Sentences with phrase «from electrochemical»

The information on how hydrogen diffuses in metals is usually obtained from electrochemical measurements of the rate of hydrogen permeation through a sample being usually a membrane separating two independent electrolytic cells.

Or perhaps our biology is not the only way to construct living things; perhaps the notion that consciousness and intelligence arise from the electrochemical gunk of our brain does not apply to minds elsewhere in the universe.

Since no neurologist has, so far as I know, been able to derive even the simplest of sensations from the electrochemical processes of the nervous system, I must, in some way, posit that the physical is also the psychical.

Not exact matches

But the electric system remains Edison's grandest achievement: an affordable and reliable supply of electricity has opened doors to great second - order innovations ranging from medical diagnostic devices to refrigerators, from massive electrochemical industries to tiny computers governed by microchips.

Sure, we've had some hearts stop for some amazing lengths of time and been able to revive people before they go completely brain dead and there are many claim from people about their NDE's but I do not believe they are seeing anything more than a few screens of our brains operating system reboot sequence since we are but electrochemical biomechanical machines.

Levels of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) found in the cord serum of newborns from a population located in the vicinity of an electrochemical factory in Spain were among the highest ever reported.

By mixing DNA with an electrochemiluminescent (ECL) agent, a mixture that lights up after electrochemical reactions take place, and exposing it to extracts from cigarette smoke and e-cigarette vapor, the chemists were able to spot DNA damage.

«We demonstrated for the first time that ceramics could help advance thermophotovoltaics as well other areas of research, including energy harvesting from waste heat, high - temperature catalysis and electrochemical energy storage.»

The most likely scenario, Shatz believed, was that the molecules sat on a neuron's postsynaptic terminals, where electrochemical signals from other neurons are received.

Currently, the most efficient catalysts for the electrochemical reaction that generates hydrogen from water are based on platinum, which is scarce and expensive.

Under House's proposal, hydrochloric acid would be harvested from the ocean by a specialized electrochemical treatment and then exposed to silicates, resulting in a net alkalizing shift.

Here we report an iridium oxide / strontium iridium oxide (IrOx / SrIrO3) catalyst formed during electrochemical testing by strontium leaching from surface layers of thin films of SrIrO3.

As such, this new synthetic route to oxide nanoparticles also shows great promise for a multitude of other catalytic, electrical, magnetic, or electrochemical processes, from novel cathodes to solution preparation of other types of ceramic materials.

«Hydrogen (H2) produced from water splitting by an electrochemical process, called water electrolysis, has been considered to be a clean and sustainable energy resource to replace fossil fuels and meet the rising global energy demand, since water is both the sole starting material and byproduct when clean energy is produced by converting H2 back to water,» the researchers wrote.

A paper - based device that mimics the electrochemical signalling in the human brain has been created by a group of researchers from China.

In 1991 Aomar Halimaoui at France's National Telecommunications Research Centre in Grenoble and collaborators from Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble began to suspect that the flash of red - orange light he had noticed in earlier studies of the electrochemical oxidation of porous silicon by hydrochloric acid was a form of electroluminescence.

From there, they flow to the platinum cathode, which needs electrons to carry out its own electrochemical reactions.

Thereby, bioelectrorefineries integrate biomass conversion processes and equipment to produce fuels, power, and chemicals from biomass, and are based on the combination of microbial and electrochemical conversions,» Harnisch says.

Production of drop - in fuel from biomass and electric energy by combined microbial and electrochemical conversion.»

The products from the continuous microbial conversion can be quickly converted to a real fuel with the intermittent and much faster electrochemical conversion.

Kehr, J.; Hu, X.J.; Yoshitake, T.; Scheller, D. Determination of the dopamine agonist rotigotine in microdialysates from the rat brain by microbore column liquid chromatography with electrochemical detection.

Unique research tools and imaging expertise from researchers in EMSL, DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at PNNL, will help the team understand complex electrochemical reactions as they occur within working batteries, as well as determine why batteries ultimately fail.

Results: In an unprecedented find, a research team including scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory discovered that the three electronic and electrochemical properties having to do with the energy necessary for electrons and molecules to assemble or break apart are not always correlated.

Reaction mechanisms for the electrochemical reduction of CO2 on the Cu (100) surface from quantum mechanics free energy calculations with explicit water.

Departing from studies of organometallics, he began studying the role of size, composition and morphology on the electrochemical activity of complex alloy nanoparticles for fuel cell cathodes and developed new instrumental capabilities for his work.

«From that we can get important information about their electrochemical and optical properties,» said postdoctoral researcher and co-author Sean Collins.

Chemical phase map showing how the electrochemical discharge of iron fluoride microwires proceeded from 0 percent discharge (left), to 50 percent (middle), to 95 percent.

In a move that could improve the energy storage of everything from portable electronics to electric microgrids, University of Wisconsin — Madison and Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers have developed a novel X-ray imaging technique to visualize and study the electrochemical reactions in lithium - ion rechargeable batteries containing a new type of material, iron fluoride.

Membranes are useful in a wide variety of separations, including water purification and desalination, removal of greenhouse gases from industrial emissions, and prevention of product crossover in electrochemical cells.

Here, the results from physical, spectroscopic, metallographic, electrochemical tests are used to aid in the further development of a given technology.

Funding from Grand Challenges Canada will allow her to develop an electrochemical diagnostic device made of paper and tape.

We are electrochemists, material scientists, and engineers with cutting - edge expertise in the field of CO ₂ electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design, scouted from the best programs in the world.

Alkaline water also acts as a conductor of electrochemical activity from cell to cell.

Tina Casey at sister site Cleantechnica has come across a different approach to harnessing the waste from food processing: harnessing the electrochemical properties of apple peels for a sodium - ion battery.

Komhyr, W.D., B.J. Connor, I.S. Mcdermid, T.J. McGee, A.D. Parrish, J.J. Margitan, Comparison of STOIC 1989 ground - based lidar, microwave spectrometer, and Dobson spectrophotometer Umkehr ozone profiles with ozone profiles from balloon - borne electrochemical concentration cell ozonesondes, J. Geophys.

Back in the US, scientists took a closer look at electrochemical bacteria, and foresaw the tantalising possibility of a new kind of hydropower: electric current from septic waste treatment.

Fuel cell - A fuel cell generates electricity in a direct and continuous way from the controlled electrochemical reaction of hydrogen or another fuel and oxygen.

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. began building a three - story, 40,000 - square - foot facility that will be devoted to researching and developing transportation fuels from sunlight using photovoltaic and electrochemical solar energy systems, according to a company news release.

EEStor's ambitious goal, according to patent documents, is to «replace the electrochemical battery» in almost every application, from hybrid - electric and pure - electric vehicles to laptop computers to utility - scale electricity storage.

[1] Hydrogen internal combustion engine vehicles are different from hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (which use electrochemical conversion of hydrogen rather than combustion); the hydrogen internal combustion engine is simply a modified version of the traditional gasoline - powered internal combustion engine.

Each need originates from nerve - based circuits in the brain that connect electrochemical signals, meaning nerve cells transmit messages to each other until specific parts of your body receive the information needed to perform the behavior to get your need met.