N2 have been fabricated by magnetron co-sputtering technique and evaluated as HER electrocatalysts in near-neutral pH (pH 5) buffer medium. An optimal HER activity has been observed at about 1.8 M phosphate buffer wit...

Water evaporation and steam production have been recognized to be considerably crucial due to the vast applications, ranging from waste water treatment, water purification, to alternative green energy solutions by water splitting, catalysis, and in-door heating. Albeit the big variety of phototh...

Molybdenum nitride (MoNx) coatings were deposited onto AISI M2 tool steel substrates (hardened to HRC 60) by magnetron sputtering. The nitrogen content was controlled by means of a closed-loop optical emission monitor. The coating microstructure was examined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, ...

A molybdenum alloy (TZM: 0.50 wt% titanium, 0.08 wt% zirconium and 0.02 wt% carbon with balanced molybdenum) was used to investigate its response to plasma nitriding in terms of layer formation and hardening at temperatures between 500 and 760 °C using various times. A thin hard nitride case pl...

Lithium-sulfur (LiS) batteries are attractive candidates for advanced energy storage devices. However, the low utilization of sulfur and the severe “shuttle effect” hinder the commercialization of LiS batteries. Herein, we design an ultra-thin and lightweight two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum ni...

The molybdenum nitride films were fabricated by RF magnetron sputtering with various structural features by input power and gas flow ratio modulation. With Ar/N2 gas flow ratios from 10/10 to 18/2 and RF input powers from 150 to 300 W, the molybdenum nitride films evolved from significant crysta...

A new methodology was developed to fabricate solid molybdenum nitride microdisc electrodes for the first time. The MoN microrods were produced by heating Mo microwires in dry NH3 atmosphere for several hours. They were characterised by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive spectr...

We report preparation and electrochemical properties of molybdenum nitride MoxN (x from 1 to 2) and Mo thin films prepared by the magnetron sputtering. We adjusted amount of nitrogen during reactive sputtering, to achieve different ratios of Mo:N in the films. We could prepare well-defined and e...

The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is an essential process for water electrolysis and to realize the scalability of renewable energy sources. In this work, a strategy is developed to fabricate anisotropic metallic Cobalt-Molybdenum Nitride materials combining hollow 3D structures and 2D nanoshe...