Agglomerated fluxes with different basicity index designed in laboratory were used to study electrochemical reactions between slag and metal in submerged arc welding under both power polarities. The droplet metal oxygen and nitrogen contents were measured using oxygen-nitrogen instrument in order to analyze indirectly metallurgy electrochemical reactions taking place in cathode and anode of welding arc. The results show that just in the period of droplet growth at the tip of consumable electrode the electrochemical oxygen contamination is produced in the case of direct current electrode positive polarity whereas electrochemical oxygen lost in electrode negative polarity. Furthermore, the results indicate that the basicity index of molten slag has great influence upon electrochemical reaction. With basicity index increasing, the effect of oxygen transferring resulted from electrochemistry becomes more evident for reacting dynamics depended on ion characteristics of molten slag. The effect of basicity index on metal-slag electrochemical reaction is contrary to traditional thermo-chemical reaction and therefore it is necessary to be considered as a metallurgy factor.
Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) and Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) with optimum band gaps about 1.5 eV are important absorbers for solar cells. The elastic constants and the thermo-physical properties of the stannite-type CZTS and CZTSe are calculated by using density-functional theory (DFT) and the quasi-harmonic Debye model. The bonding strength along the [100] and [010] directions is the same to that along the [001] direction and the shear elastic properties of the {001} plane are anisotropic for CZTS and CZTSe. Both compounds exhibit ductile behavior due to their high ratio of bulk modulus to shear modulus (K/G). The values of thermal capacity are close to 200 J/(mol·K) at above 300 K, and the thermal expansion coefficients decrease with increasing pressure at same temperature. The entropy is variable by power-exponent, and the internal energy is almost linear with increasing temperature for CZTS and CZTSe. The Gibbs energy of CZTS is lower than that of CZTSe under same temperature and pressure. The Debye temperatures are 297 and 232 K, and Grneisen parameters are 2.36 and 2.37 for CZTS and CZTSe at 300 K, respectively.
