Size-dependent structural stability and tuning mechanism: A case of zinc sulfide

Z Wang, Q Guo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2009 - ACS Publications
… Since hardness can be dealt with as an equivalent of tensile or shear strength like diamond,
(65) this study uses hardness as a substitution for practical calculation. Previous results on …

Effect of electric field on the nanoindentation of zinc sulfide

F Yang, H Dang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
… The indentation hardness decreased with increasing the electric … Zinc sulfide (ZnS) crystals
with a wide direct band gap of … observed the increase in the indentation hardness and the …

Composite materials based on zinc sulfide and zinc oxide: structural and biocidal properties

LB Sukhodub, G Khrystian, LF Sukhodub… - Annals of …, 2016 - journals.uran.ua
… Established the fact of increasing biological activity of apatite … Researchers attention also
attracted zinc sulfide … by high limit strength, absolute mechanical hardness, as well as the ability …

[HTML][HTML] On the Surface Hardening of Zinc Sulfide Windows by Gallium Sulfide

H Soufiani, A Kostogiannes, C Rivero-Baleine… - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
… Studies showed that the ZnGa 2 S 4 crystallites embedded within the glass matrix increased
hardness significantly, achieving values from 2.8 to 5.6 GPa, compared to 1.5 GPa for CVD-…

Comparisons of static and impact loading damage in zinc sulfide

HP Kirchner, TJ Larchuk - Journal of the American Ceramic …, 1982 - Wiley Online Library
… However, at large indentation radii, the larger loads resulting from increased dynamic
hardness during impact become dominant and the cracks become larger than those at …

Pressure sintering and transformation toughening of zinc sulfide

S Block, GL Piermarini, V Bean, A Raynes - Materials Science and …, 1990 - Elsevier
… Several techniques to increase the fracture toughness of ZnS, including pressure sintering,
… material The hardness and fracture toughness of CdY2S4, GaP-doped zinc sulfide and …

Fracture and stiffness characteristics of particulate composites of diamond in zinc sulfide

DS Farquhar, R Raj, SL Phoenix - Journal of the American …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
… as the load increased; therefore the load-area ratio should remain constant. The hardness
was computed as the slope of the applied load-contact area plotted in Fig. 5. The hardness for …

Antiwear mechanisms of zinc dithiophosphate: a chemical hardness approach

JM Martin - Tribology letters, 1999 - Springer
… diagram of the response of the additive to an increase in severity of the tribological conditions.
(a) Lubrication by thermal films (long-chain zinc polyphosphates) in the mild wear regime. …

Zinc sulfide for photocatalysis: White angel or black sheep?

T Lange, S Reichenberger, S Ristig, M Rohe… - Progress in Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
… ], [32], the overarching aim of this review is to increase the awareness and assess the role of
… cables and textiles, which arises from its low Mohs hardness (∼3), ZnS is a very important …

On the optical, electronic, and structural properties of zinc sulfide nanoclusters

A Mohajeri, M Alipour - International Journal of Quantum …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… To monitor relative stability of ZnS clusters with increasing number of … hardness indicates
the more stable cluster. Assuming that the PMH holds in our investigated systems, the hardness