正极材料Li3V2（PO4）3的合成及其电化学性能

通过碳热还原法合成了锂离子电池正极材料Li3V2（PO4）3，考察了不同合成温度、时间对产物晶形结构、形貌和电化学性能的影响。结果表明，当合成温度、时间分别为800℃，20h时，所合成的样品属于单斜晶系，且粒度大小分布比较均匀，该材料以0．2C充放电，其首次放电容量为120mAh·g^-1，循环30次后其比容量达108mAh·g^-1。     

合成方法对LiNi0．4Co0．2Mn0．4O2电化学性能的影响

分别采用混合氢氧化物法和溶胶．凝胶法制备了三元的锂离子电池LiNi0．4Co0．2Mn0．4O2正极材料。采用XRD，SEM以及BET等方法对正极材料进行表征，并对其电化学性能进行测试。实验结果表明，不同的合成方法和工艺条件导致了材料的晶相结构、表观形貌、比表面积以及电化学性能上的差异。LiNi0．4Co0．2Mn0．4O2正极材料中出现的阳离子相互占位将导致其电化学性能变差。与溶胶．凝胶法制备的样品相比，混合氢氧化物法制备的样品具有较高的比表面积（3．2m2／g）和较高的放电比容量。在充放电电压范围为2．5～4．3V、充放电电流为20mA／g条件下，混合氢氧化物法所制备样品的首次放电比容量为180．1mAh·g^-1，20次循环后放电容量为160．2mAh·g^-1，并显示出较好的循环稳定性。     

共沉淀法制备正极材料LiFePO4的研究

以氢氧化锂、硫酸亚铁铵和磷酸氢二铵为原料，研究了液相共沉淀法制备LiFePO4正极材料和掺杂Co^2＋的LiFePO4改性正极材料，并对其进行XRD、SEM分析和电化学性能测试。结果表明掺杂Co^2＋对正极材料的初始充电比容量为156．7mAh·g^-1，且循环60次后，容量仍有138．7mAh·g^-1，容量衰减率仅为11．4％。     

非晶态纳米氢氧化镍电极材料物理特性与电化学性能

采用快速冷冻沉淀法制备出了非晶态纳米氢氧化镍。对制得材料样品进行了XRD，SEM，TEM，DSC和比表面积与孔径分析，将其制成MH-Ni电池正极材料进行充放电性能测试。结果表明：材料粉体为非品态，颗粒粒度为纳米级，类似球形。非晶纳米Ni（OH）2的热分解温度286．4℃低于常规球形Ni（OH）2的热分解温度333.8℃，同时具有较大得比表面积和孔径，分别为76．2089m^2·g^-1和37．7nm。与普通β-Ni（OH）2相比较，非晶态纳米氢氧化镍电极充电电压低，放电电压平台时间长，且高达1．258V，放电比容量为349．85mAh／g，具有较好的循环性能，20次循环后其容量衰减仅为1．28％。     

Ni^2＋掺杂对LiFePO4正极材举电化学性能的影响

采用固相反应法在惰性气氛下合成了橄榄石型LiFePO4及其Ni^2＋掺杂正极材料,采用XRD,SEM和充放电等方法对目标材料进行了表征。XRD分析表明,掺杂少量Ni^2＋后的LiFePO4晶体结构并未发生变化;SEM观察发现,掺杂后,样品的粒径变小;充放电测试得出,比未掺杂的LiFePO4具有更好的电化学性能,首次放电比容量达145mAh·g^-1,高于纯的LiFePO4正极材料的容量90mAh·g^-1,经100次循环后掺杂Ni^2＋的LiFePO4和LiFePO4样品的容量保有率分别为91％和53％。     

碳包覆镍掺杂LiFePO4正极材料的合成与电化学性能

采用水热法在160℃下合成了单相橄榄石结构的LiFePO4和LiFe0.95Ni0.05PO4。经550℃聚丙稀裂解碳包覆后得到LiFePO4／C的颗粒尺寸在200nm左右，碳包覆镍掺杂LiFe0.95Ni0.05PO4/C的颗粒尺寸在100nm以下。电化学测试结果表明：LiFePO4/C和LiFe0.95PO4／C的0．1C首次充放电可逆容量分别达到154mAh·g^-1和149mAh·g^-1，但掺镍的LiFe0.95Ni0．05PO4／C具有更优异的大电流充放电循环特性，0．5C和1C充放电100次后的放电容量分别达到147mAb·g^-1和134mAh·g^-1。     

表面包覆改善球形Ni（OH）2高温性能的研究

采用Yb／Co氢氧化物共沉淀包覆方法和Ca3（PO4）2与Co（OH）2分别沉淀分层包覆方法在球形Ni（OH）2的表面进行了均匀的包覆。前者利用COSO4，YbCl3和NaOH溶液进行共沉淀包覆，后者是先在球形Ni（OH）2的表面沉淀包覆Ca3（PO4）2，然后再沉淀包覆Co（OH）2。结果显示，两种包覆方法均能有效地提高球形Ni（OH）2的高温（60℃）性能。按照Yb／Co=0．75％：2％共沉淀包覆的试样制成AA型电池后，在60℃下1C放电的容量保持率达到常温下的90％。而2％Ca3（P04）2与2％Co（OH）2分层包覆后的球形Ni（OH）2制成AA型电池后，在60℃下1C放电的容量保持率达到常温下的81％。未包覆和仅用Co（OH）2包覆的球形Ni（OH）2制成的AA型电池，在60℃下1C放电的容量保持率分别只有46％和48％。通过循环伏安测试表明，利用表面包覆的方法可以增大正极材料Ni（OH）2在高温下的氧化电位、析氧电位和两者之间的电位差，从而提高了材料在高温下的电化学性能。     

锂离子电池正极材料LiCoO2-LiFePO4的性能

研究用LiCoO2-LiFePO4作正极的锂离子电池的电化学性能和安全性能。结果表明:电池在1、3和5C倍率的放电容量分别为347.7、327.2和322.5 mA.h,5C条件下的放电容量为1C放电容量的92.8%。在25℃、1C条件下循环150次的容量保持率为100%;在?10℃、1C条件下的放电容量为256.5 mA.h,是25℃、1C放电容量的74.8%。电池具有很好的耐过充性能,在3C、10 V条件下进行过充电,电池不漏液、起火或爆炸。短路时电池的表面温度低于LiCoO2电池的表面温度。     

LiFe1-xMgxPO4的制备及其电化学性能

采用干法高能球磨-一步固相反应合成LiFe1-xMgxPO4（x=0,0．01,0．05,0．10和0．20）正极材料。利用x射线衍射仪、扫描电镜和能量色散谱表征样品的晶体结构、形貌和Mg元素分布,并研究Mg掺杂量对LiFePO4材料电化学性能的影响。结果表明,制备的LiFe1-xMgxPO4（0≤x≤0．10）为纯相,且LiFe1-xMgxPO4（x=0,0．01,0．05,0．10和0．20）晶粒尺寸随掺杂量的增大而增大。LiFe1-xMgxPO4的放电容量最佳,室温0．1c倍率下充放电其首次放电容量为150．8mA·h/g,即使在1C倍率下放电时也有129．9mA·h／g的容量,循环性能较好。     

Zr-Ti系贮氢合金表面改性研究

采用化学镀镍、镀钴、机械混合以及球磨几种方法对Zr-Ti系贮氢合金进行了表面改性。XRD结果表明，随着镀镍量的增加，合金越趋向微晶化；球磨时间越长，合金的衍射峰更加弥散化，充放电试验结果表明，当镀镍量为15％(质量分数，下同)时，贮氢合金在60mA.g^-1的电流密度下初始容量比未处理的合金高出130mAh．g^-1，经过6次～8次循环完全活化，最大放电容量可达400mAh．g^-1，随着镀镍量的增加，抗自放电能力增加；当镀钴量为5％时，贮氢合金在60mA．g^-1的电流密度下初始容量比未处理的合金高出40mAh．g^-1，经过7次～9次循环完全活化，最大放电容量可达390mAh．g^-1，但随着镀钴量的增加，初始容量上升较快，但放电容量在减少；而机械混合仅提高初始容量，对最大放电容量没有改善；球磨不仅改善贮氢合金的活化性能，并且其最大放电容量可达450mAh．g^-1。     

Effects of Post-weld Heat Treatment on Microstructure,Mechanical Properties and the Role of Weld Reinforcement in 2219 Aluminum Alloy TIG-Welded Joints

In as-welded state, each region of 2219 aluminum alloy TIG-welded joint shows diff erent microstructure and microhardness due to the diff erent welding heat cycles and the resulting evolution of second phases. After the post-weld heat treatment, both the amount and the size of the eutectic structure or θ phases decreased. Correspondingly, both the Cu content in α-Al matrix and the microhardness increased to a similar level in each region of the joint, and the tensile strength of the entire joint was greatly improved. Post-weld heat treatment played the role of solid solution strengthening and aging strengthening. After the post-weld heat treatment, the weld performance became similar to other regions, but weld reinforcements lost their reinforcing eff ect on the weld and their existence was more of an adverse eff ect. The joint without weld reinforcements after the post-weld heat treatment had the optimal tensile properties, and the specimens randomly crack in the weld zone.     

The First Phase of the SRIF Industrialized Base in ＂West Area＂ Has Been Put into Operation

After nearly two years＇ tense construction, the first phase of industrialized base of Shenyang Research Institute of Foundry （SRIF）, located at the Tiexi Casting and Forging Industrial Park in the west of Tiexi District, has now been completed and formally put into operation.     

Thermodynamics Study on the Decomposition of Chromite with KOH

Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, has proposed a method for oxidative leaching of chromite with potassium hydroxide. Understanding the mechanism of chromite decomposition, especially in the potassium hydroxide fusion, is important for the optimization of the operating parameters of the oxidative leaching process. A traditional thermodynamic method is proposed and the thermal decomposition and the reaction decomposition during the oxidative leaching of chromite with KOH and oxygen is discussed, which suggests that chromite is mainly destroyed by reactions with KOH and oxygen. Meanwhile, equilibrium of the main reactions of the above process was calculated at different temperatures and oxygen partial pressures. The stable zones of productions, namely, K2CrO4 and Fe2O3, increase with the decrease of temperature, which indicates that higher temperature is not beneficial to thermodynamic reactions. In addition, a comparison of the general alkali methods is carried out, and it is concluded that the KOH leaching process is thermodynamically superior to the conventional chromate production process.     

Influence of Heat Treatment on Damping Behaviour of the Magnesium Wrought Alloy AZ61

The effect of isochronal heat treatments for 1h on variation of damping, hardness and microstructural change of the magnesium wrought alloy AZ61 was investigated. Damping and hardness behaviour could be attributed to the evolution of precipitation process. The influence of precipitation on damping behaviour was explained in the framework of the dislocation string model of Granato and Lücke.     

Effect of Rare Earth Doping on Impedance,Modulus and Conductivity Properties of Multiferroic Composites:0.5(BiLa_xFe_(1-x)O_3)–0.5(PbTiO_3)

The Lanthanum-doped bismuth ferrite–lead titanate compositions of 0.5(Bi LaxFe1-xO3)–0.5(Pb Ti O3)(x = 0.05,0.10,0.15,0.20)(BLxF1-x-PT) were prepared by mixed oxide method.Structural characterization was performed by X-ray diffraction and shows a tetragonal structure at room temperature.The lattice parameter c/a ratio decreases with increasing of La(x = 0.05–0.20) concentration of the composites.The effect of charge carrier/ion hopping mechanism,conductivity,relaxation process and impedance parameters was studied using an impedance analyzer in a wide frequency range(102–106Hz) at different temperatures.The nature of Nyquist plot confirms the presence of bulk effects only,and non-Debye type of relaxation processes occurs in the composites.The electrical modulus exhibits an important role of the hopping mechanism in the electrical transport process of the materials.The ac conductivity and dc conductivity of the materials were studied,and the activation energy found to be 0.81,0.77,0.76 and 0.74 e V for all compositions of x = 0.05–0.20 at different temperatures(200–300 °C).     

Using Finite Element and Contour Method to Evaluate Residual Stress in Thick Ti-6Al-4V Alloy Welded by Electron Beam Welding

This work was to reveal the residual stress profile in electron beam welded Ti-6Al-4V alloy plates(50 mm thick) by using finite element and contour measurement methods.A three-dimensional finite element model of 50-mmthick titanium component was proposed,in which a column–cone combined heat source model was used to simulate the temperature field and a thermo-elastic–plastic model to analyze residual stress in a weld joint based on ABAQUS software.Considering the uncertainty of welding simulation,the computation was calibrated by experimental data of contour measurement method.Both test and simulated results show that residual stresses on the surface and inside the weld zone are significantly different and present a narrow and large gradient feature in the weld joint.The peak tensile stress exceeds the yield strength of base materials inside weld,which are distinctly different from residual stress of the thin Ti-6Al-4V alloy plates presented in references before.     

Microstructures and Tensile Properties of Ultrafine-Grained Ni–(1–3.5) wt% SiC_(NP) Composites Prepared by a Powder Metallurgy Route

Silicon carbide nanoparticle-reinforced nickel-based composites(Ni–Si CNP),with a Si CNPcontent ranged from1 to 3.5 wt%,were prepared using mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering.In addition,unreinforced pure nickel samples were also prepared for comparative purposes.To characterize the microstructural properties of both the unreinforced pure nickel and the Ni–Si CNPcomposites transmission electron microscopy(TEM) was used,while their mechanical behavior was investigated using the Vickers pyramid method for hardness measurements and a universal tensile testing machine for tensile tests.TEM results showed an array of dislocation lines decorated in the sintered pure nickel sample,whereas,for the Ni–Si CNPcomposites,the presence of nano-dispersed Si CNPand twinning crystals was observed.These homogeneously distributed Si CNPwere found located either within the matrix,between twins or on grain boundaries.For the Ni–Si CNPcomposites,coerced coarsening of the Si CNPassembly occurred with increasing Si CNPcontent.Furthermore,the grain sizes of the Ni–Si CNPcomposites were much finer than that of the unreinforced pure nickel,which was considered to be due to the composite ball milling process.In all cases,the Ni–Si CNPcomposites showed higher strengths and hardness values than the unreinforced pure nickel,likely due to a combination of dispersion strengthening(Orowan effects) and particle strengthening(Hall–Petch effects).For the Ni–Si CNPcomposites,the strength increased initially and then decreased as a function of Si CNPcontent,whereas their elongation percentages decreased linearly.Compared to all materials tested,the Ni–Si CNPcomposite containing 1.5% Si C was found more superior considering both their strength and plastic properties.     

Directional Growth of Tin Crystals Controlled by Combined Solute Concentration Gradient Field and Static Magnetic Field

A new method was introduced to achieve directional growth of Sn crystals. Microstructures in liquid(Pb)/liquid(Sn) diffusion couples were investigated under various static magnetic fields. Results show that the β-Sn crystals mainly reveal an irregular dendritic morphology without or with a relatively low static magnetic field(B0.3 T). When the magnetic field is increased to 0.5 T, the β-Sn dendrites close to the final stage of growth begin to show some directional character. With a further increase in the magnetic field to a higher level(0.8–5 T), the β-Sn dendrites have an enhanced directional growth character, but the dendrites show a certain deflection. As the magnetic field is increased to 12 T, the directional growth of the β-Sn dendrites in the center of the couple is severely destroyed. The mechanism of the directional growth of the β-Sn crystals and the deflection of the β-Sn crystals with the application of static magnetic field was tentatively discussed.     

Quantitative Analysis of the Crystallographic Orientation Relationship Between the Martensite and Austenite in Quenching–Partitioning–Tempering Steels

The orientation relationships(ORs)between the martensite and the retained austenite in low-and medium-carbon steels after quenching–partitioning–tempering process were studied in this work.The ORs in the studied steels are identified by selected-area electron diffraction(SAED)as either K–S or N–W ORs.Meanwhile,the ORs were also studied based on numerical fitting of electron backscatter diffraction data method suggested by Miyamoto.The simulated K–S and N–W ORs in the low-index directions generally do not well coincide with the experimental pole figure,which may be attributed to both the orientation spread from the ideal variant orientations and high symmetry of the low-index directions.However,the simulated results coincide well with experimental pole figures in the high-index directions{123}_(bcc).A modified method with simplicity based on Miyamoto’s work was proposed.The results indicate that the ORs determined by modified method are similar to those determined by Miyamoto’method,that is,the OR is near K–S OR for the low-carbon Q–P–T steel,and with the increase of carbon content,the OR is closer to N–W OR in medium-carbon Q–P–T steel.     

Growth Kinetics of Single Inclusion Particle in Molten Melts

On the basis of the single-particle framework, a new theory on inclusion growth in metallurgical melts is developed to study the kinetics of inclusion growth on account of reaction and collision. The studies show that the early growth of inclusion depends on reaction growth and Brawnian motion collision, and where the former is decisive, the late growth depends on turbulence collision and Stokes＇ collision, and where the former is dominant; collision growth is very quick during the smelting process, lessened in the refining process, but nearly negligible in the continuous casting process.