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    Theoretical Investigation of Carbon Dioxide Capture by Aqueous Boric Acid Solution: a Termolecular Reaction Mechanism
    (2018) Kayı, Hakan
    Hitherto, boric is suggested and used as a promoter or catalyst for carbondioxide capture in various chemical absorption reactions, such as, absorptionby aqueous potassium carbonate solution to increase mass transfer rate. Butin this study, a single step termolecular reaction mechanism is suggested forthe chemical absorption of carbon dioxide directly by boric acid and water. Thereaction thermochemistry and reaction kinetics for termolecular mechanism areinvestigated by using density functional theory calculations at the B3LYP/6-31G(d)level of theory by taking into account of the implicit solvent effects of water throughthe polarizable continuum model and dispersion corrections. The findings obtainedfrom theoretical calculations indicate that it is possible to capture carbon dioxidewith boric acid in the form of B(OH)2OCOOH.
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    Synthesis and Investigation of Structural-Mechanical Properties of C-Bn Based Bn Thin Films
    (2017) Efeoğlu, İhsan; Totik, Yaşar; Keleş, Ayşenur; Ersoy, Kıvılcım; Durkaya, Göksel
    C-BN films are candidate material to diamond due to their promising properties. Although some properties of c-BN films are better than diamond, adhesion properties between the substrate and the film are very poor. In this study, c-BN films were deposited by closed-field unbalanced magnetron sputtering system onto 4140 steels in Ar/N2 atmosphere. The c-BN films coated in three different N2flow rates. The coated specimens were characterized by SEM and X-ray diffraction techniques. The bonding state of B, N and C elements were obtained using XPS. The mechanical properties of the c-BN films were tested by micro-indentation. The adhesion properties between substrate and the film were investigated by using scratch test. The tribological properties were carried out using pin-on-disc in atmospheric conditions. Our results showed that the c-BN films exhibited very dense and columnar microstructure. The maximum critical load was read 23 N in the softest c-BN film. The maximum and minimum hardness were measured 69 GPa and 33 GPa, respectively. When the hardness was increased the friction coefficient was decreased. The lowest friction coefficient (0.15) was obtained from the hardest film and the highest friction coefficient (0.65) was obtained from the lowest hardness