Apparently mundane, amorphous nanostructures of carbon have optical properties which are as exotic as their crystalline counterparts. In this work we demonstrate a simple and inexpensive mechano-chemical method to prepare bulk quantities of self-passivated, amorphous carbon dots. Like the graphene quantum dots, the water soluble, amorphous carbon dots too, exhibit excitation-dependent photoluminescence with very high quantum yield (~40%). The origin and nature of luminescence in these high entropy nanostructures are well understood in terms of the abundant surface traps. The photoluminescence property of these carbon dots is exploited to detect trace amounts of the nitro-aromatic explosive — 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (TNP). The benign nanostructures can selectively detect TNP over a wide range of concentrations (0.5 to 200 µM) simply by visual inspection, with a detection limit of 0.2 µM, and consequently outperform nearly all reported TNP sensor materials.
Solid-state diffusion bonding of Ti-6Al-4V and type 304 SS was investigated in the temperature range of 750 °C to 950 °C, under a uniaxial load for 5.4 ks in vacuum. The diffusion bonds were characterized using light and scanning electron microscopy. The scanning electron microscopic images in backscattered mode show the existence of different reaction layers in the diffusion zone. The composition of these layers was determined by energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) to contain the ␣-Fe, , , FeTi, -Ti, and Fe 2 Ti 4 O phases. The presence of these intermetallics was confirmed by X-ray diffraction. The bond strength was evaluated, and the maximum tensile strength of ϳ342 MPa and the maximum shear strength of ϳ237 MPa were obtained for the diffusion couple processed at 800 °C due to the finer width of the brittle intermetallic layers. With a rise in joining temperature, the bond strength drops owing to an increase in the width of the reaction layers. The activation energy and growth constant were calculated in the temperature range of 750 °C to 950 °C for the reaction products. The phase showed the fastest growth rate. A fracture-surface observation in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) using EDS demonstrates that failure takes place mainly through the -Ti phase for the diffusion couples processed in the aforementioned temperature range.
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