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Electrocatalytic and Photoelectrochemical Properties of Nanotubular TiO2 Electrodes Thermally Treated in Air and Hydrogen
Photoelectrochemical, structural, and electrocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanotubes obtained by the anodization of titanium with subsequent thermal treatment in air or hydrogen were studied. Th...
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Infrared Spectroscopy of Ultrablack Films Based on Electrodeposited Ni–P Alloys
Ultrablack films produced by etching electrodeposited Ni–P (5.5 at% P) coatings in an oxidizing medium were studied by infrared spectroscopy. It was shown that nickel phosphates and pyrophosphates of different...
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A set of measuring microwave resonators
An universal set of broadband high-Q measuring resonators operating in a frequency band of 0.6–180 GHz is described. The resonators may be used for physical investigations, measuring parameters of different me...
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Studying Ni-B alloys with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
Ni and Ni-B films that contain 4–20 at % boron are produced by electroplating from baths containing sodium decahydroclovodecarborate and borane-morpholine as boron sources. The chemical state of Ni, B, and O a...
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Structure and tribological behavior of Ni-B and Co-B galvanic coatings
The structure and tribological properties of Ni-B and Co-B galvanic coatings with boron concentration from 4 to 20 at % are investigated. The coatings containing over 8 at % B are shown to have amorphous struc...
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Photocatalytic lithography with image inversion
The feasibility of the inversion of metal images obtained by the chemical deposition of nickel onto Pd2+-loaded films of nanostructural TiO2 exposed to high irradiation doses has been demonstrated. This permits t...
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Chemical composition, structure, and properties of electrochemically deposited cobalt-boron coatings
Polycrystalline and amorphous cobalt-boron coatings were electrochemically deposited. The effect of the boron content and heating temperature on the physicomechanical properties of the coatings was studied. A ...
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Photocatalytic lithography based on thin films of amorphous hydrated titanium dioxide
The mechanism of photoactivation of amorphous hydrated titanium dioxide thin films containing palladium ions toward the reaction of electroless deposition of nickel was studied. It was shown that the photocata...
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Low-temperature plasma-chemical synthesis of carbon nanotubes on nickel patterns obtained by the photocatalytic-lithography method
Ordered carbon nanosize structures have been obtained on a catalytic substrate at a low temperature (200°C). The carbon-containing blend was activated by the plasma of a pulsed barrier discharge at atmospheric...
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Electrochemically Deposited Zinc-Nickel Alloys
The mechanism of formation of a zinc-nickel alloy under the conditions of normal and anomalous electrochemical codeposition (accompanied by enrichment of the deposit with nickel or zinc) were studied. The mann...
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Deposition, Structure, and Properties of Electroplated Zinc Coating Alloyed with Cobalt
Specific features of deposition, structure, physicomechanical (microhardness, wear resistance), corrosion-protective, and electrical properties of an electrochemical zinc-cobalt coating containing 0.05 to 28 w...
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Amorphous fine-particle Ni-B powders
The chemical reduction of Ni2+ by aqueous sodium borohydride yields fine-particle Ni-B powders containing 11 to 43 at. % B, depending on solution composition and precipitation temperature. The crystallization pro...
