Synthesis and characterization of Li1.05Co1/3Ni1/3Mn1/3O1.95X0.05 (X = Cl,Br) cathode materials for lithium-ion battery

In order to improve the thermal stability and dynamic performance of LiCo_1/3Ni_1/3Mn_1/3O₂ materials, Cl-doped and Br-doped materials were synthesized via the co-precipitation method. The morphology, structure, electrochemical performance and thermal stability were characterized by environment scanning electron microscopy (ESEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), charge–discharge cycling and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). Results show that all materials had a stable layered structure with α-NaFeO₂ and that Cl-doping slightly increased the size of grains. Both Cl-doping and Br-doping improved the high rate of discharge capacity, cycle-life performance and thermal stability, but Cl-doping was better than Br-doping in improving the material structure stability, dynamic performance and thermal stability.     

Electrochemical Aptasensor for Zearalenone Based on DNA Assembly and Exonuclease III as Amplification Strategy

A sensitively electrochemical aptasensor was developed to detect zearalenone, utilizing DNA assembly based on hybridization chain reaction to amplify the signal current and exonuclease III to reduce the background current. The linear range 5.0×10⁻⁵ ng/mL-50 ng/mL, and the limit of detection is 0.013 pg/mL. The fabricated aptasensor showed the high specificity toward aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), fumonisin B1 (FB1) and ochratoxin A (OTA), good repeatability and reproducibility. In addition, the average recoveries of spiked corn and beer samples were in the range of 89 % to 102 %. The established method is of great significance in the field of food safety detection.     

Enabling High‐Voltage Lithium Metal Batteries by Manipulating Solvation Structure in Ester Electrolyte

Lithium metal is an ideal electrode material for future rechargeable lithium metal batteries. However, the widespread deployment of metallic lithium anode is significantly hindered by its dendritic growth and low Coulombic efficiency, especially in ester solvents. Herein, by rationally manipulating the electrolyte solvation structure with a high donor number solvent, enhancement of the solubility of lithium nitrate in an ester‐based electrolyte is successfully demonstrated, which enables high‐voltage lithium metal batteries. Remarkably, the electrolyte with a high concentration of LiNO₃ additive presents an excellent Coulombic efficiency up to 98.8 % during stable galvanostatic lithium plating/stripping cycles. A full‐cell lithium metal battery with a lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide cathode exhibits a stable cycling performance showing limited capacity decay. This approach provides an effective electrolyte manipulation strategy to develop high‐voltage lithium metal batteries.     

我国典型电子垃圾拆解地持久性有毒化学污染物污染现状

电子垃圾拆解所引起的环境问题已经受到广泛关注,根据联合国环境规划署统计,全球约70%的电子垃圾通过各种途径进入我国,而我国自身也产生大量的电子垃圾。我国电子垃圾拆解活动采用的工艺较为原始,位于广东的贵屿和浙江的台州是我国最大的两个电子垃圾拆解地,拆解过程中电子垃圾本身含有和不当处置所产生的大量持久性有毒化学污染物(如重金属、二 NFDA1 英类、溴代阻燃剂等)释放到环境中,对拆解地生态系统及居民健康造成严重的威胁。本文重点针对我国电子垃圾拆解所造成的持久性有毒污染物(PTS)污染现状、管理措施和法规、拆解区居民所面临的持久性有毒污染物暴露健康风险及其相关研究最新进展进行了分析和概括,并对电子垃圾拆解区域持久性有毒污染物及新型环境污染物研究和发展方向作了展望。     

基于低通滤波的相位掩模干涉图相位解调方法

 传统的四步相移算法在分析相位掩模干涉图时存在相移值误差、分辨力降低和相干噪声等不足,从而影响了动态干涉仪的性能。为了提高相位掩模干涉图的分析精度,提出了一种基于低通滤波的相位解调方法。该方法根据相位掩模引入相位的空间频率远大于被测相位空间频率的最大值,采用低通滤波的方法提取相位信息。数值分析结果表明,该方法的精度高于传统四步相移算法。分析干涉图的信噪比,合理选择低通滤波器,可进一步提高相位解调的精度。     

Rigidity of complete manifolds with parallel Cotton tensor

The aim of this paper is to show some rigidity results for complete Riemannian manifolds with parallel Cotton tensor. In particular, we prove that any compact manifold of dimension \(n\ge 3\) with parallel Cotton tensor and positive constant scalar curvature is isometric to a finite quotient of \({\mathbb {S}}^n\) under a pointwise or integral pinching condition. Moreover, a rigidity theorem for stochastically complete manifolds with parallel Cotton tensor is also given. The proofs rely mainly on curvature elliptic estimates and the weak maximum principle.     

Do the O<Subscript>2</Subscript> Schumann–Runge Bands Participate in keV Collision-Induced Dissociation Experiments?

In high-energy (keV) CID experiments, oxygen has the unique ability to enhance specific ion fragmentation pathways that lie within a relatively narrow band of activation energy. It has been previously proposed that this oxygen-enhanced dissociation phenomenon is due to the participation of the O₂  B ³S_u ⁺ - X ³S_g ^- {{\hbox{O}}_{{2}}}\;{\hbox{B}}{\,^{{3}}}{\Sigma_{\rm{u}}}^{ + } - {\hbox{X}}{\,^{{3}}}{\Sigma_{\rm{g}}}^{ - } (Schumann–Runge) system in the collision complex. During the collision, oxygen is first excited to its B ³S_u ⁺ {\hbox{B}}{\,^{{3}}}{\Sigma_{\rm{u}}}^{ + } state before it returns this energy to the projectile ion. This energy drives the nonstatistical dissociation of the projectile provided there is an energetically accessible pathway in resonance with the absorbed radiation. To probe the validity of this hypothesis, a modified VG-ZAB mass spectrometer was used to observe the photon emissions from keV collisions of a selection of projectile ions with O₂ target gas. By studying the resulting collision-induced emission (CIE) spectra, a second potential mechanism came to light, one that involves the near-isoenergetic O₂ ^+. A ²Π_u→X ² Π_g state transition.     

Evolution of orientation degree, lattice dynamics and electronic band structure properties in nanocrystalline lanthanum-doped bismuth titanate ferroelectric films by chemical solution deposition

Ferroelectric lanthanum (La)-substituted bismuth titanate (Bi(4-x)La(x)Ti(3)O(12), BLT) nanocrystalline films with the composition range of 0 ≤x≤ 1 have been directly deposited on n-type Si?(100) substrates by chemical solution deposition. The La substitution effects on the preferred orientation, surface morphology, phonon modes, emission bands and electronic band structures of the BLT films have been investigated by microscopy, Raman scattering, photoluminescence and spectroscopic ellipsometry at room temperature. X-Ray diffraction analysis shows that the films are polycrystalline and exhibit the pure perovskite phase structure. With increasing La composition, the (100)-orientation degree can be enhanced and the root-mean-square roughnesses slightly increase from 6.5 to 8.3 nm. It was found that the Raman-active mode A(1g)[Bi] at about 59 cm(-1) is unchanged while the B(1g) and A(1g)[Ti] phonon modes at about 648 and 853 cm(-1) are shifted towards higher frequency by about 36.6 and 8.4 cm(-1), respectively. Photoluminescence spectra show that the intensity of the peak located at about 2.3 eV increases with the La composition, except for the Bi(3)LaTi(3)O(12) film, due to the smallest grain size and oxygen vacancy defects. The optical constants of the BLT films have been uniquely extracted by fitting the measured ellipsometric spectra with a four-phase layered model (air/surface rough layer/BLT/Si) in the photon energy range of 0.73-4.77 eV. The Adachi dielectric function model has been successfully applied and reasonably describes the optical response behavior of the ferroelectric BLT films. Moreover, the film packing density decreases while the optical band gap linearly increases from 3.610 ± 0.066 to 3.758 ± 0.068 eV with increasing La composition. It is surmised that the phenomena are mainly ascribed to the variations of the electronic structure, especially for the conduction band, which is perturbed by the La doping.