Sentences with phrase «acts as an electrode»

These act as electrodes and additionally are coated with catalysts.

The tandem device also requires a window layer on top, which acts as an electrode, but limits the amount of light passing through.

Now, researchers at DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Chicago obtained the first 3 - D view of the atomic structure at the interface of water and the mineral hematite while the hematite is acting as an electrode.

It features two thin sheets of lithium alloys which act as electrodes sandwiched around a layer of porous polymer soaked in a liquid electrolyte.

Not exact matches

«The open - pore electrode is also free of binding agents that act as insulators and diminish performance.»

The resulting cluster of nanotubes, fused to two palladium electrodes, acted as a transistor (Nano Letters, DOI: 10.1021 / nl050405n).

Team members sprayed carbon nanotubes onto a plastic film — two such films act as both the device's electrodes and charge collectors.

The patented method involves placing the electrode of the device close to the skin, with the skin itself acting as the second electrode.

One group had tDCS during the training sessions, while the other group acted as a control: they were fitted with electrodes but did not receive tDCS.

The resulting cluster of nanotubes, fused to two palladium electrodes, acted as a transistor.

The liquefied salt acts as a source of lithium ions that conduct through the electrolyte to the electrodes.

In a semi-transparent solar cell module as shown in the photograph, electrodes with two variants of the polymer PEDOT: PSS (commonly used in organic electronics) are used, where one acts as the anode and the other is modified to become the cathode.

When the electrodes and the active layer are printed as thin films on top of each other, defects in one layer will act as points of attack for the next layer to be printed.

The device developed at UCLA has a third electrode that acts as both a supercapacitor, which stores energy, and as a device for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, a process called water electrolysis.

When those metals come into contact with sweat, saline or even fluid discharges from wounds, silver acts as the positive electrode and zinc serves as the negative electrode — and electricity flows between them.

Creating a voltage between them allowed current to flow between the two perpendicular electrodes — separated from each other by just 20 nanometres, through the single phosphorus atom, which acted as a transistor.

They patterned the indium arsenide wires over other even smaller metal wires that act as gate electrodes, which control the energy levels in the dots.

This complex layer quickly forms from the decomposition products in the battery's electrolyte, the substance in batteries that acts as a medium to conduct lithium ions between electrodes.

A heart - on - a-chip being developed in the lab of Gordana Vunjak - Novakovic, professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, incorporates electrodes that act like mini pacemakers to «shock» the cells into beating, just as they would in a real heart.

To make these batteries more stable, researchers have traditionally worked to develop protective coatings for their electrodes, and to develop new polymer binders that act as the glue holding battery components together.

The coating is a nickel oxide film that prevents rusts building - up on the semiconductor electrodes (silicon or gallium arsenide), while also acting as a highly reactive catalysis.

In most cases, what you get for your money is a box with three or four 9 volt batteries connected in series with a switch to turn it on, a light bulb in the circuit which will light up if the terminals are accidentally touched together (it acts as a fuse which won't blow in case of a short circuit), a couple of leads with clips and two silver electrodes which in most cases are small gauge silver wires.

Micron also acts as a distributor of metal snap fasteners (snaps), another component used in the manufacture of disposable electrodes.