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Ru/CeO2 catalysts with different amounts of surface oxygen vacancies were prepared by changing the morphology of CeO2. The conversion of Ce4+ to Ce3+ and the formation of Ru–O–Ce bonds led to enhancement of the amount of oxygen vacancies. Ru species of low crystallinity enriched with Ru4+ ions exist on the surface of CeO2 nanorods, while metallic Ru particles exist on CeO2 nanocubes. The low crystallinity of Ru species and high concentration of oxygen vacancies enhanced the adsorption of hydrogen and nitrogen and also led to desorption of surface hydrogen in the form of H2. Therefore, Ru/CeO2 nanorods showed high ammonia synthesis activities. On the contrary, lower catalytic activity was observed over Ru/CeO2 nanocubes catalyst because H2 and N2 adsorption was less favorable plausibly due to the large particle size of Ru species and low concentration of oxygen vacancies, and most of the hydrogen species were consumed in H2O formation.

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The development of microdamage under the deformation conditions of high temperature creep, cold metal forming, superplastic forming, and hot metal forming has been reviewed and discussed, and typical constitutive equations developed to model the individual damage mechanisms are summarized. Based on the microstructural analysis of the key damage features for metallic materials under a wide range of deformation conditions, a set of schematic diagrams is designed to illustrate the major types of damage mechanisms. This helps researchers and engineers to understand the major cause of failure of materials under different deformation conditions and to select simple and appropriate mechanism-based damage equations to predict the damage evolution. Further discussions are carried out on the dominant damage mechanisms in hot metal forming conditions and it is concluded that the dominant damage mechanism can be 'grain boundary (creeptype) damage' or 'plasticity-induced (ductile) damage' depending on the material microstructure and deformation rate. In the case of grain boundary damage in hot forming, the shape of microdefects is different from those in high temperature creep and superplastic forming although all of those result in intergranular failure of materials. Furthermore, damage calibration techniques for different conditions of plastic deformation are summarized and discussed.KEY WORDS: damage mechanisms, damage calibrations, creep and viscoplasticity, cold and hot metal forming.