American Elements specializes in producing spray dry and non-spray dry high purity Beryllium OxidePowder with the smallest possible average grain sizes for use in preparation of pressed and bonded sputtering targets and in Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) processes including Thermal and Electron Beam (E-Beam) Evaporation, Low Temperature Organic Evaporation, Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Metallic-Organic and Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD). Powders are also useful in any application where high surface areas are desired such as water treatment and in fuel cell and solar applications. Nanoparticles (See also Nanotechnology Information and Quantum Dots) also produce very high surface areas. Our standard Powder particle sizes average in the range of - 325 mesh, - 100 mesh, 10-50 microns and submicron (< 1 micron) and our spray dried powder with binder provides an extremely narrow particle size distribution (PSD) for use in thermal and plasma spray guns and other coating applications. We can also provide many materials in the nanoscale range. Materials are produced using crystallization, solid state and other ultra high purification processes such as sublimation. American Elements specializes in producing custom compositions for commercial and research applications and for new proprietary technologies. American Elements also casts any of the rare earth metals and most other advanced materials into rod, bar or plate form, as well as other machined shapes and through other processes such as nanoparticles (See also application discussion at Nanotechnology Information and at Quantum Dots) and in the form of solutions and organometallics. We also produce Beryllium Oxide as pellets, pieces, tablets, and sputtering target. Oxide compounds are not conductive to electricity. However, certain perovskite structured oxides are electronically conductive finding application in the cathode of solid oxide fuel cells and oxygen generation systems. See safety data and research below and pricing/lead time above. Other shapes are available by request.
Beryllium is a Block S, Group 2, Period 2 element. The number of electrons in each of Beryllium's shells is 2, 2 and its electronic configuration is [He] 2s2. In its elemental form beryllium's CAS number is 7440-41-7. The beryllium atom has a radius of 111.3.pm and it's Van der Waals radius is 200.pm. Beryllium and its salts are toxic as well as carcinogenic. Beryllium is most commonly used in alloys with our base metallic materials. As a 1 - 3% addition to copper it produces "beryllium bronze", a highly wear resistant material and with nickel it is used to make spot welder electrodes. Beryllium is available as metal and compounds with purities from 99% to 99.999% (ACS grade to ultra-high purity); metals in the form of foil, sputtering target, and rod, and compounds as submicron and nanopowder. It is used as a coating on X-ray tubes because it is transparent to the X-ray range. It emits neutrons on bombardment by alpha rays. It also has applications in the nuclear industry. Beryllium was first discovered by Abbé René-Just Hauy in 1798. The origin of the name Beryllium comes from the Greek word 'beryllos' meaning beryl. See Beryllium research below.
PACKAGING SPECIFICATIONS FOR BULK & RESEARCH QUANTITIES
Typical bulk packaging includes palletized plastic 5 gallon/25 kg. pails, fiber and steel drums to 1 ton super sacks in full container (FCL) or truck load (T/L) quantities. Research and sample quantities and hygroscopic, oxidizing or other air sensitive materials may be packaged under argon or vacuum. Shipping documentation includes a Certificate of Analysis and Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS). Solutions are packaged in polypropylene, plastic or glass jars up to palletized 440 gallon liquid totes.
Dietary Intake of Metals by the Population of Tarragona County (Catalonia, Spain): Results from a Duplicate Diet Study.
Domingo JL, Perelló G, Giné Bordonaba J.
Biol Trace Elem Res. 2011 Nov 29. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID:
22124862
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Analysis of thomson scattering from nonequilibrium plasmas.
Chapman DA, Gericke DO.
Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Oct 14;107(16):165004. Epub 2011 Oct 12.
PMID:
22107396
[PubMed - in process]
Discrimination of zeolites and beryllium containing silicates using portable Raman spectroscometric equipment with near-infrared excitation.
Jehlicka J, Vandenabeele P, Edwards HG.
Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2011 Oct 25. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID:
22099060
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Deposition of beryllium-7 in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Chao JH, Chiu YJ, Lee HP, Lee MC.
Appl Radiat Isot. 2012 Feb;70(2):415-22. Epub 2011 Oct 29.
PMID:
22056921
[PubMed - in process]
Preparation, certification and interlaboratory analysis of workplace air filters spiked with high-fired beryllium oxide.
Oatts TJ, Hicks CE, Adams AR, Brisson MJ, Youmans-McDonald LD, Hoover MD, Ashley K.
J Environ Monit. 2011 Oct 25. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID:
22025111
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Immunotoxicity of 3 chemical forms of beryllium following inhalation exposure.
Muller C, Salehi F, Mazer B, Bouchard M, Adam-Poupart A, Chevalier G, Truchon G, Lambert J, Zayed J.
Int J Toxicol. 2011 Oct;30(5):538-45.
PMID:
22013136
[PubMed - in process]
H(2) Molecules Encapsulated in Extended Be(n) Cluster Cages: Toward Light-Metal Nanofoams for Hydrogen Storage.
Naumkin FY, Wales DJ.
J Phys Chem A. 2011 Nov 10;115(44):12105-10. Epub 2011 Oct 14.
PMID:
21999658
[PubMed - in process]
Occupational exposure to beryllium in primary aluminium production.
Skaugset NP, Ellingsen DG, Dahl K, Martinsen I, Jordbekken L, Drabløs PA, Thomassen Y.
J Environ Monit. 2011 Oct 13. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID:
21993554
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
The ground-state potential energy function of a beryllium dimer determined using the single-reference coupled-cluster approach.
Koput J.
Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2011 Dec 7;13(45):20311-7. Epub 2011 Oct 13.
PMID:
21993509
[PubMed - in process]
Beryllium: a paradigm for occupational lung disease and its prevention.
Kreiss K.
Occup Environ Med. 2011 Nov;68(11):787-8. No abstract available.
PMID:
21984591
[PubMed - in process]
Beryllium-specific CD4+ T cells in blood as a biomarker of disease progression.
Martin AK, Mack DG, Falta MT, Mroz MM, Newman LS, Maier LA, Fontenot AP.
J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2011 Nov;128(5):1100-6.e1-5. Epub 2011 Sep 23.
PMID:
21943943
[PubMed - in process]
On the stability of Be3: a benchmark complete active space self-consistent field + averaged quadratic coupled cluster study.
Amaro-Estrada JI, Scemama A, Caffarel M, Ramírez-Solís A.
J Chem Phys. 2011 Sep 14;135(10):104311.
PMID:
21932897
[PubMed - in process]
Fast IMRT with narrow high energy scanned photon beams.
Andreassen B, Strååt SJ, Holmberg R, Näfstadius P, Brahme A.
Med Phys. 2011 Aug;38(8):4774-84.
PMID:
21928650
[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Solubility and chemistry of materials encountered by beryllium mine and ore extraction workers: relation to risk.
Deubner DC, Sabey P, Huang W, Fernandez D, Rudd A, Johnson WP, Storrs J, Larson R.
J Occup Environ Med. 2011 Oct;53(10):1187-93.
PMID:
21926919
[PubMed - in process]
Air toxics exposure from vehicle emissions at a U.S. border crossing: Buffalo Peace Bridge Study.
Spengler J, Lwebuga-Mukasa J, Vallarino J, Melly S, Chillrud S, Baker J, Minegishi T.
Res Rep Health Eff Inst. 2011 Jul;(158):5-132.
PMID:
21913504
[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
An independent review and prioritization of past radionuclide and chemical releases from the Los Alamos National Laboratory - implications for future dose reconstruction studies.
Le MH, Buddenbaum JE, Burns RE Jr, Shonka JJ, Gaffney SH, Donovan EP, Flack SM, Widner TE.
J Environ Monit. 2011 Oct 4;13(10):2735-47. Epub 2011 Sep 9.
PMID:
21904770
[PubMed - in process]
Tritium plasma experiment: parameters and potentials for fusion plasma-wall interaction studies.
Shimada M, Kolasinski RD, Sharpe JP, Causey RA.
Rev Sci Instrum. 2011 Aug;82(8):083503.
PMID:
21895244
[PubMed - in process]
Fluorescence "Turn-On" chemosensor for the selective detection of beryllium.
Hosseini M, Vaezi Z, Ganjali MR, Faridbod F, Abkenar SD.
Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2011 Dec;83(1):161-4. Epub 2011 Aug 18.
PMID:
21890399
[PubMed - in process]
Vertical migration of radionuclides in the vicinity of the chernobyl confinement shelter.
Bondarkov MD, Zheltonozhsky VA, Zheltonozhskaya MV, Kulich NV, Maksimenko AM, Farfán EB, Jannik GT, Marra JC.
Health Phys. 2011 Oct;101(4):362-7.
PMID:
21878761
[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Sensitization and chronic beryllium disease at a primary manufacturing facility, part 3: exposure-response among short-term workers.
Schuler CR, Virji MA, Deubner DC, Stanton ML, Stefaniak AB, Day GA, Park JY, Kent MS, Sparks R, Kreiss K.
Scand J Work Environ Health. 2011 Aug 29. pii: 3192. doi: 10.5271/sjweh.3192. [Epub ahead of print]
PMID:
21877099
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
American Elements specializes in producing spray dry and non-spray dry high purity Beryllium OxidePowder with the smallest possible average grain sizes for use in preparation of pressed and bonded sputtering targets and in Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) processes including Thermal and Electron Beam (E-Beam) Evaporation, Low Temperature Organic Evaporation, Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD), Metallic-Organic and Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD). Powders are also useful in any application where high surface areas are desired such as water treatment and in fuel cell and solar applications. Nanoparticles (See also Nanotechnology Information and Quantum Dots) also produce very high surface areas. Our standard Powder particle sizes average in the range of - 325 mesh, - 100 mesh, 10-50 microns and submicron (< 1 micron) and our spray dried powder with binder provides an extremely narrow particle size distribution (PSD) for use in thermal and plasma spray guns and other coating applications. We can also provide many materials in the nanoscale range. Materials are produced using crystallization, solid state and other ultra high purification processes such as sublimation. American Elements specializes in producing custom compositions for commercial and research applications and for new proprietary technologies. American Elements also casts any of the rare earth metals and most other advanced materials into rod, bar or plate form, as well as other machined shapes and through other processes such as nanoparticles (See also application discussion at Nanotechnology Information and at Quantum Dots) and in the form of solutions and organometallics. We also produce Beryllium Oxide as pellets, pieces, tablets, and sputtering target. Oxide compounds are not conductive to electricity. However, certain perovskite structured oxides are electronically conductive finding application in the cathode of solid oxide fuel cells and oxygen generation systems. See safety data and research below and pricing/lead time above. Other shapes are available by request.
Beryllium is a Block S, Group 2, Period 2 element. The number of electrons in each of Beryllium's shells is 2, 2 and its electronic configuration is [He] 2s2. In its elemental form beryllium's CAS number is 7440-41-7. The beryllium atom has a radius of 111.3.pm and it's Van der Waals radius is 200.pm. Beryllium and its salts are toxic as well as carcinogenic. Beryllium is most commonly used in alloys with our base metallic materials. As a 1 - 3% addition to copper it produces 
"beryllium bronze", a highly wear resistant material and with nickel it is used to make spot welder electrodes. Beryllium is available as metal and compounds with purities from 99% to 99.999% (ACS grade to ultra-high purity); metals in the form of foil, sputtering target, and rod, and compounds as submicron and nanopowder. It is used as a coating on X-ray tubes 
because it is transparent to the X-ray range. It emits neutrons on bombardment by alpha rays. It also has applications in the nuclear industry. Beryllium was first discovered by Abbé René-Just Hauy in 1798. The origin of the name Beryllium comes from the Greek word 'beryllos' meaning beryl. See Beryllium research below.
