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• Why are most metals plated with chromium?

  Chromium, a bright white metal with a slight bluish tint, is electrochemically or chemically coated with a layer of chromium on a metal or some non-metal, known as chrome plating.

  News December 15, 2022
• Learn basics of aluminum sputtering target

  Aluminum target is a kind of sputtering target used in vacuum coating industry. It is a product of high purity aluminum after a series of processing. It has a specific size and shape of high purity aluminum material, which is installed in the vacuum coating machine and sputtered into film.

  News December 14, 2022
• Are scandium and yttrium transition metals?

  Scandium​, yttrium and lanthanum are the most active metals among the transition elements. They can be oxidized quickly in air, react with water to release hydrogen, and also dissolve in acid.

  News December 13, 2022
• Is strontium hydroxide a solid?

  Strontium hydroxide is an inorganic compound with the formula Sr(OH)₂ and a molecular weight of 121.63. It is a colorless square crystal system plate or columnar crystal. As an important strontium containing compound, it is very widely used.

  News December 12, 2022
• What is yttria stabilized zirconia?

  YSZ​ is a ceramic material, by adding yttrium oxide to change the phase transition temperature range of zirconia, resulting in room temperature stable cubic crystals and tetragonal crystals.

  News December 09, 2022
• What is bismuth oxide used for?

  Bismuth oxide produces three variants when burned at different temperatures. α-body: yellow heavy powder or monoclinic crystal, melting point 820℃, relative density 8.9, refractive index 1.91. At 860℃, it becomes a γ-body. β-bodies: gray-black cubic crystals, with a relative density of 8.20, convert to α-bodies at 704℃.

  News December 08, 2022
• What are the uses of selenium metal?

  In general, selenium is widely used and applicable in many fields. With the development of the world economy and the emergence of new application scenarios, the market demand for selenium continues to grow, and the selenium metal industry will develop further in the future.

  News December 07, 2022
• Single crystal silicon vs Polycrystalline silicon?

  The application of monocrystalline photovoltaic panel is earlier than that of polycrystalline photovoltaic panel. The current situation is that the application of polycrystalline silicon in power station is much higher than that of monocrystalline silicon, which accounts for 30% and polycrystalline silicon accounts for 70%.

  News December 06, 2022
• Why rare earth elements important?

  Rare earth elements (REE) are made up of 17 elements, including scandium, yttrium and the lanthanides. Among them, seven elements including lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium and europium are light rare earth elements (LREE), while terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium, scandium and yttrium are heavy rare earth elements (HREE).

  News December 05, 2022
• What can silicon dioxide be used for?

  Nano silica is inert and highly adsorbable, so it is often used as a carrier in the preparation of fungicides. When nano silica is used as the carrier, it can adsorb antibacterial ions to achieve the purpose of antibacterial.

  News November 28, 2022