Vol 471, No 1 (2016)

Performed for the first time, the thermodynamic analysis of oxygen solutions in titanium-containing Fe–Co melts showed that the deoxidizing power of titanium with increasing cobalt content of the melt first decreases, reaches a minimum at a cobalt content of 20%, and then increases. The titanium contents [%Ti]* at equilibrium points between the oxide phases TiO₂, Ti₃O₅, and Ti₂O₃ were determined. The curves of the oxygen solubility in titanium-containing iron–cobalt melts pass through a minimum, which shifts toward lower titanium contents with increasing cobalt content of the melt. Further alloying with titanium leads to an increase in the oxygen concentration of the melt so that the higher cobalt content of the melt, the steeper the increase in the oxygen content after the minimum as titanium is added to the melt.

A method for modification of the inert electrode surface with an electroactive polymeric film containing the CoN₄ catalytic site has been suggested and approved. The described approach affords the maximal content of the metal porphine moiety per unit weight of the coating. The classical method of introduction of an ion into the porphine macrocycle has been replaced by electrochemical polarization of an electrode with a metallated film in a dilute solution. The metalation efficiency has been demonstrated by the presence of changes in the current–voltage and spectral characteristics of the resulting polymeric films of the unsubstituted porphine pH₂P and cobalt polyporphine pCoP.

Sulfonated polyphenylquinoxalines with different content of sulfo groups have been synthesized by polymer analogous reactions under different conditions. The rheological properties of these polymers in Nmethylpyrrolidone have been studied. The mechanical properties of films based on sulfonated polyphenylquinoxalines under uniaxial tension have been measured. The structures of the polymers have been examined by AFM.