Voltage Decay of Li-Rich Layered Oxides: Mechanism,Modification Strategies,and Perspectives

Li-rich layered oxides (LLOs) have been considered as the most promising cathode materials for achieving high energy density Li-ion batteries. However, they suffer from continuous voltage decay during cycling, which seriously shortens the lifespan of the battery in practical applications. This review comprehensively elaborates and summarizes the state-of-the-art of the research in this field. It is started from the proposed mechanism of voltage decay that refers to the phase transition, microscopic defects, and oxygen redox or release. Furthermore, several strategies to mitigate the voltage decay of LLOs from different scales, such as surface modification, elemental doping, regulation of components, control of defect, and morphology design are summarized. Finally, a systematic outlook on the real root of voltage decay is provided, and more importantly, a potential solution to voltage recovery from electrochemistry. Based on this progress, some effective strategies with multiple scales will be feasible to create the conditions for their commercialization in the future.     

Cryptanalysis of Two Signature Schemes for IoT and Mobile Health Systems

Wireless Personal Communications - Recently, Lee et al. (Sensors 20(14): 3983, 2020) proposed a certificateless aggregate arbitrated signature scheme CLAAS for IoT environments. Addobea et...     

Friendly spectrum jamming against MIMO eavesdropping

Wireless Networks - Friendly spectrum jamming is a flexible scheme to establish secure communications among heterogeneous wireless devices without the need of encryption. Previous works have...     

Graphene quantum dots derived from hollow carbon nano-onions

Herein, carbon nano-onions (CNOs) with different structures have been investigated as precursors for the synthesis of graphene quantum dots (GQDs). It was found that hollow CNOs yield GQDs with a uniform size distribution, whereas metal encapsulation in the CNO structure is disadvantageous for the same. Furthermore, the hollow CNOs are also advantageous for the synthesis of GQDs with a yellow-green hybrid luminescence and long-ranged excitation wavelength (λ _ex)-independent photoluminescent (PL) behavior, in which the λ _ex upper limit was 480 nm. These features enable safe sensing and cell tracking applications with a longer excitation wavelength in the visible light region. The potential applications of the synthesized GQDs as fluorescent sensing probes for detecting Cu(II) ions and non-toxic cell imaging under visible light excitation have been demonstrated. This means that sensing and bioimaging can be accomplished in the natural environment with no need for UV excitation. This work provides a reference to researchers in tailoring CNO structures in terms of their inner space to synthesize GQDs with the desired luminescence behavior.

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Issues and solution on distortion drift in reversible video data hiding

Different from reversible image data hiding, most reversible video data hiding schemes have the particular problem that the distortion due to hidden data will spread and accumulate. In this paper, the problem of distortion drift caused by reversible data hiding in compressed video is analyzed, and a lossless drift compensation scheme is proposed to restrain the distortion for the first time. In order to ensure the reversibility, drift compensation signals are merged in the quantized DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform) coefficients of P-frames and the corresponding recovery mechanism is presented as well. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed lossless drift compensation scheme significantly improves the video quality, and the original compressed video can be recovered exactly after the hidden data and compensation signals are removed. In addition, the proposed scheme does not depend on specific reversible data hiding method.     

基于SIMD结构的多标准LDPC译码器的VLSI实现

近年来,支持多标准的LDPC译码器已逐渐成为研究的热点.与传统译码器相比,所设计的LDPC译码器具有以下优点:1.实现了一个码率、码长可配置结构,进而可以支持多种标准;2.采用了一种改进型TPMP算法,使译码器的存储器容量大大减少,避免了因分块LDPC码的非规则性所造成的数据冲突问题;3.采用基于SIMD处理器的硬件结构,实现了硬件的高度规整性,易于芯片布局布线;4.设计了一个6级可配置流水线,可分时构造校验节点处理单元和变量节点处理单元,提高了硬件利用率和系统数据吞吐率.用这种架构实现了一个同时支持CMMB和DTMB两个标准的多标准LDPC译码器;芯片规模为75万门,时钟频率为220MHz,数据吞吐率为300Mbps.     

Direct raycasting of unstructured cell-centered data by discontinuity Roe-average computation

In the field of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the upwind finite volume method (FVM) is widely applied to solve 3D flows with discontinuity phenomena (e.g., shock waves). It produces unstructured data at the center of each cell (cell-centered data) with the flow discontinuity constraint on the inner-face between face-neighboring cells. For visualization, existing approaches with interpolation usually pre-extrapolate cell-centered data into cell-vertexed data (data values given at cell vertices) and only handle cell-vertexed data during actual rendering, which unconsciously depress the rendering accuracy and violate the discontinuity constraint. In this paper, we propose a novel method to visualize cell-centered data directly avoiding extrapolation and keep the discontinuity in the rendering data on the framework of multi-pass raycasting. During resampling, the field is reconstructed using the original cell-centered data value and the cell-gradient estimated by Green–Gauss theorem. To keep the discontinuity, we reconstruct the field at an inner-face resampled point using both the face-adjacencies and get two discontinuous field values. Then the field is obtained by computing Roe-average of the two. The analysis and experiments demonstrate that our approach gains a high-accuracy reconstruction and leads to a high-quality image.     

H.264帧内预测模式选择快速算法的研究

提出一种适用于H.264帧内预测的快速算法,利用相邻像素间的梯度筛选预测模式来避免不必要的预测模式计算。实验结果表明:用全I帧编码,该算法在图像质量和输出码率基本不变的情况下,编码时间大约节省了60%。