The method of optical spectroscopy determined photoluminescence properties of zirconia nanoparticles produced by laser ablation. The effect of annealing of nanoparticles in the range from 400 to 1000 °C on their luminescence is investigated. It is shown that the emission of the luminescence make it possible to conclude about the type of defects in the structure of nanoparticles and their dynamics during annealing. A qualitative explanation of the detected patterns is provided.
The electron micro diffraction technique and pseudopotential ab initio calculations were implemented to study in details the formation and mechanism of growth of the tungsten whiskers during the reduction of nickel tungstate by CO gas. It has been shown that the W whiskers prefer to grow as crystals oriented in the <111> direction, and this process may be considered as the epitaxial growth on the hexagonal planes of Ni 4 W particles.
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