Sentences with phrase «in electrochemical»

Because really, why would you landfill your vacuum - packed poop or nuke it in an electrochemical reactor when It can heat your house?

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.

In a broader sense, the new simulation capability represents the first step toward a unified method for the simulation of realistic, heterogeneous interfaces in electrochemical systems.

Why It Matters: The solid - liquid interface is the most common interface in electrochemical systems.

Our analysis reveals interesting trends in the electrochemical stability of TMOs containing elements which have not traditionally been explored for photocatalysts.

In batteries, as in any electrochemical device, critical processes happen where the electrolyte and active material meet at the solid electrode.

Other chemists favor a more traditional approach that would carry out similar reactions, but near room temperature in electrochemical cells that need electricity and special catalysts.

The role of intramolecular association in the electrochemical reduction of viologen dimers and trimers.

The researchers offered possible electrochemical processes that might explain the heat, including irregularities in the electrochemical cell, possible unknown exothermic chemical reactions, or the recombination of split - apart hydrogen and oxygen atoms of water.

It shows that in all electrochemical activities in which oxygen is involved — and this is usually the case in battery chemistry — singlet oxygen can be of importance.

NREL Scientist Chunmei Ban spends a lot of time in the electrochemical storage lab for her work improving lithium - ion batteries through the use of nanomaterials.

The reactions in the electrochemical prototype cell were extremely complicated and could only be understood now at HZB.

The SECM uses a flat - faced probe a few micrometres across, which forms one electrode in an electrochemical cell.

Even the smallest changes in the ratio between iron and nickel by varying the synthesis conditions or the ageing of the material considerably changed the activity in the electrochemical hydrogen formation.

The drawback, according to Wang, is that these nanostructures can be fragile, difficult to make reproducibly when scaled - up and poor in electrochemical stability, limiting their applicability.

Not exact matches

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.

Those jolts are electrochemical responses in your synapses that are caused by levels of things like seratonin, oxytocin, endorphins, and the like.

I believe we are electrochemical machines interacting with other ones and the environment, with perhaps a pinch of quantum behavior thrown in.

If one proposes to take science even a little seriously, some «percipient events» must involve «external» electromagnetic and electrochemical occurrences that elicit coordinated processings in multitudes of interconnected and interacting «internal» cells.

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.

«Super-strong graphene oxide: In situ bandgap tuning of graphene oxide achieved by electrochemical bias.»

The UMD and UMB team, led by research associate Eunkyoung Kim, used a discovery - driven approach based on the assumptions that chemical biomarkers relating to oxidative stress could be found in blood, and that they could be measured by common electrochemical instruments.

To find catalytic material suitable for both electrodes, the Stanford team borrowed a technique used in battery research called lithium - induced electrochemical tuning.

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.

«The electrochemical properties of the carbonized fungal biomass - mineral composite were tested in a supercapacitor and a lithium - ion battery, and it [the composite] was found to have excellent electrochemical properties.

The investigators ran a series of standard electrochemical tests on the porous microspheres to quantify their potential for use in electronic devices.

In solution, the salt dissociates into silver cations, allowing production of silver metal deposits by electrochemical reduction reaction using solvated secondary electrons rather direct molecular decomposition.

This is an artistic rendering of a carbonized fungal biomass - manganese oxide mineral composite (MycMnOx / C) can be applied as a novel electrochemical material in energy storage devices

An important factor in creating photo - electrochemical fuel cells is the precise arrangement of the individual components.

As batteries are used and charged, the electrochemical reaction results in the movement of ions between the two electrodes of a battery, which is the essence of an electrical current.

In it, they describe a process by which nanodiamonds — tiny diamond particles 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a hair — curtail the electrochemical deposition, called plating, that can lead to hazardous short - circuiting of lithium ion batteries.

When it gets cold, the ester - based conventional electrolytes that lithium - ion batteries often use become sluggish conductors and the electrochemical reactions that occur at the interface of the electrolyte and the electrode struggle to continue — meaning that lithium - ion batteries don't hold up too well in ultra-chilly climates.

«After circulatory arrest, spreading depolarization marks the loss of stored electrochemical energy in brain cells and the onset of toxic processes that eventually lead to death.

It may be that what we call our self, or the «I» in our perception of self, is made not of patterns of electrochemical synaptic logic (neurons chattering) but rather the aggregate experience of the mass of glial cells, each one contributing its particle of consciousness to the whole.

USC professor Sri Narayan's research focuses on the fundamental and applied aspects of electrochemical energy conversion and storage to reduce the carbon footprint of energy use and by providing energy alternatives to fossil fuel, Wednesday, June 10, 2014 in Los Angeles.

Searching for a better way to isolate metal titanium, a team led by materials chemists George Zheng Chen and Derek Fray of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom came up with an electrochemical technique, they report in the 21 September issue of Nature.

Their specially designed «liquid electrochemical STXM nanoimaging platform» uses the facility's soft X-rays to image lithium iron phosphate particles as they charge (delithiate) and discharge (lithiate) in a liquid electrolyte.

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.

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.

«We envision that the high electrochemical and catalytic performance of this material will play a major role in the commercialization of metal - air batteries,» says Professor Kim.

The catalysts in the air cathode aids the electrochemical reaction of the cell with oxygen gas.

Some scientists think the secret is in short electrochemical pulses exchanged between neurons — the language of the brain.

One group turned to an electrochemical approach, which can be adapted for in - the - field use, but their technique involved toxic mercury as the electrode.

Afyon currently works as a project leader in a research consortium led by Jennifer Rupp, professor of electrochemical materials, focused on developing an innovative solid - state battery.

They have built a scanning electrochemical microscope (SECM) to map the tiny holes in dentine, the tissue that lies beneath the outer enamel of the tooth.

«Our experimental setup consists of a paper device with eight electrochemical biosensors — for handy, one - time, disposable use — and a custom - made, handheld electrochemical reader, or potentiostat, to keep costs as low as possible,» explained Xinyu Liu, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University.

Now researchers in the Laboratoire d'analyse et d'architecture des systèmes (LAAS - CNRS) 1 in Toulouse and the INRS2 in Quebec have developed an electrode material that means electrochemical capacitors produce results similar to batteries, yet retain their particular advantages.

By systematically varying the ratio of lithium to a transition metal, like trying different amounts of ingredients in a new cookie recipe, the research team was able to study the relationship between the surface and interior structure and to measure the electrochemical performance of the material.

In prior achievements, these scientists invented a new class of water - based electrolytes that can work under extreme electrochemical conditions that ordinary water can not, and have successfully applied it on different lithium - ion chemistries.

Lithium (Li) metal electrodes are not deployable in rechargeable batteries because electrochemical plating and stripping invariably leads to growth of dendrites that reduce coulombic efficiency and eventually short the battery.