Aluminum-Ion Batteries In article number 2203236, Hongsen Li and co-workers develop a Sn-based alloy (Co3Sn2) as type of aluminum-ion battery positive electrode, revealing bimetallic activated center alloying reaction aluminum storage mechanism. Both Co Sn act activation centers with Al to generate AxSn AlyCo, respectively, which is fundamentally different from what occurs in other metal-ion ba...

fe2+ ion-selective membrane sensor has been fabricated from polyvinyl chloride (pvc) matrixmembrane containing neutral carrier tetra phenyl porphyrin (tpp) ionophore. the addition ofsodium tetraphenylborate (natpb) and the plasticizer dbp has been found to substantiallyimprove the performance of the sensor. the best performance was obtained with the sensor havinga membrane of composition of tpp...

A PVC membrane Cr(III) ion selective electrode has been constructed using 2H-1,4-benzothioazine-2,3(4H)dione dioxime (BTD) as membrane carrier. The influence of membrane composition on the electroderesponse was studied. The electrode exhibits a Nernstian response over a Cr(III) concentration range of 1.0 x10 6 to 1.0>< 10-1 M (r = 0.99) with a slope of 19.5 ± 0.5 mV per decade of concentration,...

We have discovered that an electrode containing a conical channel with a small angular divergence can transmit into the vacuum almost 100% of an electrospray ion current produced at atmospheric pressure. Our first implementation of such a conical duct, which we term "ConDuct," uses a conductive plastic pipette tip containing an approximately 1.6° divergent channel at its entrance. We observed t...

The complexation of five recently synthesized hydroxy-thioxanthone derivatives with Al3+ ion was studied in a methanol solution spectrophotometrically, and the stepwise formation constants of the resulting 1:1 and 2:1 (ligand-to-metal) complexes were evaluated. The suitability of the thioxanthone derivatives as neutral ionophores for the preparation of a new Al3+ ion-selective PVC-membrane elec...

Motivated by the analysis of electrochemical growth of metallic nanowires from solution, we studied ion fluxes near nanoelectrodes in a binary symmetric electrolyte on the basis of the modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations in the strongly nonlinear region at large applied ac voltage. For an approximate calculation of the electric field near the nanowire tip, concentric spherical blocking ele...

in order to preparing strontium ion selective electrode 6-(4- nitropheny1)-2-pheny14, 4- dipropy1-3, 5-diaza-bicyclo [3, 1, 0] hex-2-ene (npdbh) was used as an ionophore. this electrode responds to sr (ii)ion with a sensitivity of 28.2 ± 0.5 mv/decade over the range 1.0 x 10-6 to 1.0 mat ph 3.0-10.0. thelimit of detection was 2.4 x 10-7 m. the influences of membrane composition, the ph of the t...