This study presents the design and implementation of a chip-scale amperometric ethanol sensor using the standard commercially available complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process together with the post-CMO...
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In the present study, a systematic comparison of additively manufactured CoCrNi medium entropy alloy having face-centered-cubic (FCC) structure with standard FCC materials 316L austenitic stainless steel was carried o...
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Organic active units often transform into radical intermediates during the redox processes but exhibit poor cycling stability due to the uncontrollable redox of the radicals. Herein, we report a facile and efficient s...
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Organic active units often transform into radical intermediates during the redox processes but exhibit poor cycling stability due to the uncontrollable redox of the radicals. Herein, we report a facile and efficient strategy to modulate the molecular orbital energies, charge transport capacities, and spin electron densities of the active units in covalent organic frameworks(COFs) via regulating the conjugated unit size to optimize the redox activity and stability of the organic radicals. COFs based on different imide conjugated units exhibit tunable discharge voltages, rate performance and cycling stabilities. Detailed characterizations and theoretical calculation reveal that imide radicals are the important active intermediates during the redox processes of these COFs. Specifically, increasing the size of the imide conjugated units could effectively delocalize the radical electrons and improve the stability of the COFs electrodes. This study offers a very effective strategy to modulate the redox chemistry of organic materials for electrochemical energy storage.
In this study, we focused on depositing a target material, cobalt-iron-dysprosium (Co60Fe20Dy20), onto silicon (Si) (100) substrates with thickness varying from 10 nm to 50 nm through a direct-current (DC) m...
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The hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)is the cathodic process of water splitting,and its reverse,the hydrogen oxidation reaction(HOR),is the anodic process of an H-Ofuel cell;both play important roles in the development...
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The hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)is the cathodic process of water splitting,and its reverse,the hydrogen oxidation reaction(HOR),is the anodic process of an H-Ofuel cell;both play important roles in the development of hydrogen *** rational design and scalable fabrication of low-cost and efficient bifunctional catalysts for the HER/HOR are highly ***,ultrasmall Mo-Ru nanoalloy(Mo_(0.5)Ru_(3)and Mo_(0.5)Ru_(3))particles uniformly distributed on mesoporous carbon(MPC)were successfully synthesized by a simple method that is easy to scale up for mass *** the incorporation of Mo atoms,the as-prepared Mo_(0.5)Ru_(3)and Mo_(0.5)Ru_(3)nanoalloys maintain a hexagonal-close-packed crystal *** acidic media,Mo_(0.5)Ru_(3)exhibits excellent Pt-like HER and HOR activity,as well as good *** functional theory(DFT)calculations reveal that the H adsorption free energy(ΔG)on the Mo_(0.5)Ru_(3)(001)surface(-0.09 eV)is much closer to zero than that of metallic Ru(-0.22 eV),which contributes to the enhanced catalytic *** alkaline media,Mo_(0.5)Ru_(3)also presents outstanding HER and HOR activity,even significantly outperforming Pt/*** DFT results confirm that optimal binding energies with H*and OH*intermediate species,and low energy barriers in the water dissociation and formation steps,efficiently accelerate the alkaline HER/HOR kinetics of Mo_(0.5)Ru_(3).This study provides a new avenue for the scalable fabrication of high-efficiency bifunctional electrocatalysts for the HER and HOR in both acidic and alkaline media.
The inherent electrocatalytic potential of transition metal phosphides(TMPs)for oxygen evolution is influenced by the reduced efficiency of electron transfer resulting from the interaction between electronegative phos...
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The inherent electrocatalytic potential of transition metal phosphides(TMPs)for oxygen evolution is influenced by the reduced efficiency of electron transfer resulting from the interaction between electronegative phosphorus atoms and transition ***,we introduce Fe into Ni_(2)P nanocrystals by thermal injection synthesis method,and anchor them on nickel foam(NF)by facile spraying to prepare self-supporting oxygen evolution reaction(OER)***,the optimized electrode of Ni_(2)P-Fe-2/NF demonstrates low overpotentials of 212 mV with 10 mA·cm^(-2)and a 0.9%decay within300 h test of 50 mA·cm^(-2).Notably,when electrode size was expanded to 600 cm^(2)and applied to a larger electrolyzer,its 9 h decay rate at 6 A current was only 1.69%.Characterization results show that Fe doped NiOOH is generated during OER reaction as actual catalyst,Results from density functional theory(DFT)computations suggest that Fe doping shifts NiOOH d-band center to Fermi level,lowering critical *OOH intermediates formation energy barrier during the OER *** findings inform the large-scale industrial application of TMPs as robust electrocatalysts.
Norway is one of the countries with the highest registered incidence of hip fractures in the world. About 60% of the hip fractures are in the femoral neck, few in the caput and the rest are in the trochanteric region,...
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This study investigated the atomic-scale deformation mechanism of multiphase CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys(HEAs)at liquid helium,liquid nitrogen,and room temperatures.A million-atom multiphase HEA was prepared using mo...
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This study investigated the atomic-scale deformation mechanism of multiphase CoCrFeNi high-entropy alloys(HEAs)at liquid helium,liquid nitrogen,and room temperatures.A million-atom multiphase HEA was prepared using molecular dynamics simulation involving melt and quench *** HEA exhibited high-density dislocations and some twins,consistent with experimental *** analysis revealed an inconsistent evolution of the microstructure under tensile *** particular,the elastic and initial plastic stages exhibited an increase in the disordered structure at the expense of the face-centered cubic and hexagonal close-packed structures,followed by a subsequent transformation involving multiple structural ***,through sparse identification,a model depicting microstructural evolution during tension was extracted for the CoCrFeNi HEA at three typical temperatures and three tensile *** model highlighted the importance of the body-centered cubic structure in the evolutionary process.
engineering components are frequently discarded after they develop cracks, requiring replacement with new high embodied energy components. In this paper, self-healingSelf-healingaluminumAluminum matrix compositesCompo...
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In the monolayer limit, 1T′ WTe2 is a two-dimensional topological insulator exhibiting the quantum spin Hall effect and is believed to host an excitonic insulator ground state. However, theoretical analysis of this s...
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In the monolayer limit, 1T′ WTe2 is a two-dimensional topological insulator exhibiting the quantum spin Hall effect and is believed to host an excitonic insulator ground state. However, theoretical analysis of this system is complicated by the difficulty of obtaining descriptions of the single-quasiparticle band structure consistent with experimental measurement within conventional first-principles techniques. Previous band-structure calculations using the Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof functional and a one-shot GW approximation result in a semimetallic band structure, while calculations with hybrid functionals appear to open a band gap. Here, we demonstrate that self-consistently updating wave functions within a static GW approximation (static COHSEX) can reproduce the insulating band structure experimentally observed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy without resorting to mechanisms beyond the quasiparticle picture. Finally, a finite-momentum Bethe-Salpeter equation calculation on top of self-consistent GW results in negative exciton excitation energies, leaving open the possibility of excitonic instability in 1T′ monolayer WTe2.
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