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American Elements specializes in producing high purity Shot and irregular shaped Osmium Pieces with the highest possible density and smallest possible average grain sizes for use 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). Our standard Pieces sizes average in the range of 3 mm, 4 -5 mm, 100 - 150 mm, 1/8" and 1/4". We can also provide Pieces and Shot outside this 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 Osmium as rod, ingot, powder, pellets, disc, granules, wire, and in compound forms, such as oxide. Other shapes are available by request.

Osmium is a Block D, Group 8, Period 6 element. The electronic configuration is [Xe] 4f14 5d6 6s2. In its elemental form osmium's CAS number is 7440-04-2. The osmium atom has a radius of 133.8.pm and it's Van der Waals radius is 200.pm. Osmium has the highest melting point and the lowest vapor pressure of any of the platinum group of metals. Osmium tetroxide has recently been used to detect fingerprints and as an aid to stain fatty tissue for microscope slides. The metal is almost entirely used to produce very hard alloys with other metals of the platinum group.

Formula CAS No. Appearance Molecular Weight
OsF4 54120-05-7 Yellow Crystalline Solid 266.224
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Recent Research & Development for Osmium

  • Niobium sputtered Havar foils for the high-power production of reactive [(18)F]fluoride by proton irradiation of [(18)O]H(2)O targets. Appl Radiat Isot. 2008 May;66(5):565-70. Epub 2008 Jan 31.

  • Generalized nonaqueous sol-gel synthesis of different transition-metal niobate nanocrystals and analysis of the growth mechanism. Chem Asian J. 2008 Apr 7;3(4):746-52.

  • Extracting Superconducting Single-Crystal Nb Mesowires Out of NbSe2 by a Crystal-Lattice Collapse Method. Nano Lett. 2008 Apr 2. [Epub ahead of print]

  • Production, microstructural characterization and mechanical properties of as-cast Ti-10Mo-xNb alloys. Artif Organs. 2008 Apr;32(4):299-304.

  • Catalytic effects by metal oxides on the formation and degradation of chlorinated aromatic compounds in fly ash. Chemosphere. 2008 Apr;71(6):1135-43. Epub 2007 Dec 3.

  • Energy gaps and Kohn anomalies in elemental superconductors. Science. 2008 Mar 14;319(5869):1509-12. Epub 2008 Feb 21.

  • Nitridation of niobium oxide films by rapid thermal processing. Anal Bioanal Chem. 2008 Mar;390(6):1507-15. Epub 2008 Feb 6.

  • Annealing of thin B/Nb2N bilayers, B/Nb bilayers and Nb/B/Nb trilayers via rapid thermal processing (RTP). Anal Bioanal Chem. 2008 Mar;390(6):1517-25. Epub 2007 Oct 25.

  • Application of Factorial Design and Doehlert Matrix for Determination of Trace Lead in Environmental Samples by On-line Column Preconcentration FAAS Using Silica Gel Chemically Modified with Niobium(V) Oxide. Anal Sci. 2008 Mar;24(3):365-70.

  • Self-assembly and bioactive response of a crystalline metal oxide in a simulated blood fluid. J Mater Sci Mater Med. 2008 Mar;19(3):1349-54. Epub 2007 Oct 4.

  • Direct access to thermally stable and highly crystalline mesoporous transition-metal oxides with uniform pores. Nat Mater. 2008 Mar;7(3):222-8. Epub 2008 Jan 27.

  • First-principles and molecular-dynamics study of structure and bonding in perovskite-type oxynitrides ABO(2)N (A = Ca, Sr, Ba; B = Ta, Nb). J Comput Chem. 2008 Feb 12. [Epub ahead of print]

  • C-C coupling reactions of superstrong CF3 groups with C(sp2)-H bonds: reactivity and synthetic utility of zero-valent niobium catalyst. Chem Asian J. 2008 Feb 1;3(2):261-71.

  • Development of a second generation torsion balance based on a spherical superconducting suspension. Rev Sci Instrum. 2008 Feb;79(2 Pt 1):025103.

  • Electrochemical DNA biosensors based on thin gold films sputtered on capacitive nanoporous niobium oxide. Biosens Bioelectron. 2008 Jan 18;23(6):852-6. Epub 2007 Sep 11.

  • Nanoporous niobium oxide for label-free detection of DNA hybridization events. Talanta. 2008 Jan 15;74(4):1056-9. Epub 2007 Jul 17.

  • Simultaneous on-line pre-concentration and determination of trace metals in environmental samples by flow injection combined with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry using silica gel modified with niobium(V) oxide. Talanta. 2008 Jan 15;74(4):586-92. Epub 2007 Jun 28.

  • Reactivity of niobium and tantalum pentahalides with cyclic ethers and the isolation and characterization of intermediates in the polymerization of tetrahydrofuran. Inorg Chem. 2008 Jan 7;47(1):365-72. Epub 2007 Dec 6.

  • Niobium oxide-supported platinum ultra-low amount electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2008 Jan 7;10(1):159-67. Epub 2007 Nov 5.

  • A reactive niobium phosphinidene P8 cluster obtained by reductive coupling of white phosphorus. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2008;47(1):169-72. No abstract available.

 

 

 

 

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