Polyacrylonitrile‐carbon Nanotube‐polyacrylonitrile: A Versatile Robust Platform for Flexible Multifunctional Electronic Devices in Medical Applications

Flexible multifunctional electronic devices are of high interest for a wide range of applications including thermal therapy and respiratory devices in medical treatment, safety equipment, and structural health monitoring systems. This paper reports a scalable and efficient strategy of manufacturing a polyacrylonitrile‐carbon nanotube‐polyacrylonitrile (PAN‐CNT‐PAN) robust flexible platform for multifunctional electronic devices including flexible heaters, temperature sensors, and flexible thermal flow sensors. The key advantages of this platform include low cost, porosity, mechanical robustness, and electrical stability under mechanical bending, enabling the development of fast‐response flexible heaters with a response time of ≈1.5 s and relaxation time of ≈1.7 s. The temperature‐sensing functionality is also investigated with a range of temperature coefficient of resistances from ?650 to ?900 ppm K^?1. A flexible hot‐film sensing concept is successfully demonstrated using PAN‐CNT‐PAN with a high sensitivity of 340 mV (m s^?1)^?1. The sensitivity enhancement of 50% W^?1 is also observed with increasing supply power. The low cost, porosity, versatile, and robust properties of the proposed platform will enable the development of multifunctional electronic devices for numerous applications such as flexible thermal management, temperature stabilization in industrial processing, temperature sensing, and flexible/wearable devices for human healthcare applications.     

Temperature Control of a Regasification System for LNG-fuelled Marine Engines Using Nonlinear Control Techniques

International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems - This paper presents two nonlinear PID (NPID) controllers which control the glycol temperature of a regasification system for LNG-fuelled...     

Resistive switching characteristics and conducting nanobits of polycrystalline NiO thin films

Thin films of NiO were deposited on Pt/Ta/glass sub-strates using a radio frequency (RF) sputtering method. The NiO thin films showed polycrystalline nature, indicating preferentially (111)-oriented structure. The resistive random access memory (RRAM) capacitor of a Pt/NiO/Pt structure exhibited unipolar switching characteristics and bistable resistivities for 200 repeated switching cycles. Furthermore, RRAM nanobits array was formed on the NiO thin films by applying a bias. The RRAM nanobits had a diameter of approximately 8 nm and were observed via a conducting atomic force microscope (CAFM). The density of the RRAM nanobits array was estimated to be approximately 0.64 Tbit/cm².     

Hydrogen production in fluidized bed by chemical-looping cycle

To investigate the feasibility of a chemical-looping hydrogen generation system, we investigated the reduction and water splitting reaction characteristics for three mediators and two reducing gas in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor (0.02 m I.D.). For three oxygen carrier particles (NiO/bentonite, Fe₂O₃/bentonite, (NiO:Fe₂O₃)/bentonite), hydrogen was used as a reduction gas and water was used as an oxidation gas. For (NiO: Fe₂O₃)/bentonite particle, carbon monoxide, which is the main component in the syngas from coal or heavy residue, was used as a reducing gas to check reactivity for the carbon containing fuels and carbon deposition characteristics. Based on the reactivity tests, (NiO: Fe₂O₃)/bentonite particle was selected as the best mediator for the chemical-looping hydrogen generation system to achieve stable continuous operation. This work was presented at the 6 ^th Korea-China Workshop on Clean Energy Technology held at Busan, Korea, July 4–7, 2006.     

Hazardous acid detection based on chitosan‐grafted‐polyaniline copolymer

Polyaniline (PANI) has been utilized very well as an active material for hazardous acid detection device. Because its electrical conductivity is developing when it is doped with the protonic acid. However, a critical disadvantage of this material is its insolubility in general solvents so its processability is very poor. In this work, we prepared a Chitosan‐g‐PANI (Cs‐g‐PANI) copolymer to improve its solubility and prossability using common solvents and use film form of the final product to develop a sensitive device, which responds to the presence of hazardous acids. The synthetic Cs‐g‐PANI showing good solubility and excellent film forming properties was characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy, as well as X‐ray diffraction analysis, and scanning electron microscopy. The physical properties of Cs‐g‐PANI films were optimized by controlling the Cs composition. Constant potential was applied to this material for detecting the existence of hazardous acids such as hydrochloric acid (HCl), nitric acid, formic acid, and acetic acid. Our findings suggest that this device responds to the presence of HCl faster than any other acids. The detection mechanism is discussed in detail. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 59:E105–E110, 2019. © 2018 Society of Plastics Engineers     

A general procedure to synthesize highly crystalline metal oxide and mixed oxide nanocrystals in aqueous medium and photocatalytic activity of metal/oxide nanohybrids

A conventional and general route has been exploited to the high yield synthesis of many kinds of highly crystalline metal oxide and mixed oxide nanocrystals with different morphologies including belt, rod, truncated-octahedron, cubic, sphere, sheet via the hydrothermal reaction of inorganic precursors in aqueous solution in the presence of bifunctional 6-aminohexanoic acid (AHA) molecules as a capping agent. This method is a simple, reproducible and general route for the preparation of a variety of high-crystalline inorganic nanocrystals in scale-up. The shape of inorganic nanocrystals such as CoWO(4), La(2)(MoO(4))(3) can be controlled by simply adjusting the synthesis conditions including pH solution and reaction temperature. Further, by tuning precursor monomer concentration, the mesocrystal hierarchical aggregated microspheres (e.g., MnWO(4), La(2)(MoO(4))(3)) can be achieved, due to the spontaneous assembly of individual AHA-capped nanoparticles. These obtained AHA-capped nanocrystals are excellent supports for the synthesis of a variety of hybrid metal/oxide nanocrystals in which noble metal particles are uniformly deposited on the surface of each individual nanosupport. The photocatalytic activity of Ag/TiO(2) nanobelts as a typical hybrid photocatalyst sample for Methylene Blue degradation was also studied.     

关于Filon算法的一点注记

本文对谐波分析中数值积分的Filon公式提出了一点改进,改进后的算法在微机上得到实现,经实算表明,计算结果满足工程精度要求。