Critical assessment of thermodynamic properties of perovskite-type cesium lead chloride CsPbCl3

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The results of thermochemical study of the CsPbCl3 formation thermodynamics available in literature were critically evaluated by comparison with those...     

Present-Day Practice of Non-Target Chemical Analysis

Journal of Analytical Chemistry - We review the main techniques, procedures, and information products used in non-target analysis (NTA) to reveal the composition of substances. Sampling and sample...     

Mathematical Model of FeCl3 and HCl Extraction in the FeCl3–HCl–H2O–Undecan-1-ol System

Russian Journal of General Chemistry - The extraction equilibria in undecan-1-ol–HCl (2.5–9.45 M) systems in the absence and in the presence of 0.55 M FeCl3 were studied. The...     

Evolutionary Development and Structural Diversity of Natural Antimicrobial Peptides,Peptidometics, and Cationic Amphiphiles Based on Amino Acids

Russian Journal of General Chemistry - The review article traces the main trends of the synthetic approach to the solution of the problem of overcoming the resistance of pathogenic bacterial...     

Anisotropy of Microhardness and Fracture of Langasite Crystal and Its Structural Basis

Crystallography Reports - The anisotropy of microhardness and fracture of the (0001) basal plane of langasite crystal has been studied using Berkovich indentation under a load of 100 g at different...     

On the Local Stress Fields in Inhomogeneous Media Determined by the Acoustic Emission Method

Physics of the Solid State - Local internal stresses in two natural inhomogeneous materials differing in the structure have been calculated using analysis of pauses between acoustic emission...     

Non-crossing monotone paths and binary trees in edge-ordered complete geometric graphs

Acta Mathematica Hungarica - This paper is devoted to the studying of the weak Orlicz–Lorentz space $$\Lambda_X^{\varphi, \infty}(w)$$ , which can be regarded as an extension of weak Orlicz...     

Some Problems of Nonlinear Dynamics of Turbulent Thermals

Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics - A well-known simplified model of turbulent convection from local sources of buoyancy and/or momentum acting for a short time has been developed and...     

Insights into MWCNTs/polyimide nanocomposites: from synthesis to application as free-standing flexible electrodes in low-cost micro-supercapacitors

In the pursuit to enlarge the library of polyimide materials for energy applications, new polyimide/MWCNTs composite films have been developed by MWCNTs-assisted polycondensation reaction of a hydroxyl and triphenylmethane-containing diamine with benzophenone tetracarboxylic dianhydride targeting to highlight their electrical storage capability as flexible electrodes in micro-supercapacitors (mSCs). The Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, proton nuclear magnetic resonance, UV–vis, fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopies were used to demonstrate the evolution of interfacial interactions between MWCNTs and the precursors (diamine monomer and intermediate polyamidic acid) and polyimide matrix that proved to be the origin of MWCNTs homogeneous dispersion. Thus, composite films incorporating 1, 3, 5, and 10 w.t.% MWCNTs were obtained and thoroughly investigated with regard to their morphology, mechanical behavior, thermal stability, and electrical conductivity. The electrochemical performance of these composites was first analyzed in a classical three-electrode cell by cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic charge-discharge in both aqueous and organic electrolyte systems. By far, the best electrical storage capacity was obtained with the composite polyimide film containing 10% MWCNTs that was further used as both active material and current collector in a flexible symmetric mSC realized by a straightforward and low-cost procedure. In the attempt to better exploit the advantages of this composite film, it was layered with a graphite-containing paint and tested as an electrode in a flexible mSC, which provided satisfactory results. To our knowledge, this is the first report on the electrical charge storage capability of a polyimide/MWCNTs free-standing film as a flexible electrode in mSCs, which do not require time- and resource-consuming processing steps.