873 results about "Holmium" patented technology

A coating applied as a two layer system. The outer layer is an oxide of a group IV metal selected from the group consisting of zirconium oxide, hafnium oxide and combinations thereof, which are doped with an effective amount of a lanthanum series oxide. These metal oxides doped with a lanthanum series addition comprises a high weight percentage of the outer coating. As used herein, lanthanum series means an element selected from the group consisting of lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), lutetium (Lu) and combinations thereof, and lanthanum series oxides are oxides of these elements. When the zirconium oxide is doped with an effective amount of a lanthanum series oxide, a dense reaction layer is formed at the interface of the outer layer of TBC and the CMAS. This dense reaction layer prevents CMAS infiltration below it. The second layer, or inner layer underlying the outer layer, comprises a layer of partially stabilized zirconium oxide.

The invention provides a high performance lithium ion battery anode material lithium manganate and a preparation method of the material. The lithium manganate is a doped lithium manganate LiMn2-yXy04 which is doped with one kind or a plurality of other metal elements X, wherein X element is at least one kind selected form the group of aluminium, lithium, fluorine, silver, copper, chromium, zinc, titanium, bismuth, germanium, gallium, zirconium, stannum, silicon, cobalt, nickel, vanadium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium and rare earth elements lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium and lutetium, and y is larger than 0 but less than or equal to 0.11. The lithium ion battery anode material lithium manganate provided in the invention has extraordinary charge and discharge cycle performance both in the environments of normal temperature and high temperature. According to the invention, the preparation method of the material is a solid phase method, the operation is simple and controllable and the cost is low so that it is easy to realize large-scale productions.

A ceramic bonding composition comprises a first oxide and at least a second oxide having a formula of Me2O3; wherein the first oxide is selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, scandium oxide, and combinations thereof; Me is selected from the group consisting of yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, and combinations thereof. The ceramic bonding composition can further comprise silica. An article of manufacture comprising at least two members attached together with the ceramic bonding composition.

The invention discloses a rare earth aluminum alloy, and a method and a device for preparing the same. The alloy contains at least one rare earth metal of lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, lutetium, scandium and yttrium, the content of raw earth is 5 to 98 weight percent, and the balance is aluminum and inevitable impurities. The device for preparing the rare earth aluminum alloy is characterized in that: a) graphite serves as an electrolysis bath, a graphite plate is an anode, a tungsten bar is a cathode and a molybdenum crucible serves as a rare earth aluminum alloy receiver; b) the diameter of the tungsten bar is 30 to 55 mm; and c) the anode of the graphite consists of a plurality of graphite plates. The rare earth aluminum alloy, and the method and the device for preparing the same have the advantages that: the alloy has uniform components, little segregation and low impurity content; technology for preparing the rare earth aluminum alloy through fusion electrolysis can maximally replace a process for preparing single medium-heavy metal through metallothermic reduction, greatly reduce energy consumption and the emission of fluorine-containing tail gas and solid waste residue, improve current efficiency and metal yield and reduce the consumption of auxiliary materials and the energy consumption; and the rare earth aluminum alloys with different rare earth contents can be obtained by controlling different electrolytic temperatures and different cathode current densities.

A sputtering target including an oxide sintered body, the oxide sintered body containing indium (In) and at least one element selected from gadolinium (Gd), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er) and ytterbium (Yb), and the oxide sintered body substantially being of a bixbyite structure.

Methods for making barrier coatings including a taggant involving providing a barrier coating, and adding from about 0.01 mol % to about 30 mol % of a taggant to the barrier coating wherein the taggant comprises a rare earth element selected from lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, ytterbium, and lutetium, salts thereof, silicates thereof, oxides thereof, zirconates thereof, hafnates thereof, titanates thereof, tantalates thereof, cerates thereof, aluminates thereof, aluminosilicates thereof, phophates thereof, niobates thereof, borates thereof, and combinations thereof.

A method is disclosed for coating substantially pure boron or highly boron-rich borides in a controlled manner. Such a method of coating of boron has a variety of applications, including surface chemical and wear protection, neutron absorption, prevention of impurity emission from heated filaments and ion beams, elimination of metal dust from vacuum systems, boridizing, boron cluster emission, and reactive chemistry. Borides with a boron-to-metal ratio of 20 or more are known to exist and may be used as a feedstock for substantially pure boron coatings for deposition processes requiring feedstock electrical conductivity, and / or enhanced reactivity. While most metal borides coincidentally produce significant metal vapor as a by-product, certain borides of yttrium, holmium, erbium, thulium, terbium, gadolinium, and lutetium have been identified as capable of producing substantially pure boron vapor.

A turbine engine component is provided which has a substrate and a thermal barrier coating applied over the substrate. The thermal barrier coating comprises alternating layers of yttria-stabilized zirconia and a molten silicate resistant material. The molten silicate resistant outer layer may be formed from at least one oxide of a material selected from the group consisting of lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandium, indium, zirconium, hafnium, and titanium or may be formed from a gadolinia-stabilized zirconia. If desired, a metallic bond coat may be present between the substrate and the thermal barrier coating system. A method for forming the thermal barrier coating system of the present invention is described.

The invention relates to an NdFeB magnet and belongs to the technical field of rare earth magnetic materials. The NdFeB magnet is prepared by sintering a mixture of main phase alloy powder with the granularity of 2-5 <Mu>m, heavy rare earth alloy powder with the granularity of 1-2 <Mu>m and superfine powder with the granularity of 0.1-1.5 <Mu>m, which are mixed at the mass percents of 85-99.8, 0.1-10 and 0.1-5 respectively, the heavy rare earth alloy is one or more of dysprosium hydride and dysprosium-ferrum hydride compound, a holmium hydride and holmium-ferrum hydride compound and terbium hydride and terbium-ferrum hydride compound. The invention further provides a preparation method of the NdFeB magnet. According to the invention, 10-40 percent of heavy rare earth is saved, and the intrinsic coercive field of the NdFeB magnet is increased greatly without reducing the effect of residual magnetism.

A material for a rare earth permanent magnet having a high magnetic coercive force and a high residual magnetic flux density. 28 to 35% by weight of at least one rare earth element selected from the group consisting of neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, terbium, and holmium, 0.9 to 1.3% by weight of boron, 0.25 to 3% by weight of phosphorus, iron, and inevitable impurities. It can further comprise 0.1 to 3.6% by weight of cobalt and 0.02 to 0.25% by weight of copper.

A mode-locked fiber laser comprising a multicomponent glass fiber doped with a trivalent rare-earth ion of thulium and / or holmium and including a fiber-optic based passive saturable absorber that contains an adhesive material mixed with a saturable absorbing components and is disposed along the length of an optical fiber such as to assure that a mode propagating within the fiber spatially overlaps with the volume occupied by the saturable absorbing components.

A sputtering target including an oxide sintered body, the oxide sintered body containing indium (In) and at least one element selected from gadolinium (Gd), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er) and ytterbium (Yb), and the oxide sintered body substantially being of a bixbyite structure.

Disclosed are a method for preparing rare-earth permanent magnets by the infiltration process and a graphite box utilized in the method. The method includes: preparing base materials of R (rare earth)-Fe (ferrum)-B (boron) rear earth magnets by prepared raw materials which are subjected to smelting, hydrogen decrepitation, magnetic field forming, sintering and the like; cutting the base material into slices with the thickness ranging from 2mm to 10mm; placing the slices into a specially-made graphite box and placing heavy rare earth type metal fluoride and a few of metal calcium particles into the bottom of the graphite box; sintering the graphite box in a sintering furnace, inflating air into the sintering furnace to cool the temperature to be lower than 60 DEG C, finally ageing magnets, then inflating Ar gas into the sintering furnace to cool the temperature to be lower than 60 DEG C after ageing, and finally obtaining the rare-earth permanent magnets. Elements including Dy (dysprosium), Tb (terbium), Ho (holmium) and the like are infiltrated into the crystal boundary of the R-Fe-B to prepare high-coercivity rare-earth permanent magnets by means of infiltration process, usage of heavy rare earth metal can be greatly reduced, and production cost of magnets can be effectively reduced. Additionally, the method for preparing rare-earth permanent magnets by the infiltration process is simple in operation and suitable for batch production.

The invention discloses an NdFeB permanent magnet used for NdFe motors and a manufacture method thereof. The magnet comprises the following components by weight: 24-28 percent of PrNd, 0.5-7 percent of Gd, 1-5 percent of Ho, 0-6 percent of Dy, 0.9-1.1 percent of B, 0.1-0.15 percent of Cu, 0.2-1.2 percent of Al, 62.35-66.5 percent of Fe, 0.2-1.5 percent of Co and 0.2-0.8 percent of Nb. The magnet is manufactured through the procedures of mixing, melting, milling, forming, sintering and grinding processing. Through the use of cheap gadolinium and holmium instead of expensive praseodymium, neodymium, dysprosium and terbium for the production of high-performance NdFeB permanent magnet, the invention can greatly reduce production cost and the product has high magnetic property and strong market competitiveness.

Rare earth compositions comprising nanoparticles, methods of making nanoparticles, and methods of using nanoparticles are described. The compositions of the nanomaterials discussed may include scandium (Sc), yttrium (Y), lanthanum(La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium(Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), and lutetium (Lu). The nanoparticles can be used to make organometallics, nitrates, and hydroxides. The nanoparticles can be used in a variety of applications, such as pigments, catalysts, polishing agents, coatings, electroceramics, catalysts, optics, phosphors, and detectors.

A scintillator composition comprising a garnet represented by (M1-x-yNxAy)3(Al5-a-bCaDb)O12, where M comprises yttrium, or terbium, or gadolinium, or holmium, or erbium, or thulium, or ytterbium, or lutetium, or combinations thereof, where N comprises additives including a lanthanide, or an alkali metal, or an alkaline earth metal, or combinations thereof, where A comprises a suitable activator ion including cerium, or europium, or praseodymium, or terbium, or ytterbium, or combinations thereof, where C or D comprises lithium, or magnesium, or gallium, or an element from group IIIa, or IVa, or Va, or IIId transition metal, or IVd transition metal, or combinations thereof, where x ranges from about 0 to about 0.90, y ranges from about 0.0005 to about 0.30, and a sum of a and b ranges from about 0 to 2.0.

The present invention provides a catalyst carrier having excellent durability and capable of attaining high catalytic ability without increasing the specific surface area thereof, and a catalyst obtainable by using the catalyst carrier. The catalyst carrier of the present invention comprises a metal oxycarbonitride, preferably the metal contained in the metal oxycarbonitride comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of niobium, tin, indium, platinum, tantalum, zirconium, copper, iron, tungsten, chromium, molybdenum, hafnium, titanium, vanadium, cobalt, manganese, cerium, mercury, plutonium, gold, silver, iridium, palladium, yttrium, ruthenium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, and nickel. Moreover, the catalyst of the present invention comprises the catalyst carrier and a catalyst metal supported on the catalyst carrier.

The invention relates to a passive mode-locking ultrashort pulse all-fiber laser with a waveband of 2.0 microns and belongs to the field of a laser technology and nonlinear optics. The passive mode-locking ultrashort pulse all-fiber laser with the waveband of 2.0 microns mainly comprises a laser pumping source, a pumping combiner, thulium-doped or thulium-holmium-codoped rear earth doped fibers, a circulator, a saturable absorber, a laser beam splitter, an isolator, a fiber bragg grating, a polarization controller and the like. The thulium-doped or thulium-holmium-codoped rear earth doped fibers are used as a gain medium; the saturable absorber is used as a passive mode-locking device; and the output of an ultrashort laser pulse which is in the waveband of 2.0 microns and has high pulse energy is realized. Due to the adoption of the all-fiber structure design, the passive mode-locking ultrashort pulse all-fiber laser with the waveband of 2.0 microns has the advantages of simple structure, high environment stability and the like, and the industrialization application is easy to realize.

A niobium powder comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, boron, aluminum, gallium, indium, thallium, cerium, neodymium, titanium, rhenium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, zinc, silicon, germanium, tin, phosphorus, arsenic, bismuth, rubidium, cesium, magnesium, strontium, barium, scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, praseodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, hafnium, vanadium, osmium, iridium, platinum, gold, cadmium, mercury, lead, selenium and tellurium; a sintered body of the niobium powder; and a capacitor comprising a sintered body as one electrode, a dielectric material formed on the surface of the sintered body, and counter electrode provided on the dielectric material.

A high-strength high-modulus magnesium alloy comprises 3-20% of alloying element and the balance of magnesium substrate, wherein the alloying element comprises heavy rare earth, silicon and / or germanium, and tin and / or antimony and / or zinc; Si and Ge as well as Sn, Sb and Zn can be simultaneously added and can also be added individually; and the heavy rare earth is selected from at least one of gadolinium, dysprosium, terbium, holmium erbium, thulium, ytterbium and lutetium. The preparation method comprises the steps of: heating and melting pure magnesium in protective atmosphere, adding pure silicon to the pure magnesium melt, stirring, dissolving, heating-up to 20-30 DEG C, sequentially adding an interalloy of the other components, stirring, controlling the interalloy to be completely molten until the casting time is less than or equal to 4min, and casting to obtain a cast ingot. The high-strength high-modulus magnesium alloy is reasonable in component proportioning, and easy to process and manufacture; and the prepared high-strength high-modulus magnesium alloy has high room-temperature strength and elasticity modulus and better plasticity, and comprehensive performances apparently higher than those of the existing magnesium-rare earth, and is suitable for industrial production.

The present invention belongs to the field of nano fluorescent material. Lanthanum oxide (or yttrium or gadolinium oxide), ytterbium oxide and erbiom oxide (or thulium or holmium oxide) are first dissolved in acid to prepare solution; complexone and sodium or potassium molybdenate are added into the solution to produce precipitate, which is centrifugally separated and water washed to prepare aqueous gel, aqueous gel or further prepared alcoholic gel is finally cinerated in a high temperature furnace or heated in a hydrothermal reactor to obtain the nano level up converting fluorescent material. The said material has lanthanum molybdenate as matrix and ytterbium molybdenate and erbium molybdenate as dopant. The material thus prepared has small and homogeneous size, average size 50-60 nm and high light glowing strength and may meet the requirement as biological molecular fluorescent mark material.

The invention discloses an upconversion fluorescent ink for an inkjet printer. The upconversion fluorescent ink comprises, by weight, 1-10 parts of rare-earth doped upconversion fluorescent nanoparticles, 1600-2000 parts of ink solvent and 300-800 parts of thickener, the rare-earth doped upconversion fluorescent nanoparticles are sodium yttrium fluoride nanoparticles co-doped by rare-earth activator and rare-earth sensitizer, the rare-earth activator is erbium, thulium or holmium, and the rare-earth sensitizer is ytterbium or erbium. The upconversion fluorescent ink for the inkjet printer has the advantages of good anti-counterfeiting effect and long fixation time and storage life and can realize individualized instant anti-counterfeiting printing.

The invention relates to the field of fishing gears, in particular to an anti-ageing fishing net. The high-quality fishing net comprises the following production raw materials: epoxy resin, nitrile butadiene rubber, low-density polyethylene, a polypropylene compatilizer, holmium oxide, polyolefin, zinc oxide, a plasticizer and a wetting agent. According to the high-quality fishing net provided by the invention, the tensile strength of the fishing net can be improved through use of the polypropylene compatilizer and the holmium oxide in the materials; the quality of the fishing net in the using process is enhanced; meanwhile, the tensioning degree and the quality of the fishing net can be improved by adding the plasticizer and the wetting agent to the materials; and the pollution of the fishing net to river water in operation is reduced.

A preparation method of up-conversion phosphor nanometer particles belongs to the technical field of materials and comprises the following steps: (1) dissolving rare-earth inorganic acid salt powder by ethanol to obtain rare-earth inorganic acid salt ethanol solution; (2) adding long-chain fatty acid, performing the reflux reaction under the mixing condition, and preparing a long-chain fatty acid precursor of rare-earth; (3) adding one of an erbium precursor, a thulium precursor and a holmium precursor as well as a yttrium precursor and a ytterbium precursor into a water-ethanol mixing system, adding and uniformly mixing sodium fluoride and surface active agent, and heating and reacting for 2-24h under the obturating condition; (4) adding organic solvent after lowering the temperature, centrifugalizing, and drying or naturally withering after washing white precipitate. The preparation method has simpler process, easy synthesis condition, good repetitiveness, low cost and higher productive rate.

The invention relates to an ion thermal growth method for converting fluoride nano crystal near infrared light which includes steps as follows: weighing some solid yttrium nitrate (lanthanum nitrate), ytterbium nitrate, erbium nitrate (thulium nitrate or holmium nitrate) pro rata. Mol ratio of the rare earth ion is that yttrium ion (lanthanum ion) : ytterbium ion : erbium ion (thulium ion, holmium ion) equal to 70-90 : 0 : 0.001-15; adding tetrafluoroborate type ion liquor into the mixing solid, selective adding some NaCl solid according with various basic, then placing the mixing solution into a high pressure reaction kettle with polyfluortetraethylene lining, placing into an oven for heating reacting, finally, washing, centrifugating, drying and obtaining the product. The prepared nano upper converting fluorescence material has small and uniform granule, strong lighting strength, better water-solubility and can satisfy need of biomolecule fluorescence mark material.

The invention discloses a low-cost sintered neodymium boron magnet, which comprises components including, by weight percentage, 5.0-6.5% of Pr (praseodymium), 20-28% of Nd (neodymium), 3-5% of Ho (holmium), 1.0-1.1% of boron, 0.4-0.8% of Al (aluminum), 0.1-0.2 % of Zr (zirconium), 0.4-0.6% of Nb (niobium), 0.12-0.17% of Cu (copper), 0.03-0.08% of Ga (gallium), 0.4-1.0% of Co (carbon monoxide) andthe balance iron. The production method includes: pretreatment of raw materials, ingot casting and smelting, hydrogen decrepitation and pulverization, magnetic field orienting and forming, isostatic processing, sintering, ageing and detecting. In the low-cost sintered neodymium boron magnet, high-cost dysprosium of rare metal is substituted by low-cost holmium of rare metal, so that production cost of products is reduced without affecting magnetic performances of the sintered neodymium boron magnet. Furthermore, the production method is simple in operation, excellent ingot casting structure can be obtained by ingot casting and smelting process, and the high-performance sintered neodymium iron boron magnet can be obtained.

The invention provides an Nd-Fe-B rare earth permanent magnet material containing Ho and a preparation method thereof; the composition of the Nd-Fe-B rare earth permanent magnet material containing Ho comprises Re Alpha Ho Beta B Gama MxNyFe 1-Alpha-Beta-Gama-x-y; wherein, Re is rare earth element and comprises Nd or Nd as well as one or more elements out of La, Ce, Pr, Pm, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Y and Sc; M is addition element and comprises Co and Cu; N is addition element and comprises one or more elements out of Al, Ga, Nb, Zr, Ti and Sn; Alpha, Beta, Gama, x and y are respectively weight percentage of all elements; Fe is iron and unavoidable impurities; wherein, Alpha is not more than 35% and not less than 29%; Beta is not less than 0.05% and not more than 0.5%; Gama is not more than 1.20% and not less than 0.95%; x is not more than 10% and is not less than 0; y is not more than 1.50% and not less than 0. The preparation method adopts the continuous procedures such as smelting, casting, crushing, forming and sintering to prepare a magnet. The Hcj of the Nd-Fe-B rare earth permanent magnet material is improved and the production cost thereof is reduced after Ho is added in the Nd-Fe-B rare earth permanent magnet material.

Rare earth compositions comprising nanoparticles, methods of making nanoparticles, and methods of using nanoparticles are described. The compositions of the nanomaterials discussed may include scandium (Sc), yttrium (Y), lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), and lutetium (Lu). The nanoparticles can be used to make organometallics, nitrates, and hydroxides. The nanoparticles can be used in a variety of applications, such as pigments, catalysts, polishing agents, coatings, electroceramics, catalysts, optics, phosphors, and detectors.

The invention discloses a regenerated plastic particle. The regenerated plastic particle comprises the following components in parts by weight: modified recycled plastic, intumescent flame retardant, barium sulfate, graphene, antioxidant, brightener and plasticizer. According to the invention, the recycled plastic is modified by in-process compatilizer, toughener and chain extender, so that the performance of the recycled plastic is improved to be used for manufacturing of the regenerated plastic and have favorable mechanical property; the interfacial compatibility of the regenerated plastic particle is increased, the mechanical property of the composite material is enhanced, and the corrosion to manufacturing equipment is reduced; a holmium-containing composite flame retardant system is complexed with the intumescent flame retardant to enhance the flame retardancy of the regenerated plastic, the flame retardant efficiency is high, and the deficiency of the regenerated plastic can be compensated for; and the final product obtained by the invention has excellent mechanical property, and is low-toxicity and environment-friendly.