Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones, have many potential uses in real world applications. Drones require advanced planning and navigation algorithms to enable them to safely move through and inter...
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Exploring efficient and cost-effective electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is critical to water splitting. While nickel-iron layered double hydroxide (NiFe LDH) has been long recognized as a promising...
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Exploring efficient and cost-effective electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is critical to water splitting. While nickel-iron layered double hydroxide (NiFe LDH) has been long recognized as a promising nonprecious electrocatalyst for OER, its intrinsic activity needs further improvement. Herein, we design a highly-efficient oxygen evolution electrode based on defective NiFe LDH nanoarray. By combing the merits of the modulated electronic structure, more exposed active sites, and the conductive electrode, the defective NiFe LDH electrocatalysts show a low onset potential of 1.40 V (vs. RHE). An overpotential of only 200 mV is required for 10 mA cm~(–2), which is 48 mV lower than that of pristine NiFe-LDH. Density functional theory plus U (DFT+U) calculations are further employed for the origin of this OER activity enhancement. We find the introduction of oxygen vacancies leads to a lower valance state of Fe and the narrowed bandgap, which means the electrons tend to be easily excited into the conduction band, resulting in the lowered reaction overpotential and enhanced OER performance.
Distributed coordination algorithms (DCA) carry out information processing processes among a group of networked agents without centralized information fusion. Though it is well known that DCA characterized by an SIA (...
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In this paper, the control problem is addressed for a hybrid PDE-ODE system that describes a nonuniform gantry crane system with constrained tension. A bottom payload hangs from the top gantry by connecting a flexible...
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Binary NiFe layer double hydroxide (LDH) serves as a benchmark non‐noble metal electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction, however, it still needs a relatively high overpotential to achieve the threshold curre...
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Binary NiFe layer double hydroxide (LDH) serves as a benchmark non‐noble metal electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction, however, it still needs a relatively high overpotential to achieve the threshold current density. Herein the catalyst's electronic structure is tuned by doping vanadium ions into the NiFe LDHs laminate forming ternary NiFeV LDHs to reduce the onset potential, achieving unprecedentedly efficient electrocatalysis for water oxidation. Only 1.42 V (vs reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE), ≈195 mV overpotential) is required to achieve catalytic current density of 20 mA cm −2 with a small Tafel slope of 42 mV dec −1 in 1 m KOH solution, which manifests the best of NiFe‐based catalysts reported till now. Electrochemical analysis and density functional theory +U simulation indicate that the high catalytic activity of NiFeV LDHs mainly attributes to the vanadium doping which can modify the electronic structure and narrow the bandgap thereby bring enhanced conductivity, facile electron transfer, and abundant active sites.
Loss of lower extremities has been one of the main problems in human life. Although most of the available knee devices are aesthetically acceptable, there is a necessity for lighter and more compact mechanisms, especi...
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones, have many potential uses in real world applications. Drones require advanced planning and navigation algorithms to enable them to safely move through and inter...
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones, have many potential uses in real world applications. Drones require advanced planning and navigation algorithms to enable them to safely move through and interact with the world around them. This paper presents an extended potential field controller (ePFC) which enables an aerial robot, or drone, to safely track a dynamic target location while simultaneously avoiding any obstacles in its path. The ePFC outperforms a traditional potential field controller (PFC) with smoother tracking paths and shorter settling times. The proposed ePFC's stability is evaluated by Lyapunov approach, and its performance is simulated in a Matlab environment. Finally, the controller is implemented on an experimental platform in a laboratory environment which demonstrates the effectiveness of the controller.
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