04/23/2015Anion Exchange Membranes with Low Vanadium Ions Crossover for All-Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
The proton exchange membrane, a key component of the VRB, plays an important role in the whole battery performance, which can not only separate two sides of electrolytes to prevent cross-contamination, but also provide ionic conductive channels and complete the circuit during charge-discharge processes.
04/16/2015Offering an Insight into the Electrochemical Mechanism of Ni-P Synergetic Deposition by Electrochemical and Chemical Deposition
Prof. Xuedong Wu’s group at CNITECH has fabricated patterned tailored films with different hydrophobicity .this group illustrated the nucleation mechanism of Ni-P deposit that was prepared by synergetic effect of electrochemical deposition and chemical deposition.
04/14/2015A Series of High Entropy Bulk Metallic Glasses with Excellent Magnetocaloric Properties
Dr.Juntao Huo with his colleagues in the group of amorphous soft magnetic materials has successfully developed a series of high-entropy bulk metallic glasses (HE-BMGs) which based on the traditional RE-based BMGs
04/10/2015Discovering the Role of Carboxyl Group in Carbon Nanomaterials Catalyzed Reactions
Jian Zhang’s group and Yajie Zhang’s group from Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS made a new progress in carbon catalyzed reaction mechanism.They found a pivotal role of carboxyl group on the surface of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the catalytic reactions of electrochemical oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and agar conversion to 5-hydroxymethylfur...
04/10/2015The Mechanism of Low Thermal Conductivity in Cu2GeSe3
Prof. Jiang’s group, Shao and Liu et al. at Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences have investigated the lattice dynamics and thermodynamic properties of Cu2GeSe3 by first-principles calculations. The obtained phonon frequencies agree well with the measurements of Raman scattering.
