Al-Ni-Co quasicrystalline melt-spun alloy - microstructure and catalytic properties

This set contains supplementary data for the work: Al-Ni-Co decagonal quasicrystal application as an energy-effective catalyst
for phenylacetylene hydrogenation, Sustainable Materials and Technologies 41 (2024) e01055, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susmat.2024.e01055

SEM BSE images present the microstructure of the cross-section of the ribbon.

MS_Surf images show the surface of the ribbons acquired using an optical microscope.

TEM images were named as follows:

ms_ribb - melt-spun ribbon

nabh4_ribb - ribbon cleaned with NaBH4 aqueous solution

liq_ribb - ribbon recovered after phenylacetylene hydrogenation reaction 

phenylacetylene hydrogenation reactions.ods - Reaction course of phenylacetylene hydrogenation reactions with new portions of catalyst. Chemical composition of the reaction mixture was evaluated using the gas chromatography method.

XPS spectra were collected for surfaces of ribbons in a melt-spun form and recovered after the phenylacetylene hydrogenation reaction. 

The material preparation and microstructural analyses were performed at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

The experimental procedure for material preparation, instrumentation, data collection and results analysis were described in the work: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susmat.2024.e01055

Preparation of materials: Amelia Zięba

TEM images collection (FEI Tecnai G2, ThermoFisher Titan Themis G2 200 Probe Cs-Corrected): Amelia Zięba, Lidia Lityńska-Dobrzyńska

SEM images acquisition (FEI E-SEM XL-30): Amelia Zięba

Catalytic performance tests: Dorota Duraczyńska

XPS study: Mateusz Marzec

Acknowledgements

The work was financially supported by the National Science Centre (NCN), Poland, project No. 2021/41/N/ST8/02533.