XPS study of surface chemistry of tungsten carbides nanopowdersproduced through DC thermal plasma/hydrogen annealing process

Applied Surface Science

Volumn 339, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 46-54

  Krasovskii, Pavel V ^a   Malinovskaya, Olga S ^a   Samokhin, Andrey V ^a   Blagoveshchenskiy, Yury V ^a   Kazakov, Valery A ^a   Ashmarin, Artem A ^a  

^a BAIKOV INSTITUTE OF METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Nanoparticle; Nanopowder; Surface chemistry; Tungsten carbide; X ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CARBON; CHEMICAL BONDS; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MIXTURES; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE SEGREGATION; TUNGSTEN CARBIDE;

ANNEALING PROCESS; AVERAGE PARTICLE SIZE; BONDING CONFIGURATIONS; CARBONACEOUS DEPOSITS; EVOLVED GAS ANALYSIS; HIGH SURFACE AREA; INTERFACIAL COMPOUNDS; NANO POWDERS;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84933045329     PISSN: 01694332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2015.02.152     Document Type: Article

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