Coated-PMMA microspheres consisting of poly （methyl methacrylate）（PMMA） core and barium titanate （BaTiO3） shell were synthesized by the modified sol-gel processing and then adopted as an electrorheological （ER） materials. The structure and morphology of coated powders were chyfecterized by SEM and FT-IR; the shear stress of the suspensions of coated-PMMA particles and pure PMMA particles in silicone oil with a 20 vol% were investigated. The results show that the BaTiO3 coated PMMA microspheres based suspension in silicone oil exhibited typical ER behavior and stronger ER effects.
A new process to synthesize polycrystalline samples of Sr14Cu24O41 was presented. Firstly, dry gel powder of Sr14Cu24O41 was synthesized by the citrates sol-gel method, using Sr（NO3）2, Cu（NO3）2, ethylene glycol and citrate acid as raw materials. Then, polycrystalline samples of Sr14Cu24O41 were prepared by solid-state reaction. Thermal Gravimetric and Differential Thermal Analysis（TG-DTA） showed that the temperature for solid-state reaction is at 942 ℃. The samples are identified to be single phase by X-ray Diffraction（XRD） and Scanning Electron Microscopy（SEM）. The SEM pictures showed that the first-step particles were at even size of about 100 nm by this technique. The electronic transport measurements showed that the doping compound were semiconductor with a crossover temperature T in the Arrhenius plot of the resistivity versus temprature.
WANG LiliWEI HuiHU NiXIONG RuiYU ZuxingTANG WufengSHI Jing
Nearly single-phase and polycrystalline charge-density-wave compound K0.3MoO3 have been prepared by using a simple method. In this work, K2CO3 and MoOs were used as starting materials and reacted by hot isostatic pressing （HIP） sintering. The product is nearly single phase K0.3MoO3 determined by X-ray powder diffraction （XRD） and energy dispersive spectroscopy （EDS）. Measurement of temperature dependence of resistivity reveals that the transport property of polycrystalline K0.3MoO3 obviously differs from that of single crystal due to the grain boundaries and the anisotropic structure in this kind of compound.
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