Phosphoric-Acid Retention in High-Temperature Proton-Exchange Membranes

Great efforts have been conducted to develop high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell (HT-PEMFC) due to its features of enhanced electrocatalyst reactivity, simplified hydrothermal management system and high CO tolerance of catalysts, and remarkable progress has been achieved. However, the easy leaching of phosphoric acid (PA) from the membranes during operation limits its commercial scale-up in complicated environments. This concept here mainly focuses on the recent developments for mitigation of PA loss in PEMs. The probable mechanisms of PA loss are proposed. The approaches to improve PA retention for example via introduction of phosphonic acid by covalent bond, using ion-pairs interaction and siphoning effect, and blending with inorganic nanoparticles are described in detail. Among these strategies, the siphoning effect from the intrinsic microporous PEMs is the most efficient and enables the cell to operate flexibly within a broad temperature range. Therefore, this concept may provide new ideas for the scientists to retain PA, to improve the cell performance and expand the potential applications of PA doped PEMs at elevated humidity and wide temperature range.     

General Decay for a Thermoelastic Problem of a Microbeam with Gurtin-Pipkin Thermal Law

In this paper, we study the well-posedness and the asymptotic stability of a one-dimensional thermoelastic microbeam system, where the heat conduction is given by Gurtin-Pipkin thermal law. We first establish the well-posedness of the system by using the semigroup arguments and Lumer-Phillips theorem. We then obtain an explicit and general formula for the energy decay rates through perturbed energy method and some properties of the convex functions.     

Circular regular dessins

Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics - A dessin is called circular if the boundary of each face is a circuit (a simple cycle). In this paper, we address the problem of characterizing edge-transitive...     

An elementary proof for the representation theorem of analytic isotropic tensor functions of a second-order tensor

正following Cayley-Hamilton theorem:(1)where I1, I2, and I3denote the first, second, and third principal invariants of and N-dimensional space,(2)     

Electric potential and energy band in ZnO nanofiber tuned by local mechanical loading

Recent success in strain engineering has triggered tremendous interest in its study and potential applications in nanodevice design. In this paper, we establish a coupled piezoelectric/semiconducting model for a wurtzite structure ZnO nanofiber under the local mechanical loading. The energy band structure tuned by the local mechanical loading and local length is calculated via an eight-band k·p method, which includes the coupling of valance and conduction bands. Poisson's effect on the distribution of electric potential inversely depends on the local mechanical loading. Numerical results reveal that both the applied local mechanical loading and the local length exhibit obvious tuning effects on the electric potential and energy band. The band gap at band edges varies linearly with the applied loading. Changing the local length shifts the energy band which is far away from the band edges. This study will be useful in the electronic and optical enhancement of semiconductor devices.     

Nonlinear vibration response of a complex aeroengine under the rubbing fault

Nonlinear Dynamics - Rolling bearing and squeeze film damper will introduce structural nonlinearity into the dynamic model of aeroengine. Rubbing will occur due to the clearance reduction design of...     

On the split common fixed point problem for strict quasi-ϕ-pseudocontractive mappings in Banach spaces

Numerical Algorithms - The purpose of this paper is to propose an algorithm for solving the split common fixed point problem for strict quasi-?-pseudocontractive mappings in Banach spaces. It...     

关于两个图的一类新连接图的谱

给定2个图G1和G2，设G1的边集E(G1)={e1,e2,?,em1}，则图G1⊙G2可由一个G1，m1个G2通过在G1对应的每条边外加一个孤立点，新增加的点记为U={u1,u2,?,um1}，将ui分别与第i个G2的所有点以及G1中的边ei的端点相连得到，其中i=?1,2,?,m1。得到：（i）当G1是正则图，G2是正则图或完全二部图时，确定了G1⊙G2的邻接谱（A-谱）。（ii）当G1是正则图，G2是任意图时，给出了G1⊙G2的拉普拉斯谱（L-谱）。（iii）当G1和G2都是正则图时，给出了G1⊙G2的无符号拉普拉斯谱（Q-谱）。作为以上结论的应用，构建了无限多对A-同谱图、L-同谱图和Q-同谱图；同时当G1是正则图时，确定了G1⊙G2支撑树的数量和Kirchhoff指数。