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In this project Ni-SiC nanocomposite coatings were electrodeposited using Watts nickel bath with addition of SiC particles to the bath. Optimization of Ni-SiC electrodeposition parameters was done using Response Surface Methodology (RSM). At specific conditions, 67 Vol% of 10nm SiC is incorporated in nickel electrodeposits which is unique and not yet reported. Study nanomechanical properties of these coatings using Nanoindentation method, it was realized that the dislocation density is increased as force increasing which is in agreement with increasing intensity of (220) and (200) reflections and intensity attenuation of (111) reflection. Nanoscratch tests show that these... 

Conventional solid phase microextraction fibers posses relatively low recommended operating temperature, instability and swelling in organic solvents, breakage of the fiber, stripping of coatings, and bending of the needle. Some of these problems have been obviated by covalent bonding of the polymer phase to the fused-silica substrate by sol-gel technology, but the easy breakage of the fiber still is a remaining challenge In this work, after successful fabrication of unbreakable SPME fibers based on 3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl methacrylate precursor deposited on the surface of copper wire, the same approach was carried out to synthesis new sol-gel based SPME fibers. Three different coated... 

In the present work preparation of Ni-TiO2 films and their microstructural and mechanical properties were studied. For film preparation, DC current mode of electrochemical deposition method was used in Watts Nickel bath with different concentrations of transparent TiO2 sol up to 30 mL/L. It presents a new generation of nano Ni-TiO2 coating as a composite film for corrosion and erosion resistance applications. The best wear volume of 0.0046 mm3 was achieved for 30 mL/L Ni-TiO2 nanocomposite in comparison to 0.0071 mm3 for pure Ni film. Moreover, the coating hardness increased to ~345 HV50 for Ni-TiO2 nanocomposite. Corrosion rate of the coatings improved down to 1.10E-05 mm/year with addition... 

Fabrication of porous hybrid coatings, specially in combination with carbon compounds, can improve the electrochemical behavior of the coating. In this study, graphene oxide (GO) was first synthesized by tour method. After examining different methods to create a porous coating, the electrochemical coating method for simultaneous deposition of GO and nickel on the copper substrate was selected. CTAB was used to form nanometer porosity in the coating structure. In order to investigate the effect of GO on the properties of the deposited coating, two porous coatings of nickel (Ni) and nickel reduced-graphene oxide (Ni-rGO) were investigated by different analyzes. These analyzes include FESEM... 

Functionally Graded Material (FGM)is attaining more and more interests recently due to its outstanding feature of possessing benefits of physical and mechanical properties of two materials in one part. One of the common processes to fabricate FGM is laser directed energy deposition of pre-mixed powder of two materials. The powder stream and laser attenuation in LDED of FGM is studied in this dissertation by the aid of numerical simulation and experimental investigations. Due to numerical simulation results, which is done in FLUENT software, powder particle size and axial shielding gas flow rate has significant effect on composition of powder mixture falling into the molten pool. Considering... 

Barium Strontium Titanate (BST) thin films are a promising candidate for dielectric capacitors due to their excellent ferroelectric properties. It is well known that BST has a high dielectric constant, low loss tangent, low leakage current and low Curie temperature. Pulse laser deposition (PLD) has been used extensively as it can maintain the stoichiometry of the target in the deposited film and also has high coverage ability, which both are important in capacitors. In this paper, Ba0.6Sr0.4TiO3 (BST) thin film has been deposited on the SiO2/Si substrate by pulsed laser deposition technique. The effect of post-annealed temperature, oxygen pressure deposition ambience and number of pulses on... 

Decomposition of seawater with the help of sunlight is one of the most promising ways to produce hydrogen as a clean and acceptable fuel in the future. Tungsten photoelectrode is a suitable option for seawater decomposition due to its medium bandwidth, excellent load transfer properties, good chemical stability in acidic and neutral environments, abundance and cost-effectiveness. On the other hand, intermediate metal catalysts (Fe, Ni, Co) are very important due to their abundance in the earth's crust and their stability in alkaline and neutral environments instead of oxides of precious metals (RuO2, IrO2). In this study, tungsten plate (WO3) nanostructures were grown on the surface of a... 

Carbon nanotubes, due to their extraordinary electronic and physical properties, have attracted much attention in the last decade. Some of their potential applications are in CNT-field effect transistor, field emission devices, physical and chemical sensors, micro and Nanoelectromechanical systems and Nano antenna. In this thesis, we have first reviewed some features of carbon nanotubes and the advantages of PECVD method compared with thermal CVD. In the second part the role of some of the materials (such as H2/NH3/C2H4) in CNT growth are studied. We created a square pattern on the silicon wafer by photolithography. Afterwards, titanium and nickel deposition is done on the mentioned pattern.... 

During 1980s Additive Manufacturing technologies for the purpose of prototyping with fast and less expensive, under the name of Rapid Prototyping was invented. But nowadays under the vast progress made in this field, it possesses a notable place in different industries such as automobile manufacturing, aerospace, architecture, medicine and so on for part manufacturing. In all AM machines, the CAD model design part is manufactured by adding layered to each other. In this research, at first by explaining manufacturing process and current different technologies, the place of this manufacturing process in today and future industry, is analyzed. For discussing replacement of this method instead... 

In this investigation, silica-based iron-metal catalyst was synthesized by the Atomic layer deposited (ALD) method with iron-acetylate (Fe(acac)3) as a precursor in different loading dosages. The synthesized catalyst were characterized by nitrogen absorption and excretion (BET), by Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Temperature-Programmed Reduction (TPR), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP) etc.
The temperature range of 180 to 200 °C was determined for the self-limited chemisorption of Fe(acac)3 on the silica surface as the first and the most important step in a single atomic cycle. Also the... 

In this study, growth of MWCNTs in form of thin film and powder for hydrogen storage was investigated. Different analytical techniques including SEM, TEM, STA, XRD, XPS, BET, BJH and Raman spectroscopy were applied to characterize the samples. The results showed that substrate, catalyst thickness and type of catalyst are influenced in yield of the growth, structure and quality of MWCNTs. The study has also indicated that MWCNTs grown on Fe-Pd bimetallic catalyst with 25-75 proportion had the highest growth yield. Moreover, decreasing of the growth temperature from 970 to 920 oC produced single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with high quality (IG/ID = 15.8) and low growth yield.... 

By consideration of increasing demands to use implants and efforts to get technical knowledge and localization of this implants, considerable research in this field is needed. Therefore, presentation of a coating which is able to provide parameters needed for an acceptable implant is the aim of this study. In this direction, modification of surface of metallic implants in order to achieve nanotubes of titanium oxide, with the purpose of providing biocompatibility was done. On the other hand, because chronic infection of the implant’s surrounding is one of the main important reasons in rejection of implants, 〖TiO〗_2 nanotubes as a drug carrier were used in order to solve this problem. So,... 

Asphaltene deposition, the heaviest and most polar component of crude oil, which causes great economic damage inside the reservoir, near wells, pipelines and well equipment, is an important challenge in the production of oil reservoirs. The main purpose of this study is to prob the adsorption kinetics and the mechanism of asphaltene adsorption on the metal surface by a quartz crystal microbalance device under different conditions of temperature, flow rate and degree of asphaltene instability. In this study, indirect uv-vis spectroscopic method was used to determine the onset of asphaltene precipitation, then experiments were designed using Taguchi method. A new QCM device has been designed... 

Titanium trisulfide (TiS3), a transition metal chalcogenide, bears the potential to replace silicon, when taking the form of nanoflakes, due to its favorable band gap and optical response. In this work, first we investigate the response of TiS3 nanoflakes to gas detection through a careful quantum computational approach and a few succinct measurements. The computations are benchmarked and compared with a relevant experiment at each step, where their results/conclusions are discussed. The most stable surface of TiS3 particles is determined to (001), in agreement with the literature. The adsorption of 5 gas molecules is characterized through formulating and estimating their adsorption... 

In this study, an alkaline bath for co-deposition of Fe and Pd was selected. In order to investigate the mechanism of deposition, each of the metals iron and palladium electrodeposited from selected bath separately; and the kinetics of electrodeposition by electrochemical techniques such as linear voltammetry, cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry and chronopotentiometry were evaluated. Electrodeposition processes of Fe, Pd and their alloy were irreversible and under diffusion of reducing agents are controlled. Moreover the electroreduction of palladium from utilized bath was performed in two steps. At following, the mechanism of iron– palladium alloy electrocrystallization was discussed and... 

Financial distress can propagate through different channels such as bank run, deposit interbank market,networks and asset prices. In this paper, with the assumption of deposit insurance, no linkages between banks, no deposit interbank market and fixed asset prices, we show that asset-side shocks might propagate through both loan interbank market and deposit market. However, when there is aggregate liquidity surplus in the banking system, loan interbank market results in the first best allocation. In contrast, aggregate liquidity shortage does not result in optimum allocation. In the presence of deposit and loan interbank market, not only shocks propagate but also they are magnified with the... 

Graphene based photodetectors which are modified with quantum dots, are the new generation of detectors. In these supplies an integration of graphene’s unique characteristics like high conductivity and mobility and the high light absorption of quantum dots, are used.In this research graphene by chemical vapor deposition in centimetric large scales, tungsten disulfide quantum dots, boron nitride and graphene quantum dots and 2D tungsten disulfide have been synthesized. In the next step each of them were characterized to modify the quality of used layers in heterostructure.Based on the characteristic tests, quantum dots aspect ratios were 1 to 5 nanometers. Also tungsten disulfide was obtained... 

Graphene, the newborn nanomaterial whose unique properties has extensively drawnattention of many scientists in the recent years, is an ideal candidate for sensing applications due to its exclusive properties like extremely high specific surface area, excellent electrical conductivity, andcapability of being easily functionalized. In this research, after reviewing the attempts already performed on detection of DNA, in order to detect the four bases of DNA (G, A, T, and C) via electrochemical approach, graphene nanosheets were synthesized by the popular Hummer’s method and were deposited on a graphite rod by electrophoretic deposition with a vertical preferred orientation. To eliminate the... 

Additive manufacturing can be considered as a revolution in the manufacturing industry. The unique capabilities of this technology have led to the removal of many obstacles to the construction of complex and special parts. In this study, with the aim of further understanding how the gradient region is formed, the possibility of detecting the microstructure and finally the properties of the gradient piece made, a solidification process has been simulated in direct metal deposition. The results of this study include calculating the heat distribution during the process and obtaining a thermal history of the fabricated part, calculating the dimensions of the molten pool and the heat affected... 

Transition Metal Dichalcogenids (TMD) are types of 2D materials that exibit wide range of electronic, optical, mechanical, chemical, and thermal properties. These materials with MX2 general formula, have atract attentions with respect to their unusual properties because of their very limited dimensions. Their tunable properties and materials availibility make them attractive for wide range of applications. In recent years, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) methods are promising in preparing high quality TMD with scalable size, controllable thickness, and very excellent electronic properties. Also, chalenges are remaining in synthesis and transfering of TMD are difficulty for most of...