For reducing the Pt usage and driving down the cost of fuel cells, it is urgent to develop alternative Pt-free catalysts with high catalytic performance. In this study, an Ir3Sn–CeO2/C heterogeneous catalyst is designed as low-price, alternative Pt-free electrocatalyst towards ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) in acidic conditions. Owing to the strong synergistic effect among Ir, Sn and CeO2 components, Ir3Sn–CeO2/C heterogeneous catalyst exhibits higher catalytic activity and stability for EOR in comparison with commercial Pt/C, as-prepared Ir/C and Ir3Sn/C. Additionally, kinetics and mechanisms of EOR are also investigated. It proves that ethanol electrooxidation on Ir3Sn–CeO2/C catalyst is a diffusion controlled irreversible process. Meanwhile, the H2SO4 and ethanol concentrations can affect the EOR activity. All results demonstrate Ir3Sn–CeO2/C heterogeneous catalyst is a promising Pt-free choice for EOR. 相似文献
Accurate segmentation of lungs in pathological thoracic computed tomography (CT) scans plays an important role in pulmonary disease diagnosis. However, it is still a challenging task due to the variability of pathological lung appearances and shapes. In this paper, we proposed a novel segmentation algorithm based on random forest (RF), deep convolutional network, and multi-scale superpixels for segmenting pathological lungs from thoracic CT images accurately. A pathological thoracic CT image is first segmented based on multi-scale superpixels, and deep features, texture, and intensity features extracted from superpixels are taken as inputs of a group of RF classifiers. With the fusion of classification results of RFs by a fractional-order gray correlation approach, we capture an initial segmentation of pathological lungs. We finally utilize a divide-and-conquer strategy to deal with segmentation refinement combining contour correction of left lungs and region repairing of right lungs. Our algorithm is tested on a group of thoracic CT images affected with interstitial lung diseases. Experiments show that our algorithm can achieve a high segmentation accuracy with an average DSC of 96.45% and PPV of 95.07%. Compared with several existing lung segmentation methods, our algorithm exhibits a robust performance on pathological lung segmentation. Our algorithm can be employed reliably for lung field segmentation of pathologic thoracic CT images with a high accuracy, which is helpful to assist radiologists to detect the presence of pulmonary diseases and quantify its shape and size in regular clinical practices.