X-ray diffraction and mossbauer spectra of nickel ferrite prepared by combustion reaction

Nickel ferrite powders with a nominal NiFe2O4 composition were synthesized by combustion reaction using urea as fuel. The powder was obtained using a vitreous silica basin heated directly on a hot plate at 480 degrees C until self-ignition occurred. After combustion, the powder was calcined at 700 degrees C for 2 h. The formation of the spinel phase and the distribution of cations in the tetrahedral and octahedral sites of the crystal structure were investigated by the Rietveld method, using synchrotron X-ray diffraction data and Mossbauer spectroscopy. The material presented a crystallite size of 120 nm and magnetic properties. The resulting stoichiometry after the Rietveld refinement was (Fe-0.989(2) Ni-0.011(2)) [Fe-1.012(2) Ni-0.989(2)] O-4.

Structural XANES characterization of Ca0.99Sm0.01TiO3 perovskite and correlation with photoluminescence emission

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Synthesis of Fine Micro-sized BaZrO3 Powders Based on a Decaoctahedron Shape by the Microwave-Assisted Hydrothermal Method

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Quantum Mechanics Insight into the Microwave Nucleation of SrTiO3 Nanospheres

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Black and green pigments based on chromium-cobalt spinels

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Electrochemical and spectroscopic studies of tungstencarbonyl complexes containing nitrogen and phosphorous ligands

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Redox Behavior of molybdenum and tungsten in phosphate glasses

In this work, vitreous samples were prepared in the binary system (100 - x)NaPO3-xMO(3) with M = Mo and W and x varying from 10 to 60. The transmittance properties in the UV, visible, and near-infrared were monitored as a function of MO3 concentration. In both cases, an increase in the amount of transition metal results in an intense and broad absorption band in the visible and near-infrared attributed to metal reduction under synthesis conditions. It was shown that this large absorption can be partially or totally removed using specific oxidizing agents or by improving synthesis parameters such as melting temperature or cooling rate of the melt. In addition, structural investigations by Raman and X-ray absorption spectroscopy suggest that reduction only occurs when the metal cation is in octahedral geometry and that the transmittance improvement is not related with any structural changes. These results were explained in terms of thermodynamic equilibrium of redox species in the melt and allowed to obtain for the first time transparent and chemically stable glasses containing high concentrations of MO3 with transition metals in octahedral geometry inside the glass network.

Structural study of thin films prepared from tungstate glass matrix by Raman and X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Thin films were prepared using glass precursors obtained in the ternary system NaPO(3)-BaF(2)-WO(3) and the binary system NaPO(3)-WO(3) with high concentrations of WO(3) (above 40% molar). Vitreous samples have been used as a target to prepare thin films. Such films were deposited using the electron beam evaporation method onto soda-lime glass substrates. Several structural characterizations were performed by Raman spectroscopy and X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy (XANES) at the tungsten L(I) and L(III) absorption edges. XANES investigations showed that tungsten atoms are only sixfold coordinated (octahedral WO(6)) and that these films are free of tungstate tetrahedral units (WO(4)). In addition, Raman spectroscopy allowed identifying a break in the linear phosphate chains as the amount of WO(3) increases and the formation of P-O-W bonds in the films network indicating the intermediary behavior of WO(6) octahedra in the film network. Based on XANES data, we suggested a new attribution of several Raman absorption bands which allowed identifying the presence of W-O and W=O terminal bonds and a progressive apparition of W-O-W bridging bonds for the most WO(3) concentrated samples (above 40% molar) attributed to the formation of WO(6) clusters. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Investigação por espectroscopia Mössbauer de compostos de ferro(0) contendo dissulfeto de carbono

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Avaliação postural em pacientes com doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica

O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar alterações posturais em pacientes com Doença Pulmonar Obstrutiva Crônica (DPOC), por meio do Software para Avaliação Postural (SAPO). Trinta indivíduos constituíram 2 grupos: 15 pacientes com DPOC e 15 idosos saudáveis (controle). Os grupos realizaram espirometria e foram fotografados para avaliação postural. As imagens obtidas foram digitalizadas e, posteriormente, avaliou-se dez alterações posturais com o SAPO [inclinação lateral da cabeça (ILC), desnivelamento dos ombros (DO), desnivelamento pélvico anterior (DPA), inclinação lateral do tronco (ILT), desnivelamento das escápulas (DE), desnivelamento pélvico posterior (DPP), protusão da cabeça (PC), protusão de ombro (PO), báscula anterior da pelve (BAP) e cifose torácica (CT)]. Essas alterações, obtidas no grupo controle, foram conferidas com o padrão de normalidade para adultos jovens, proposto em estudo prévio. Para a comparação das alterações posturais entre grupo controle e DPOC, foi utilizado o teste de Mann-Whitney em grupo controle, e em adultos jovens, o teste t de Student não pareado, ambos com nível de significância estatística de 5%. Dentre as dez alterações posturais, o grupo controle apresentou sete (ILC, DPA, DE, DPP, PC, PO, BAP) com valores angulares significativamente maiores em relação aos adultos jovens. Quando comparados a idosos saudáveis, indivíduos com DPOC apresentaram um aumento significante na angulação de BAP, DPP e CT. Pacientes com DPOC apresentam três alterações posturais que provavelmente estão relacionadas à doença.

Isomerismo cis-trans: de Werner aos nossos dias

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Investigação espectroscópica dos carbonilos heterobimetálicos cis-[Fe(CO)4(HgX)2], X = Cl, Br,I

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Correlação entre dados estruturais e bandas de vibração no infravermelho para a fase espinélio Zn7-xNi xSb2O12

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A solid nickel(II) complex with methionine sulfoxide

Solid Ni(C(5)H(10)NO(3)S)(2) . 2H(2)O complex was prepared and characterized. Electronic absorption spectrum shows an octahedral geometry for the complex. Infrared spectroscopy analysis shows that the metal atom is coordinated to the ligand through (COO(-)) and (S = O) groups. Thermal analysis confirmed the composition of the complex and suggests that the water molecules are not coordinated to the metal ion. The complex shows extremely high solubility in water. (C) 2000 Elsevier B.V. S.A. All rights reserved.

Synthesis, electrochemical behavior and X-ray crystal and molecular structures of [Fe(diene)(CO)(2)PPh3] (diene = chalcone, sorbic acid)

The compounds [Fe(ch)(CO)(2)PP3] (1) (ch = chalcone) and [Fe(sba)(CO)(2)PPh3] (2) (sba = sorbic acid) were prepared by irradiating the tetracarbonyltriphenylphosphineiron(0) complex in benzene in the presence of ch or sba. The compounds were characterized by infrared and P-31 NMR spectroscopies. Their electrochemical behavior was investigated by cyclic voltammetry and the results suggest that their oxidations occur by more than one electrochemical step, producing free ch and sba, free PPh3 and solvated Fe(III). It was observed that sba ligand contributes more effectively to the stabilization of metal center in these complexes, the X-ray crystal and molecular structures of 1 and 2 were determined; it was shown that the Fe atom adopts a distorted octahedral coordinated geometry in which three of the sites are occupied by the ch or sba ligand. The [Fe(ch)(CO)(2)PPh3] complex is a monomer and the unit cell of complex 2 contains exist two identical and crystallographically independent molecules of [Fe(sba)(CO)(2)PPh3] which are linked by short hydrogen bonds O-H . . .O (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier B.V. Ltd.