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To form a layer separating two volumes of aqueous solution, there is used an apparatus comprising elements defining a chamber, the elements including a body of non-conductive material having formed therein at least one recess opening into the chamber, the recess containing an electrode. A pre-treatment coating of a hydrophobic fluid is applied to the body across the recess. Aqueous solution, having amphiphilic molecules added thereto, is flowed across the body to cover the recess so that aqueous solution is introduced into the recess from the chamber and a layer of the amphiphilic molecules forms across the recess separating a volume of aqueous solution introduced into the recess from the remaining volume of aqueous solution.

A rechargeable battery or cell is disclosed in which the electrode active material consists of at least one nonmetallic compound or salt of the electropositive species on which the cell is based, and the electrolyte or electrolyte solvent consists predominantly of a halogen-bearing or chalcogen-bearing covalent compound such as SOCl2 or SO2Cl2. Also disclosed are cell component materials which include electrodes that consist primarily of salts of the cell electropositive species and chemically compatible electrolytes. These latter electrolytes include several newly discovered ambient temperature molten salt systems based on the AlCl3-PCl5 binary and the AlCl3-PCl5-PCl3 ternaries.

The present invention relates generally to medical devices; in particular and without limitation, to unique electrodes and/or electrical lead assemblies for stimulating cardiac tissue, muscle tissue, neurological tissue, brain tissue and/or organ tissue; to electrophysiology mapping and ablation catheters for monitoring and selectively altering physiologic conduction pathways; and, wherein said electrodes, lead assemblies and catheters optionally include fluid irrigation conduit(s) for providing therapeutic and/or performance enhancing materials to adjacent biological tissue, and wherein each said device is coupled to or incorporates nanostructure or materials therein. The present invention also provides methods for fabricating, deploying, and operating such medical devices.

An improved non-aqueous electrolyte cell according to this invention includes a negative electrode which is a composite sintered body of a carbonaceous sintered material retained on an expanded metal mesh collector. The expanded metal mesh has a sheet thickness T, a mesh long width center distance LW, a mesh short width center distance SW, a mesh long width maximum opening, a; and a mesh short width maximum opening, b, all carefully specified to obey predetermined conditions in order to provide improved secondary cells having high energy density. The expanded metal mesh collector has a specified configuration to prevent carbon layer cracking and/or separation of the carbon layer, caused by shrinkage of the carbon layer on sintering or by expansion/shrinkage of the carbon layer during charging and discharging, to secure stable cell characteristics.

A positive active material including a compound expressed by a general formula Li_mM_xM′_yM″_zO₂ (here, M designates at least one kind of element selected from Co, Ni and Mn, M′ designates at least one kind of element selected from Al, Cr, V, Fe, Cu, Zn, Sn, Ti, Mg, Sr, B, Ga, In, Si and Ge, and M″ designates at least one kind of element selected from Mg, Ca, B and Ga. Further, x is designated by an expression of 0.9≦x<1, y is indicated by an expression of 0.001≦y≦0.5, z is indicated by an expression of 0≦z≦0.5, and m is indicated by an expression of 0.5≦m) and lithium manganese oxide expressed by a general formula Li_sMn_2-tMa_tO₄ (here, the value of s is expressed by 0.9≦s, the value of t is located within a range expressed by 0.01≦t≦0.5, and Ma indicates one or a plurality of elements between Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Al, Sn, Cr, V, Ti, Mg, Ca, Sr, B, Ga, In, Si and Ge) are included, so that both a large capacity and the suppression of the rise of temperature of a battery upon overcharging operation are achieved.

To use a catalyst material, which has a functional group that covalently binds to a catalyst metal particle on the surface of a catalyst carrier, and a catalyst metal particle that covalently binds to the functional group, for a fuel cell.

The process of preparing active carbon with great specific surface area includes the steps of stoving and crushing petroleum coke as material, mixing with KOH in certain ratio, heating and maintaining temperature in no-oxygen environment, cooling and washing with deionized water to neutrality. The process of making one kind of super capacitor includes mixing the active carbon powder possessing great specific surface area with adhesive, conducting graphite powder and dispersant in certain proportion, painting the mixture to foamed nickel, stoving, rolling into electrode sheets, adding diaphragm of modified non-woven fabric between adjacent electrode sheets, connected electrode sheets in parallel and setting inside a casing, and filling with electrolyte. The active carbon of the present invention has specific surface area as high as 2000-3000 sq m/g and medium pore rate not lower than 50 %, and is used as material for super capacitor with high performance/cost ratio and other advantages.

The durability of a fuel cell having a polymer electrolyte membrane with an anode on one surface and an oxygen-reducing cathode on the other surface is improved by substituting electrically conductive titanium carbide or titanium nitride particles for carbon particles as oxygen-reducing and hydrogen-oxidizing catalyst supports. For example nanosize platinum particles deposited on nanosize titanium carbide or titanium nitride support particles provide good oxygen reduction capability and are corrosion resistant in an acid environment. It is preferred that the catalyst-on-titanium carbide (nitride) particles be mixed with non-catalyst-bearing carbon in the electrode material for improved electrode performance,

An activated ferroelectrode characterizes in mixing an Al-Sn-Ga alloy in it among which, Al is 0-10% of its weight, Sn is 0.2%-5% and Ga is 0.01%-0.75%. Advantages: 1. The ferroelectrode can be activated not adding harmful heavy metals (Hg, Cd and Pb etc.) and has long circulation life, 2. it can discharge large current and is not passivated, 3. High potential, 4. High usability of the active material is used to make high-energy batteries, 5. Self-discharge is suppressed to reduce 30% per month, one time lower than of traditional ones, 6. Simple process technology at low cost. Al addition not only increases surface of its ratio, but also suppresses the self discharge.

The present invention relates to a method for cleaning material surface of organic substance, dust and steam pollution by utilizing microwave to produce UV-ray/ozone or oxygen plasma. Said method is suitable for cleaning surface of insulator and semiconductor material, specially is suitable for cleaning surface of conductive glass. Said invention can utilize general microwave and make it into theequipment capable of producing microwave ozone/oxygen plasma treatment. Said equipment also can be used for making disinfection and removing organic abnormal smell, etc.

The invention belongs to the technical field of photoelectron and particularly relates to an organic electroluminescence device for reducing patterning graphene electrodes based on laser and a manufacturing method for the organic electroluminescence device. The organic electroluminescence device consists of a substrate, a gold electrode, the micron-dimension patterning graphene electrodes, an organic function layer and a cathode in sequence, wherein the gold electrode serves as an extraction electrode and is in a channel structure, the micron-dimension patterning graphene electrodes are lapped on the gold electrode at the two sides of each channel, and the micron-dimension patterning graphene electrodes are prepared by a laser write-through machining system capable of realizing laser point-by-point scanning. The obtained graphene electrodes are lower in the surface roughness and smoother in the surface, and therefore, the bottom-emission organic electroluminescence device prepared by the electrodes are higher in the degree of light-emitting homogeneity. The organic electroluminescence device and the manufacturing method break through the conventional concept for manufacturing the original large-area devices, the areas of the electrodes are reduced to the micron dimension, and patterns are led into the electrodes, so that the light-emitting area of the device is in a miniaturized pattern structure, thereby combining the organic electroluminescence device and the laser micro-nanomachining skillfully.

The invention provides an air cathode. The air cathode comprises a catalyst layer containing nitrogen-doped graphene, and a diffusion layer. The nitrogen-doped graphene provides a catalyst layer with good catalysis performances for the air cathode. The air cathode can be prepared by simple and convenient processes. The catalyst layer can be roll-molded without a binder so that electrode performances of the air cathode can be improved.

A conductive additive for the positive nickel electrode for electrochemical cells which provides increased performance by suppressing an oxygen evolution reaction occurring parallel to the oxidation of nickel hydroxide, increasing conductivity of the electrode and/or consuming oxygen produced as a result of the oxygen evolution reaction.

The invention discloses an electrochemical industrial titanium anode with oxide seed layer, which is characterized by the following: depositing to cover oxide seed layer on the titanium base of titanium anode; coating subsequent coating layer on the exterior layer of oxide seed layer.

The invention discloses a ferrite-modified modified carbon fiber cloth electrode, a preparation method and an application thereof, comprising the following steps: 1) preparing the modified carbon fiber cloth; 2) preparing that modified carbon fiber cloth electrochemical cathode modified by the ferrite material. The invention also discloses the modified carbon fiber cloth electrode modified by theferrite material and the application thereof. The ferrite-modified modified carbon fiber cloth electrochemical cathode can be used in electrochemical/ozone coupled water treatment system. As that rawmaterials of the preparation method are convenient to obtain, the preparation process is simple, the cost is low, the catalytic activity is high, the electrode performance is superior, and the preparation method is a water treatment technology with low energy consumption, high efficiency and complete mineralization of pollutant. The ferrite-modified modified carbon fiber cloth electrochemical cathode prepared by the invention has broad application prospect in the degradation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the circulating electric filtration system.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a graphene/polyaniline composite film electrode. The method comprises the following steps: adding aniline in hydrochloric acid, and stirring to obtain a product A; adding ammonium persulfate in the hydrochloric acid, and stirring to obtain a product B; mixing the product A with the product B, stirring, filtering, cleaning through distilled water and alcohol, and drying a sample obtained by filtering to obtain a product C; adding the product C in deionized water, and carrying out an ultrasonic oscillating treatment until a homogeneous polyaniline aqueous solution is obtained, namely, a product D; adding graphite oxide in the product D, and carrying out the ultrasonic oscillating treatment to obtain a product E; stewing the product E to obtain a product F; depositing the product F on a flexible plastic film, and drying to obtain a product G; soaking the product G in a hydrogen iodide solution, reducing, and cleaning to obtain a product H; soaking the product H in a hydrochloric acid solution, and drying to obtain a product I. The composite film of graphene/polyaniline fibers prepared by the method disclosed by the invention can be directly used as an electrode material of a flexible film super capacitor, and the method is simple to operate, short in time consumption, little in material consumption and is environmental friendly.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a voltage-controlled varactor made of transparent bismuth magnesium niobate thin films. The preparation method comprises following steps: Bi1.5MgNb1.5 O7 target material is prepared by solid state sintering method, wherein the firing temperature is 1150 to 1180 DEG C; a clean and dry indium tin oxid glass substrate is placed on a magnetron sputtering sample stage, Ar and O2 are used as sputtering gases, the Bi1.5MgNb1.5 O7 thin films are obtained by deposition, and then the Bi1.5MgNb1.5 O7 thin films are added into a furnace in oxygen atmosphere for post-annealing treatment; and metal electrodes are prepared on the Bi1.5MgNb1.5 O7 thin films by using mask version. Transparency of the varactor is high; tunability is moderate, device stability is high, preparation technologies are simple, electrode performances are excellent, no heavy metal poisoning or pollution is caused in preparation processes, and application prospect is promising.

The invention relates to a three-dimensional porous graphene electrode and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method includes following steps: (1) dispersing a certain quantity of graphite oxide powder in deionized water, performing ultrasound stripping to prepare homogeneous graphene oxide water dispersion liquid; (2) adding a hydrazine hydrate solution to the graphene oxide water dispersion liquid, successively performing a high-temperature short-time and a room-temperature long-time polymerization reactions to obtain a water-containing graphene polymer; (3) freeze-drying the water-containing graphene polymer to obtain three-dimensional porous graphene; and (4) cutting the three-dimensional porous graphene to obtain the electrode or directly employing the three-dimensional porous graphene as the electrode. In the invention, by means of the oxidation-reduction method, the polymerization reactions are carried out under a high graphene oxide concentration, so that single-layer graphene nano sheets are closed to eath other and are combined together through Van der waals force to form monolithic three-dimensional porous graphene, thereby preparing the electrode. The electrode has enough mechanical strength, is large in specific surface area and is excellent in performance.