The Chemistry of Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides

1 Introduction to the chemistry of transition metal carbides and nitrides.- Abstract.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Crystalline structure and composition.- 1.3 Bonding and electronic properties.- 1.4 Physical properties.- 1.5 Electric and magnetic properties.- 1.6 Preparation.- 1.7 Applications.- 1.8 Catalysis and surface studies.- References.- Physical Properties.- 2 Application of transition metal carbides and nitrides industrial tools.- 3 Review of diffusion and vaporization of Group 4 and 5 transition metal carbides.- 4 Chemical diffusion in transition metal-carbon and transition metal-nitrogen systems.- Theory.- 5 The origins of the similarities between late transition metals and early transition metal monocarbides.- 6 Fermi surface of hexagonal tungsten carbide.- 7 Orbital symmetry and superconductivity in carbides and borocarbides.- New Materials.- 8 Recent developments in ternary nitride chemistry.- 9 Transition metal-based double nitrides.- 10 Magnetic properties of rare earth-iron compounds containing carbon and/or nitrogen.- Synthesis.- 11 The synthesis of titanium nitride and titanium carbonitride by self-propagating combustion.- 12 Combustion synthesis of transition metal nitrides.- 13 New route to molybdenum nitrides and oxynitrides: preparation and characterization of new phases.- 14 Synthesis of thin films of Cr, Mo and W carbides and nitrides.- 15 Single-source precursors for the chemical vapor deposition of titanium and vanadium carbide and nitride.- Catalysis.- 16 Carbides of transition metals as catalysts for oxidation reactions.- 17 Surface molybdenum species and acid sites on nitrided moly bdena-alumina catalysts.- 18 Carbide-oxide interactions in bulk and supported tungsten carbide catalysts for alcohol synthesis.- 19 Fischer-Tropsch synthesis and XRD characterization of an iron carbide catalyst synthesized by laser pyrolysis.- 20 Study of the isomerization of C6 and C6+ alkanes over molybdenum oxycarbide catalysts.- 21 Characterization of oxygen-treated carbides of molybdenum and tungsten for n-hexane-dihydrogen reactions.- 22 Synthesis and catalytic properties of tungsten carbide for isomerization, reforming and hydrogenation.- Spectroscopy and Microscopy.- 23 Chemisorption of CO and NO molybdenum carbide foils.- 24 Characterization of the electronic and catalytic properties of vanadium carbide: a comparative study of VC/V(110) model surfaces and VC powder materials.- 25 Surface shifts in core level energies of transition metal carbides and nitrides.- 26 Study of the Auger metal peak of carbides and nitrides by factor analysis.- 27 Transition metal nitride and carbide nanoparticles.- 28 Carbide formation during activation of iron Fisher-Tropsch catalysts.- Indexes.

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