Monophase and polyphase ceramic materials based on Magneli phases of titanium oxides of composition Ti3O5, Ti4O7, Ti5O9, and Ti6O11 were synthesized. The materials were obtained by mechanical activation of rutile with titanium and additives of niobium, vanadium, and iron, with subsequent sintering both in reductive atmosphere (hydrogen) and in neutral atmosphere (argon) in the temperature interval of 1060-1080°C. The dependences of the potentials of the obtained ceramic samples on time and composition during anodic polarization at current density of 5A/dm2 in a 1M solution of sulfuric acid were investigated. We developed a technique for manufacturing anodes in the form of hollow cylinders 60 mm in diameter with a wall 5 mm thick, and flat discs more than 60 mm in diameter

We study families of Lagrangian tori that appear in a neighborhood of a resonance of a near-integrable Hamiltonian system. Such families disappear in the integrable limit ε → 0. Dynamics on these tori is oscillatory in the direction of the resonance phases and rotating with respect to the other (non-resonant) phases. We also show that, if multiplicity of the resonance equals one, generically these tori occupy a set of a large relative measure in the resonant domains in the sense that the relative measure of the remaining chaotic set is of order

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This paper examines plasmon -exciton coupling effects in light absorption and scattering by hybrid nanoparticles consisting of a metallic core and organic dye J-aggregate shell. The spectroscopic characteristics of such particles are calculated using generalised Mie theory for two concentric spheres in a wide spectral range for various geometric parameters of the system, core materials (Ag, Au, Cu and Al) and cyanine dyes (TC, OC and PIC). We determine the eigenfrequencies of hybrid modes in the system and photo absorption peak heights as functions of the oscillator strength of the transition in the J-band of the dye, core radius and shell thickness, and demonstrate that the interactions of a Frenkel exciton with dipole and multipole plasmons have radically different effects on the optical properties of the composite nanoparticles. Varying the particle size and the optical constants of the core and shell mate rials influences the number of peaks in the spectra of the particles and leads to a significant redistribution of peak heights. We identify regions where the extinction spectrum of the particles is dominated by light absorption or scattering processes.

The dynamics of the copper electrodeposition out of a dilute sulfuric acid solution of copper sulfate (straight-through regime, solution supplied from the rear at a velocity of ~1 cm s -1 ) onto preliminarily metallized carbonaceous felt of the VINN-250 brand is studied. The profile, which describes the final deposit distribution, qualitatively conforms to predictions made in terms of a dynamic model for a porous electrode described previously, as does the nonmonotonic variation of the gain in the copper weight and the current efficiency for copper with time in the first half of the deposition process. At later stages of the process, along with the enhancement of the tendency towards the forcing of the copper electrodeposition process towards the front end of the electrode, there appears a new factor, which is not taken into account by the method. This factor is the deposition of a loose rough copper layer outside the porous electrode at its front side.