Understanding cation (H+, Li+, Na+, Al3+, etc.) intercalation/de-intercalation chemistry in transition metal compounds is crucial for the design of cathode materials in aqueous electrochemical cells. Here we report that orthorhombic vanadium oxides (V2O5) supports highly reversible proton intercalation/de-intercalation reactions in aqueous media, enabling aluminum electrochemical cells with extended cycle life. Empirical analyses using vibrational and x-ray spectroscopy are complemented with theoretical analysis of the electrostatic potential to establish how and why protons intercalate in V2O5 in aqueous media. We show further that cathode coatings composed of cation selective membranes provide a straightforward method for enhancing cathode reversibility by preventing anion cross-over in aqueous electrolytes. Our work sheds light on the design of cation transport requirements for high-energy reversible cathodes in aqueous electrochemical cells. 相似文献
A spectrophotometric method for the hexafluoroarsenate anion is described. The determination involves selective extraction of the tris(1,10-phenanthroline)iron(II) salt of the anion into n-butyronitrile, followed by measurement of the absorbance of the organic layer. The extracts give good Beer's law plots over a wide range of concentrations and more than 98% of the hexafluoroarsenate is removed in a single extraction. Interference studies were made on a number of anions. 相似文献
The full Landau potential was determined for a
ferroelectric liquid crystal doped with varying concentrations of the chiral dopant R1011 and its enantiomer S1011. A multi-curve
fitting procedure using temperature and electric field dependent tilt angle and polarization data was employed to the generalized
Landau model of ferroelectric liquid
crystals. From this analysis the three Landau coefficients as well as the polarization-tilt coupling parameters were obtained
as a function of dopant concentration and configuration. It is shown that the two most varied
parameters are those of the first Landau coefficient α and the
(chiral) linear polarization-tilt coupling constant C. The effect on the
first Landau term is equivalent for the two dopants of opposite handedness
indicating its achiral nature, while the effect on the (chiral) bilinear
coupling term differs for the R1011 and S1011 dopant, increasing and
decreasing the coupling between tilt and polarization respectively. This
difference in the bilinear coupling term quantifiably evidences that the
R1011 dopant increases and S1011 dopant reduces the inherent chirality in
this system. 相似文献
Nonlinear relaxation dynamics of highly entangled solutions of high molecular weight 1,4-polybutadiene (PB) in a PB oligomer are studied in steady shear and step shear flows. Polymer entanglement densities vary in the range 14hN/Ne(J)⣴, allowing systematic investigation of entanglement effects on nonlinear rheological response. In agreement with previous steady shear studies using well entangled polystyrene solutions, a flow regime is found where both the steady-state shear stress and first normal stress difference remain constant or increase quite slowly with shear rate, leading to a plateau in the steady-state orientation angle. The magnitude of the average orientation angle in the plateau range is in accordance with predictions of a recent theory by Islam and Archer (2001). In step shear, the nonlinear relaxation modulus G(t,%) is approximately factorable into time-dependent G(t) and strain-dependent h(%) functions only at long times, t>5k, where 5k,O(Fd0). This finding is consistent with earlier observations for entangled polystyrene solutions; however the complex crossing pattern in G(t,%)h-1(%) that precede factorability in the latter materials is not observed. For all but the most entangled sample, apparent shear damping functions h (%,t)=(G(t,%))/(G(t)) immediately following imposition of shear are in nearly quantitative accord with the damping function hDEIA predicted by Doi-Edwards theory. 相似文献
We investigate the effect of temperature on structure and dynamics of a colloidal glass created by tethering polymers to the surface of inorganic nanoparticles. Contrary to the conventional assumption, an increase in temperature slows down glassy dynamics of the material, yet causes no change in its static structure factor. We show that these findings can be explained within the soft glassy rheology framework if the noise temperature X of the glass phase is correlated with thermodynamic temperature. 相似文献
A nonresonant, femtosecond (fs) laser is employed to desorb samples of Victoria blue deposited on stainless steel or indium tin oxide (ITO) slides using either electrospray deposition (ESD) or dried droplet deposition. The use of ESD resulted in uniform films of Victoria blue whereas the dried droplet method resulted in the formation of a ring pattern of the dye. Laser electrospray mass spectrometry (LEMS) measurements of the ESD-prepared films on either substrate were similar and revealed lower average relative standard deviations for measurements within-film (20.9%) and between-films (8.7%) in comparison to dried droplet (75.5% and 40.2%, respectively). The mass spectral response for ESD samples on both substrates was linear (R2?>?0.99), enabling quantitative measurements over the selected range of 7.0?×?10?11 to 2.8?×?10?9 mol, as opposed to the dried droplet samples where quantitation was not possible (R2?=?0.56). The limit of detection was measured to be 210 fmol.