126results about "Lanthanum oxide/hydroxides" patented technology

Nanowires useful as heterogeneous catalysts are provided. The nanowire catalysts are useful in a variety of catalytic reactions, for example, the oxidative coupling of methane to C2 hydrocarbons. Related methods for use and manufacture of the same are also disclosed.

Disclosed are: a metal oxide film, which is formed by a coating method that is one of the methods for producing a metal oxide film, and which has a good balance between excellent transparency and high electrical conductivity, while having excellent film strength; and a method for producing the metal oxide film. Specifically disclosed is a method for producing a metal oxide film, which comprises: a coating step wherein a coating film is formed on a substrate using a metal oxide film-forming coating liquid that contains various organic metal compounds; a drying step wherein the coating film is changed into a dry coating film; and a heating step wherein an inorganic film is formed from the dry coating film. The method for producing a metal oxide film is characterized in that in the heating step, the dry coating film, which is mainly composed of the various organic metal compounds, is heated to a temperature at which at least mineralization of organic metal compound components occurs or higher in an oxygen-containing atmosphere at a temperature not higher than the temperature that is lower by 10 DEG C than the dew point, so that the organic components in the dry coating film are removed by thermal decomposition or combustion, or by thermal decomposition and combustion, thereby forming a metal oxide fine particle layer which is densely filled with metal oxide fine particles that are mainly composed of various metal oxides.

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.

Provided is a method of manufacturing a metal oxide film to be formed through the following processes: a coating process of forming a coating film on a substrate by using a coating liquid for forming metal oxide film containing any of various organometallic compounds; a drying process of making the coating film into a dried coating film; and a heating process of forming an inorganic film from the dried coating film under an oxygen-containing atmosphere having a dew-point temperature equal to or lower than −10° C.

There are provided processes for preparing alumina. These processes can comprise leaching an aluminum-containing material with HCl so as to obtain a leachate comprising aluminum ions and a solid, and separating said solid from said leachate; reacting said leachate with HCl so as to obtain a liquid and a precipitate comprising said aluminum ions in the form of AlCl3, and separating said precipitate from said liquid; and heating said precipitate under conditions effective for converting AlCl3 into Al2O3 and optionally recovering gaseous HCl so-produced. These processes can also be used for preparing various other products such as hematite, MgO, silica and oxides of various metals, sulphates and chlorides of various metals, as well as rare earth elements, rare metals and aluminum.

A method is described to produce high purity rare earth oxides of the elements La, Ce, Tb, Eu and Y from phosphor, such as waste phosphor powders originating in various consumer products. One approach involves leaching the powder in two stages and converting to two groups of relatively high purity mixed rare earth oxides. The first group containing Eu and Y is initially separated by solvent extraction. Once separated, Eu is purified using Zn reduction with custom apparatus. Y is purified by running another solvent extraction process using tricaprylmethylammonium chloride. Ce is separated from the second group of oxides, containing La, Ce and Tb by using solvent extraction. Subsequently, La and Tb are separated from each other and converted to pure oxides by using solvent extraction processes. A one-stage leaching process, wherein all rare earths get leached into the solution and subsequently processed, is also described.

A thermal spray powder contains particles composed of an oxide of any of the rare earth elements having an atomic number of 39 or from 59 to 70. The crushing strength of the particles is 80 MPa or greater. The ratio of bulk specific gravity to true specific gravity of the thermal spray powder is 0.15 or greater. The particles are preferably granulated and sintered particles. The average particle size of primary particles constituting the granulated and sintered particles is preferably 6 μm or less.

The composite oxide according to the present invention is a composite oxide that contains metal elements and has a composition represented by general formula (1). AnXyMm (1) [wherein: A represents a lanthanoid characterized by being partly or entirely in the III valence state; X represents a group 2 element in the periodic table selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr and Ba or a lanthanoid,provided that X is an element different from A; M represents a group 1 element in the periodic table, a group 2 element selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr and Ba or a lanthanoid, provided that M is an element different from A and X; and n is more than 0 and less than 1, y is more than 0 and less than 1, and m is 0 or more and less than 1, provided that n+y+m is 1].