3435 results about "Oxygen ions" patented technology

A dental bleach storage, mixing and delivery device and related method are disclosed. The device includes a barrel with at least two chambers. The chambers store components that when mixed can form a dental bleach or whitener. A plunger is provided that can be reciprocated within the barrel to force such components from their chambers. A mixing tip is provided for the end of the barrel. The components may be forced through the mixing tip which thoroughly mixes them together. The resulting bleach or whitener is applied to a patient's teeth where oxygen ions released from the bleach or whitener and will whiten the patient's teeth.

The invention relates to an indoor decorative material, in particular to a diatom internal wall coating with humidity-regulating and air-purifying functions and a preparation process thereof, and aims at overcoming the defects existing in the prior art and providing the diatom internal wall coating and the preparation process thereof, wherein the diatom internal wall coating has an excellent indoor air humidity-regulating function, can eliminate peculiar smell, preserve heat, reduce noise, remove harmful gases including formaldehyde, toluene and the like in the air, can continuously release negative oxygen ions, has a lasting environmental-protection function, a humidity-regulating function and the air-purifying function, and is rich in colors, strong in texture and environment-friendly. The diatom internal wall coating with the humidity-regulating and air-purifying functions and the preparation process of the diatom internal wall coating have the advantages that ingredients can be used after screened, weighed, evenly mixed in a grading mode, checked out and packaged. When the diatom internal wall coating is used, water is added into the coating to prepare a pasty or milky coating, and texture shape construction can be performed in a batch-coating, blade-coating or wipe-coating mode or in a roll-coating, spraying or brush-coating mode. An appropriate construction process can be selected according to the decorative requirements.

In solid oxygen ion conducting electrolytes for electrochemical cells based on magnesium oxide and calcium oxide, obtained by the addition of metal fluorides selected from elements in the groups of alkali metals and earth alkali metals to the host oxides of magnesium and calcium, conductivity values are obtained, which are comparable with those of stabilized zirconia, but the magnesium oxide and calcium oxide based oxygen ion conducting electrolytes have a superior thermodynamic stability and, therefore, can operate at much lower oxygen concentrations in comparison with other oxygen ion conducting electrolytes and without becoming noticeably electronically conductive.

A ionic catching broad-spectrum highly effective dynamic rapid air sterilizing and cleaning machine, belonging to field of application research of air ionizing technique in the artificial environmental science, electrical climatology and iatrophysics; comprising power supply, air quality regulating display, fan or drive air flow, negative high pressure generator, electrical dust collector connected with earth inside and outside of the machine, and negative oxygen ion emission electrode; the negative end of the negative high pressure generator is connected with negative oxygen ion emission electrode to emit negative oxygen ion of high concentration to space, the positive end of it is connected with earth and electrical dust collector; the air quality regulating display can be equipped with water spray in outside, the water spray together with the fine particle in air acts as carrier adsorbing various pollutant in room air, and becomes negative larger dust particle gradually by using negative oxygen ion as kernel, and when its gravity together with the electric field force is larger than floating force, it will quickly fall to positive earth and dust collector, through which realizes purpose of broad-spectrum highly effective dynamic rapid air sterilizing and cleaning, and thus effectively controls the disease spread.

A gas-detecting element comprising an oxygen-ion-conductive solid electrolyte substrate, a sensing electrode fixed onto said solid electrolyte substrate and active with a detection object gas and oxygen, and a reference electrode fixed onto said solid electrolyte substrate and active with at least oxygen, for detecting potential difference between the sensing electrode and the reference electrode to determine the concentration of the detection object gas, the sensing electrode and/or the reference electrode being covered by an electrode-coating layer made of an oxygen-ion-conductive solid electrolyte, and the electrode-coating layer having a portion bonded to the solid electrolyte substrate directly or via an electrode underlayer made of an oxygen-ion-conductive solid electrolyte.

A nitrogen oxide concentration detector has a first measurement chamber 2 into which is introduced a measurement gas via a first diffusion resistance 1; an oxygen concentration detection electrode 7a for measuring the oxygen concentration in the measurement gas in said first measurement chamber 1; a first oxygen ion pump cell 6 for pumping out oxygen in the measurement gas from said first measurement chamber 2 based on the potential of said oxygen concentration detection electrode 7a; a second measurement chamber 8 into which the gas is introduced from said first measurement chamber 2 via a second diffusion resistance 3; and a second oxygen ion pump cell 8 having a pair of electrodes 8a,8b across which a voltage is applied to decompose NOx in the second measurement chamber 4 to pump out dissociated oxygen to cause a current Ip2 corresponding to the NOx concentration to flow in the second oxygen ion pump cell 8. Variation of NOx concentration is a function of variation of Ip2. The concentration obtained based on the Ip2 is corrected responsive to the oxygen concentration in the measurement gas. Particularly, a coefficient of the variation of the Ip2, gain, in said function is corrected responsive to the oxygen concentration in the measurement gas.

A solid oxide fuel cell has anode, cathode and electrolyte layers each formed essentially of a multi-oxide ceramic material and having a far-from-equilibrium, metastable structure selected from the group consisting of nanocrystalline, nanocomposite and amorphous. The electrolyte layer has a matrix of the ceramic material, and is impervious and serves as a fast oxygen ion conductor. The electrolyte layer has a matrix of the ceramic material and a dopant dispersed therein in an amount substantially greater than its equilibrium solubility in the ceramic matrix. The anode layer includes a continuous surface area metallic phase in which electron conduction is provided by the metallic phase and the multi-oxide ceramic matrix provides ionic conduction.

The invention discloses a composite antibacterial anion air cleanser and a preparation method thereof. The air cleanser comprises the following raw materials by weight percent: 0.5-30 % of colorless and transparent anion crystal/powder, 0.5-2 % of photocatalyst powder, 1-10 % of a transparent nano silver solution, 1-15 % of food-grade ethanol, 0.1-5 % of natural plant essential oil and 20-50 % of deionized water. The air cleanser provided by the invention can rapidly decompose formaldehyde, benzene, ammonia and other harmful gases in spaces in a few minutes, with a cleansing rate of more than 98 %, and is rapidly and durably antibacterial and antivirus; furthermore, the air cleanser does not contain toxic chemical compositions, and is free of any side effects on the body and secondary pollution. According to the invention, the air cleanser decomposes odor molecules through anion and photocatalytic decomposition factors to remove odors, and can durably release a lot of negative oxygen ions, wherein the negative oxygen ions are known as "air vitamin" and are beneficial for human's physical and mental health, so that the air cleanser provided by the invention has relatively good health care function.

A composite, high-temperature resistant, non-carbon metal-based anode of a cell for the electrowinning of aluminium comprises a metal-based core structure of low electrical resistance, for connecting the anode to a positive current supply, coated with a series of superimposed, adherent, electrically conductive layers. These layers consist of at least one layer on the core structure constituting a barrier substantially impervious to monoatomic oxygen and molecular oxygen; one or more intermediate, protective layers on the oxygen barrier layer which remain inactive in the reactions for the evolution of oxygen gas; and an electrochemically active layer for the oxidation reaction of oxygen ions present at the anode/electrolyte interface into nascent monoatomic oxygen, as well as for subsequent reaction for the formation of gaseous biatomic oxygen. The active layer on the outermost intermediate layer is slowly consumable during electrolysis and protects the intermediate protective layer by inhibiting its dissolution into the electrolyte.

Amperometric ceramic electrochemical cells comprise, in one embodiment, an electrolyte layer, a sensing electrode layer, and a counter electrode layer, wherein the cell is operable in an oxidizing atmosphere and under an applied bias to exhibit enhanced reduction of oxygen molecules at the sensing electrode in the presence of one or more target gases such as nitrogen oxides (NO_X) or NH₃ and a resulting increase in oxygen ion flux through the cell. In another embodiment, amperometric ceramic electrochemical cells comprise an electrolyte layer comprising a continuous network of a first material which is ionically conducting at an operating temperature of about 200 to 550° C.; a counter electrode layer comprising a continuous network of a second material which is electrically conductive at an operating temperature of about 200 to 550° C.; and a sensing electrode layer comprising a continuous network of a third material which is electrically conductive at an operating temperature of about 200 to 550° C., which sensing electrode is operable to exhibit increased charge transfer in the presence of one or more target gas species. These electrochemical cells and additional electrochemical cell embodiments are suitable for use in gas sensors and methods of sensing or detecting one or more target gases.

The invention provides a composite material containing a perovskite structure oxide, a preparation method and application thereof. The composite material contains, by weight, 20%-99.99% of the perovskite structure oxide and 0.01%-80% of an oxygen ion conductor oxide. According to the invention, a sol-gel method can be employed to prepare the perovskite structure oxide, a combustion method can be employed to prepare the oxygen ion conductor oxide, and then the perovskite structure oxide and the oxygen ion conductor oxide can be mixed uniformly by means of ball milling or mechanical grinding, thus obtaining the composite material. The invention also relates to application of the composite material in solid oxide fuel cells and solid oxide electrolysis cells.

The invention discloses a healthcare plate material capable of generating anions and far infrared rays. The plate material comprises the following raw material components in percentage by weight: 70-80 percent of saw dust, 3-5 percent of eaglewood, 5-9 percent of tourmaline powder, 5-9 percent of anion powder, 1-3 percent of preservative, 2-4 percent of adhesive and 1-3 percent of antibacterial agent. The invention further discloses a composite healthcare plate material with the healthcare plate material capable of generating the anions and the far infrared rays. According to the healthcare plate material, healthcare materials beneficial to a human body such as the eaglewood, the anion powder and the tourmaline are adopted, and healthcare plate materials which are pressed under different pressures according to different using functions and are different in hardness and thickness can have different purposes. The healthcare plate material can release negative oxygen ions, the far infrared rays and a magnetic field, and the fitness and the immunity of a human body are unconsciously improved in the life and work of people by virtue of the fragrance of the eaglewood. Meanwhile, the practicality of the healthcare plate material is improved, so that the using function of the healthcare plate material is diversified, and the healthcare plate material is convenient to commonly use and popularize.

A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same capable of reducing variations in the thickness of a semiconductor device are provided. The amount of oxygen implanted ions is less than the amount of implanted oxygen ions in the conventional epitaxial SIMOX wafers. Oxygen is ion-implanted into the surface layer of a silicon wafer from the surface of the wafer. Then, by heat treating the wafer, a thinning stop layer, which is an imperfect buried oxide film, is formed along the entire plane of the wafer. As a result, variation of the thickness of the semiconductor device formed in an active layer can be reduced, since the, the reliability of the accuracy of the end point of silicon wafer thinning is higher than that of a thinning using the conventional deep trench structure as an end point detector.

A non-carbon, metal-based anode (10) of a cell for the electrowinning of aluminium, comprising an electrically conductive, high temperature resistant and oxidation resistant metal structure (11) in the form of a wire mesh or net, a foraminate sheet, a fibrous network, a reticulated skeletal structure, or a porous structure having voids, recesses and/or pores which are filled or partly filled with an electrochemically active filling (12), such as oxides, oxyfluorides, phosphides, carbides, cobaltites and cuprates making the surface of the anode (10) conductive and electrochemically active for the oxidation of oxygen ions present at the anode surface/electrolyte (5) interface.

A composite oxygen ion transport membrane having a dense layer, a porous support layer, an optional intermediate porous layer located between the porous support layer and the dense layer and an optional surface exchange layer, overlying the dense layer. The dense layer has electronic and ionic phases. The ionic phase is composed of scandia doped, yttrium or cerium stabilized zirconia. The electronic phase is composed of a metallic oxide containing lanthanum, strontium, chromium, manganese and vanadium and optionally cerium. The porous support layer is composed of zirconia partially stabilized with yttrium, scandium, aluminum or cerium or mixtures thereof. The intermediate porous layer, if used, contains the same ionic and electronic phases as the dense layer. The surface exchange layer is formed of an electronic phase of a metallic oxide of lanthanum and strontium that also contains either manganese or iron and an ionic phase of scandia doped zirconia stabilized with yttrium or cerium.

The invention provides a composite multifunctional air-activating dust-cleaning sterilization device comprising a shell, a sterilization dust cleaner and a base. The sterilization dust cleaner is mounted inside the shell, and comprises a mounting shell, a coarse filtrating screen, a two-point potential difference electrostatic sterilization dust-removing unit, photocatalyst filtrating screens, ultraviolet lamps, coconut shell crystal porous adsorption activated carbon, a negative oxygen ion generator and a mute blower. By the device, just entered air can be ionized effectively in an inlet stage so as to kill bacteria and germs momentarily, various organic compounds and part of inorganic substances are decomposed oxidatively by the aid of the photocatalysis nanoscale titanium dioxide photocatalyst filtrating screens, bacterial cell membranes and protein of curing viruses are destroyed, and multi-functional air cleaning effects of sterilization, deodorization, mildew proofing, pollution prevention and self cleaning are achieved by the aid of activated adsorption and negative oxygen ion activation technologies.

A process for inhibiting the formation of carbon and/or coke from a carbon-containing reactive gas stream on the permeate side of an oxygen ion transport membrane, or for increasing the oxygen partial pressure thereon, by separating a feed gas stream to form an oxygen-depleted gas stream on the retentate side and a gas stream containing oxygen reaction products on the permeate side. The permeate side is purged with the carbon-containing reactive gas stream, and at least a portion of the exhaust gas stream formed from the reaction of the reactive gas stream with the separated oxygen is recirculated to purge the permeate side.