This work investigated crystallographic textures and the features of a flow localization band in a forged Ti6242S billet. The flow localization band experienced a large strain and grains within it were elongated under shear stress. The main macrotextural components were made up of (11 $\overline{2}$ 0)/, /axial direction, and a static recrystallization texture (11 $\overline{2}$ 0)/(3 $\overline{3}$ 02), which can be explained by motion of a prismatic slip system and a newly proposed method of projection. Finally, three types of macrozone, each with a sharp defined texture were observed and subsequently, it was demonstrated that the formation of macrozones was only connected with parameters of thermomechanical processing and was independent of variants selection.

Amorphous Ta₂O₅-supported Ru as an efficient electrocatalyst for electrocatalytic selective hydrogenation of cinnamaldehyde.

Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) are promising catalysts for water electrolysis. Many efficient LDHs have been produced by adjusting their composition and structure. Herein, by using only sodium carbonate as a precipitator, we prepared gram-scale CoFe LDHs rich in carbonate anions depending on the incomplete double hydrolysis between carbonate and metal ions under atmospheric pressure. Owing to the flexible iron valence state, the coordination environment, and electronic structure of cobalt and iron in CoFe LDHs can be modified. The catalytic performance was substantially improved for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) owing to the exposure of more metal active sites and the increase in the charge transfer rate. By adjusting the molar ratios of Co and Fe, Co₁Fe₁ LDH with excellent OER performance, which reached 10 mA cm⁻² at an extremely low overpotential (270 mV) and a very low Tafel slope (42.7 mV dec⁻¹), was obtained. Our work can pave the way for low cost high-performance LDHs in water electrolysis.

Nanoscale tungsten (W) powder is used in some special materials. In this study, a hollow superstructure W powder consisting of nanoparticles was synthesized by spray drying combined with two-step calcination from commercial (NH4)6W7O24·6H2O. The high-pressure gas (HPG) was the significant factor in spray drying process, which affect the BET surface area and average particles size of the spray-dried powders. The detailed influences of calcined steps and calcination temperature in the microstructure and average particles size of final W particles were investigated. The size distribution of as-synthesized nanoscale W particles with hollow superstructure was from 40 to 200 nm, and the average size was about 100 nm. The as-synthesized W powder shows good sintering properties. It should be noted that the powder technology in this study can be used to synthesize other powders with high-performance requirements. .