Defect engineering has been used to develop low-cost and effective catalysts to boost oxygen reduction reactions. However, the development of catalysts that use metal cation vacancies as the active sites for oxygen re...
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Defect engineering has been used to develop low-cost and effective catalysts to boost oxygen reduction reactions. However, the development of catalysts that use metal cation vacancies as the active sites for oxygen reduction reaction is lacking. In this study, ZnS nanoparticles on N-doped carbon serve as an oxygen reduction reaction catalyst. These catalysts were prepared via a one-step method at 900 °C. Amazingly, the high-resolution transmission electron microscope image revealed obvious defects in the ZnS nanoparticles. These facilitated the catalyst synthesis, and the product displayed good electrocatalytic performance for the oxygen reduction reaction in an alkaline medium, including a lower onset potential, lower mid-wave potential, four electron transfer process, and better durability compared with 20 wt% Pt/C. More importantly, the density functional theory results indicated that using the Zn vacancies in the prepared catalyst as active sites required a lower reaction energy to produce OOH* from *OO toward oxygen reduction reaction. Therefore, the proposed catalyst with Zn vacancies can be used as a potential electrocatalyst and may be substitutes for Pt-based catalysts in fuel cells, given the novel catalyst’s resulting performance.
Erratum to Liu,J.,Qian,Y.,Li,*** ***-soluble polymer brushes-functionalized nanoMOFs for highly efficient friction and wear *** 12(7):1499-1511(2024).https://***/10.1007/s40544-023-0823-x The authors regret that there...
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Erratum to Liu,J.,Qian,Y.,Li,*** ***-soluble polymer brushes-functionalized nanoMOFs for highly efficient friction and wear *** 12(7):1499-1511(2024).https://***/10.1007/s40544-023-0823-x The authors regret that there was a misspelling of the author Dongsheng Li’s name on the webpage of this article,and the author information on the webpage of this article should be corrected as.
DE-GMAW(Double-Electrode Gas Metal Arc Welding) is a novel and high effective welding method. According to the problems, such as the instability of welding process and the big welding spatter in welding process, a rap...
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DE-GMAW(Double-Electrode Gas Metal Arc Welding) is a novel and high effective welding method. According to the problems, such as the instability of welding process and the big welding spatter in welding process, a rapid prototyping control system about xpc real-time target machine was designed to control the welding process with nine-point control method. The result shows that, the stable welding process can be acquired by the control system designed in DE-GMAW process, and good weld forming and lower spatter can also be ensured.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is now a widely used modality for providing multimodal, high-quality soft tissue contrast images with good spatiotemporal resolution but without subjecting patients to ionizing radiati...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is now a widely used modality for providing multimodal, high-quality soft tissue contrast images with good spatiotemporal resolution but without subjecting patients to ionizing radiation. In addition to its diagnostic potential, its future theranostic value lies in its ability to provide MRI-guided robot intervention with combined structural and functional mapping, as well as integrated instrument localization, target recognition, and in situ, in vivo monitoring of the therapeutic efficacy. Areas of current applications include neurosurgery, breast biopsy, cardiovascular intervention, prostate biopsy and radiotherapy. Emerging applications in targeted drug delivery and MRI-guided chemoembolization are also being pursued. Whilst promising progress has been made in recent years, there are still significant basic science research and engineering challenges. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-art in MRI-guided robot intervention and allied technologies in actuation, sensing, new materials, interventional instruments, and interactive/real-time MRI. Potential future research directions and new clinical developments are also discussed.
The influence of different coatings on the weldability of Al/steel was assessed in this study. Different kinds of the coatings, which included pure zinc coating, Fe-Zn coating and without coating, were considered. The...
The influence of different coatings on the weldability of Al/steel was assessed in this study. Different kinds of the coatings, which included pure zinc coating, Fe-Zn coating and without coating, were considered. The thickness of the coating was also studied. Different configuration of overlap and butt joint was used, and different welding methods including cold metal transfer (CMT) welding-brazing and laser welding-brazing with filler metal were investigated. Samples were fabricated and the weld appearance, microstructure and composition analyses of the joints were examined. It was found that the Al to steel without coating could not be welded due to the formation of large amount of brittle Fe-Al intermetallic compounds (IMC). The coating helped suppress the formation of IMC and a welding-brazing joint was produced. However, pure Zn coating enhanced the wetting of molten filler onto the solid steel substrate, but Fe-Zn coating barely enhanced the molten filler to wet the steel substrate. The coating with a thickness of 10-20 μm contributed to a better performance of Al/steel joint.
In this study, a thermal–phase–mechanical coupled numerical model was presented for the prediction of the distribution of temperature, phase and residual stress of 42CrMo steel during two-track laser hardening proce...
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Excitons, which represent a type of quasi-particles consisting of electron-hole pairs bound by the mutual Coulomb interaction, were often observed in lowly-doped semiconductors or insulators. However, realizing excito...
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A new approach to produce polypropylene random copolymer/ethylene propylene diene monomer/polyolefin elastomers modified with maleic anhydride/organic modified nanomontmorillonite (PPR/EPDM/POE-g-MA/OMMT) nanocomposit...
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Manipulation of octahedral distortion at atomic length scale is an effective means to tune the physical ground states of functional oxides. Previous work demonstrates that epitaxial strain and film thickness are varia...
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