Recently,significant efforts have been exerted to replace mineral oil with environmentally friendly oils due to safety and environmental ***,there is a need to clarify the physical mechanisms behind the ageing impact ...
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Recently,significant efforts have been exerted to replace mineral oil with environmentally friendly oils due to safety and environmental ***,there is a need to clarify the physical mechanisms behind the ageing impact of these *** authors use advanced optical spectroscopy techniques in correlation with dielectric measurements to understand the ageing processes in environmentally friendly oils as well as mineral ***,different samples of environmentally friendly oils and mineral oil were utilised to investigate the ageing *** samples were subjected to different ageing periods using a thermal accelerated ageing ***,the severity of the produced byproducts due to the oil degradation is examined based on several measured properties representing macroscopic and microscopic *** macroscopic category was evaluated through dielectric properties,including breakdown voltage,dielectric permittivity,and dissipation *** microscopic category,on the other hand,was assessed using techniques such as ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy and photoluminescence *** techniques enabled a deep understanding of the molecular-level changes occurring in the oil under ageing conditions,thereby getting new insights into oil ageing *** is worth mentioning that natural ester oil demonstrated the most favourable performance across various properties under ageing conditions.
Designing highly active electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)and oxygen evolution and reduction reactions(OER and ORR)is pivotal to renewable energy ***,based on density functional theory(DFT)calcu...
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Designing highly active electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction(HER)and oxygen evolution and reduction reactions(OER and ORR)is pivotal to renewable energy ***,based on density functional theory(DFT)calculations,we systematically investigate the catalytic activity of iron-nitrogen-carbon based covalent organic frameworks(COF)monolayers with axially coordinated ligands(denotes as Fe N_(4)-X@COF,X refers to axial ligand,X=-SCN,-I,-H,-SH,-NO_(2),-Br,-ClO,-Cl,-HCO_(3),-NO,-ClO_(2),-OH,-CN and-F).The calculated results demonstrate that all the catalysts possess good thermodynamic and electrochemical *** different ligands axially ligated to the Fe active center could induce changes in the charge of the Fe center,which further regulates the interaction strength between intermediates and catalysts that governs the catalytic ***,FeN_(4)-SH@COF and Fe N_(4)-OH@COF are efficient bifunctional catalysts for HER and OER,FeN_(4)-OH@COF and FeN_(4)-I@COF are promising bifunctional catalysts for OER and *** findings not only reveal promising bifunctional HER/OER and OER/ORR catalysts but also provide theoretical guidance for designing optimum ironnitrogen-carbon based catalysts.
Stacking nonpolar, monolayer materials has emerged as an effective strategy to harvest ferroelectricity in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials. At a particular stacking sequence, interlayer charge trans...
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Stacking nonpolar, monolayer materials has emerged as an effective strategy to harvest ferroelectricity in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials. At a particular stacking sequence, interlayer charge transfer allows for the generation of out-of-plane dipole components, and the polarization magnitude and direction can be altered by an interlayer sliding. In this work, we use ab initio calculations and demonstrate that in prototype sliding ferroelectrics rhombohedrally-stacked bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides MoS2, the out-of-plane electric polarization can be robustly tuned by photoexcitation in a large range for a given sliding. Such tuning is associated with both a structural origin—i.e., photoinduced structural distortion—and a charge origin, namely, the distribution of photoexcited carriers. We elucidate different roles that photoexcitation plays in modulating sliding ferroelectricity under different light intensities, and we highlight the pivotal role of light in manipulating polarization of 2D vdW materials.
Precipitate hardening is the most easiest and effective way to enhance strain recovery properties in NiTiHf high-temperature shape memory *** paper discusses the precipitation,coarsening and age hardening of H-phase p...
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Precipitate hardening is the most easiest and effective way to enhance strain recovery properties in NiTiHf high-temperature shape memory *** paper discusses the precipitation,coarsening and age hardening of H-phase precipitates in Ni_(50)Ti_(30)Hf_(20)alloy during isothermal aging at temperatures between 450℃and 650℃for time to 75 *** H-phase mean size and volume fraction were determined using transmission electron *** kinetics was analyzed using the Johnson-Mehl-Avrami-Kolmogorov equation and an Arrhenius type *** these analyses,a Time-Temperature-Transformation diagram was *** evolution of H-phase size suggests classical matrix diffusion limited Lifshitz-Slyozov-Wagner coarsening for all considered *** coarsening rate constants of H-phase precipitation have been determined using a modified coarsening rate equation for nondilute *** size of H-phase precipitates for breaking down the precipitate/matrix interface coherency was estimated through a combination of age hardening and precipitate size evolution ***,time-temperature-hardness diagram was constructed from the precipitation and coarsening kinetics and age hardening of H-phase precipitates in Ni_(50)Ti_(30)Hf_(20)alloy.
Electrolyte anions are critical for achieving high-voltage stable potassium-metal batteries(PMBs).However,the common anions cannot simultaneously prevent the formation of 'dead K' and the corrosion of Al curre...
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Electrolyte anions are critical for achieving high-voltage stable potassium-metal batteries(PMBs).However,the common anions cannot simultaneously prevent the formation of 'dead K' and the corrosion of Al current collector,resulting in poor cycling ***,we demonstrate cyclic anion of hexafluoropropane-1,3-disulfonimide-based electrolytes that can mitigate the 'dead K' and remarkably enhance the high-voltage stability of ***,even using low salt concentration(0.8 M) and additive-free carbonate-based electrolytes,the PMBs with a high-voltage polyanion cathode(4.4 V) also exhibit excellent cycling stability of 200 cycles with a good capacity retention of 83%.This noticeable electrochemical performance is due to the highly efficient passivation ability of the cyclic anions on both anode and cathode *** cyclic-anion-based electrolyte design strategy is also suitable for lithium and sodium-metal battery technologies.
Polyetheretherketone (PEEK) is a polymer widely used for artificial bone implants but exhibits a low affinity for bone tissue and lacks osteoconductivity and osseointegration. Because strontium (Sr) is known to enhanc...
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Atmospheric pressure plasma treatment on seeds has recently become a valuable technique to improve germination. This work treated Mesembryanthemum crystallinum (ice plant) seeds by the dielectric barrier discharge (DB...
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Using first principles–based effective Hamiltonian, electric field–controlled (reversible and repeatable) motion of spontaneously created topological charge particle across the thickness of a (001)-oriented epitaxia...
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Using first principles–based effective Hamiltonian, electric field–controlled (reversible and repeatable) motion of spontaneously created topological charge particle across the thickness of a (001)-oriented epitaxially strained BiFeO3 thin film is studied. It is shown that the electric field below a critical value moves this topological particle reversibly and gradually up and down across the film thickness, while the field higher than the critical value moves it from the bottom of the thin film straight to the top and back under alternating positive and negative fields. These field-controlled mobile topological charge particles are shown to be chiral and have topological charge corresponding to a meron. These electric-field-controlled meron motions can provide inspiration for the future of topological entity–based ferroelectric memory devices.
Vortex crystals are commonly observed in ultrathin ferroelectrics. However, a clear physical picture of origin of this topological state is currently lacking. Here, we show that vortex crystallization in ultrathin Pb(...
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Vortex crystals are commonly observed in ultrathin ferroelectrics. However, a clear physical picture of origin of this topological state is currently lacking. Here, we show that vortex crystallization in ultrathin Pb(Zr0.4,Ti0.6)O3 films stems from the softening of a phonon mode and can be described as a Z2×SU(1) symmetry-breaking transition. This result sheds light on the topology of the polar vortex patterns and bridges polar vortices with smectic phases, spin spirals, and other modulated states. Finally, we predict a resonant switching of the vortex tube orientation driven by midinfrared laser light which could enable new technologies.
A biological potassium channel is> 1000 times more permeable to K+than to Na+and exhibits a giant permeation rate of ~10~8 ions/*** is a great challenge to construct artificial potassium channels with such high s...
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A biological potassium channel is> 1000 times more permeable to K+than to Na+and exhibits a giant permeation rate of ~10~8 ions/*** is a great challenge to construct artificial potassium channels with such high sele ctivity and ion conduction ***,we unveil a long-overlo oked structural feature that underpins the ultra-high K+/Na+*** carrying out massive molecular dynamics simulation for ion transport through carbonyl-oxygen-modified bi-layer graphene nanopores,we find that the twisted carbonyl rings enable strict potassium selectivity with a dynamic K+/Na+selectivity ratio of 1295 and a K+conduction rate of 3.5 × 10~7 ions/s,approaching those of the biological ***,atomic trajectories of K+permeation events suggest a dual-ion transport mode,*** like-charged potassium ions are successively captured by the nanopores in the graphene bi-layer and are interconnected by sharing one or two interlayer water *** dual-ion behavior allows rapid release of the exiting potassium ion via a soft knock-on mechanism,which has previously been found only in biological ion *** a proof-of-concept utilization of this discovery,we propose a novel way for ionic power generation by mixing KCl and NaCl solutions through the bi-layer graphene nanopores,termed potassium-permselectivity enabled osmotic power generation(PoPee-OP G).Theoretically,the biomimetic device achieves a very high power density of> 1000 W/m2with graphene sheets of <1% *** study provides a blueprint for artificial potassium channels and thus paves the way toward next-generation electric-eel-mimetic ionic power generation.
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