Electrochemical glycerol oxidation(EGO)emerges as a promising route to valorize glycerol,an underutilized byproduct from biodiesel production,into value-added *** study employed three types of gold(Au)nanocrystals wit...
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Electrochemical glycerol oxidation(EGO)emerges as a promising route to valorize glycerol,an underutilized byproduct from biodiesel production,into value-added *** study employed three types of gold(Au)nanocrystals with controlled shapes to elucidate the facet-dependent electrocatalytic behavior in ***,rhombic dodecahedral,and cubic Au nanocrystals with{111},{110},and{100}facets,respectively,were precisely synthesized with uniform size and *** dodecahedra exhibited the lowest onset potential for EGO due to facile AuOH formation,while octahedra showed enhanced electrochemical activity for glycerol oxidation and resistance to ***-situ FTIR analysis revealed that Au{111}surfaces selectively favored C_(2) products,whereas Au{100}surfaces promoted C_(3) product formation,highlighting the significant effect of facet orientation on EGO performance and informing catalyst design.
Laser direct writing employing multi-photon 3D polymerisation is a scientific and industrial tool used in various fields such as micro-optics,medicine,metamaterials,programmable materials,etc.,due to the fusion of hig...
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Laser direct writing employing multi-photon 3D polymerisation is a scientific and industrial tool used in various fields such as micro-optics,medicine,metamaterials,programmable materials,etc.,due to the fusion of highthroughput and fine features down to hundreds of *** limitations of technology applicability emerge from photo-resin properties,however any material modifications can strongly affect its printability,as photoexcitation conditions alter as *** we present wavelength-independent 3D polymerisation using low peak power laser *** pulse repetition rate and fast laser direct writing was employed for advancing additive manufacturing out of the SZ2080^(TM)photo-resist without any *** of 517 nm,780 nm,and 1035 nm are shown to be suitable for producing 300 nm polymerized features even at high-up to 10^(5)μm/s-writing *** of organic-inorganic ratio in hybrid material results in shift and decrease of the dynamic fabrication window,yet not prohibiting the *** energy deposition per focal volume is achieved due to localized heating enabling efficient 3D *** spatio-selective photo-chemical crosslinking widens optical manufacturing capacity of non-photo-sensitive materials.
The slow kinetics at the cathode of oxygen reduction reaction(ORR)seriously limits the efficiencies of fuel cells and metal-air ***,the state-of-the-art ORR electrocatalyst,suffers from high cost,low earth abundance,a...
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The slow kinetics at the cathode of oxygen reduction reaction(ORR)seriously limits the efficiencies of fuel cells and metal-air ***,the state-of-the-art ORR electrocatalyst,suffers from high cost,low earth abundance,and poor *** a self-templated strategy based on metal-organic frameworks(MOFs)is proposed for the fabrication of hollow nitrogen-doped carbon spheres that are embedded with cobalt nanoparticles(Co/HNC).The Co/HNC manifests better ORR activities,methanol tolerance,and stability than commercial Pt/*** high ORR performance of Co/NHC can be attributed to the hollow structure which provides enlarged electrochemically active surface area,the formation of more Co-N species,and the introduction of *** work highlights the significance of rational engineering of MOFs for enhanced ORR activity and stability and offers new routes to the design and synthesis of high-performance electrocatalysts.
A physics-constrained deep learning surrogate that predicts the exponential "avalanche" growth rate of runaway electrons (REs) for a plasma containing partially ionized impurities is developed. Specifically,...
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We design microresonators for octave-spanning soliton frequency comb generation in silicon nitride. We lock the repetition rate via an electro-optic comb and achieve phase noise of -130-dBc/Hz, with the resultant modu...
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Yu QiaoProgram of Materials Science and Engineering
University of California–San Diego La Jolla California 92093 USA and Department of Structural Engineering University of California–San Diego La Jolla California 92093-0085 USA
Recent research on the fundamentals of statistical mechanics has led to an interesting discovery. With locally nonchaotic barriers, as Boltzmann's H theorem is inapplicable, there exist nontrivial nonthermodynamic...
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Recent research on the fundamentals of statistical mechanics has led to an interesting discovery. With locally nonchaotic barriers, as Boltzmann's H theorem is inapplicable, there exist nontrivial nonthermodynamic systems that can produce useful work by absorbing heat from a single thermal reservoir without any other effect, thereby breaking the boundaries of the second law of thermodynamics. The previous analyses used classical mechanical models. In the current investigation, the study is extended to quantum mechanics. First, we reiterate that the Fermi-Dirac distribution and the Bose-Einstein distribution are compatible with the generalized Maxwell's relations, which demonstrates the general robustness of the framework of quantum statistical mechanics. Next, we analyze a set of simple-step scattering problems. When the system is in contact with a thermal reservoir, a bound state inherently follows the second law of thermodynamics, while a scattering state may not. The root cause is associated with the nonlocal nature of the wave function. It implies that the nonthermodynamic phenomena favor unquantized energy and localized wave packets, exhibiting a tendency to occur in “semiclassical” setups.
We design microresonators for octave-spanning soliton frequency comb generation in silicon nitride. We lock the repetition rate via an electro-optic comb and achieve phase noise of -130-dBc/Hz, with the resultant modu...
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In this paper, Graphene Aerogel (GA) is prepared and investigated for its potential employment for solar energy harvesting applications. GA can be applied in solar cells applications as an absorption material and as a...
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Structural coloration, a color-generation mechanism often found in nature, arises from light-matter interactions such as diffraction, interference and scattering, with micro- and nanostructured elements. Herein, we sy...
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The advancement of graphene has created a need in exploring its properties for different applications. One way to explore its properties is by reducing its hydrophobicity. To overcome hydrophobicity of graphene, surfa...
The advancement of graphene has created a need in exploring its properties for different applications. One way to explore its properties is by reducing its hydrophobicity. To overcome hydrophobicity of graphene, surfactants have been used in functionalization, hence improving the surface properties of the graphene monolayer. Therefore, investigating surfactant treatment for CVD graphene becomes useful in understanding the surface property effects on graphene. This study utilizes CVD graphene on silicon substrates. Its treatment was done with varying concentrations of Sodium Cholate (SC) for different treatment times. These samples were then characterized using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) to investigate the surface properties of the samples before and after treatment. To be optimized, the graphene must remain attached to the silicon substrate. The result shows that the integrity of the graphene, which is basically the Sp2 structure, is preserved as there was no delamination from the substrate even after treatment for as long as 2 hours in 1% weight/volume concentration of the SC solution.
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