This paper presents our research on silicon-based proton exchange membranes for siliconbased micro fuel cell applications. The porous silicon membranes with a thickness of 20-40 m were fabricated. And the porous silicon-based proton exchange membranes were formed by using the combination of the porous silicon membranes and Nafion solution. The proton conductivities of the porous silicon-based P...

Strangeness content is one of the most important questions in hadron structure because it sheds light on the role of the quark-anti quark sea in the ground state properties. One important tool is elastic parity-violating electron-proton scattering, which has been used to probe the the charge and magnetization distributions of the strange quark within the nucleon. At the tree level, the parity-v...

Based on a previously developed polyamide proton conductive macromolecule, the nano-scale structure of the self-assembled proton conductive channels (PCCs) is adjusted via enlarging the nano-scale pore size within the macromolecules. Hyperbranched polyamide macromolecules with different size are synthesized from different monomers to tune the nano-scale pore size within the macromolecules, and ...

The 1,2,3-triazole is a well-known biologically active pharmacophore constructed by the copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition. We herein reported synthesis of 4-amino-7-chloro-based [1,2,3]-triazole hybrids via Cu(I)-catalyzed Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition 4-azido-7-chloroquinoline with an alkyne derivative acetaminophen. compound was fully characterized Fourier-transform infrared (FT...

A detailed theoretical investigation of the charge transport mechanism in poly(4-vinyl-imidazole) (P4VI), the parent polymer of a series of N-heterocyclic-based membranes used as an electrolyte in proton exchange membrane fuel cells, is presented. In particular, Density Functional Theory (DFT) results obtained for small model systems (protonated imidazole dimers and trimers) suggest that the co...

Lipid membrane surfaces can act as proton-collecting antennae, accelerating proton uptake by membrane-bound proton transporters. We investigated this phenomenon in lipid nanodiscs (NDs) at equilibrium on a local scale, analyzing fluorescence fluctuations of individual pH-sensitive fluorophores at the membrane surface by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS). The protonation rate of the fl...