The characterization of separators for Li-ion or Li-metal batteries incorporating hydrophobic ionic liquid electrolytes is reported herein. Ionic liquids made of N-butyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium (PYR14+) or N-methoxyethyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium (PYR12O1+), paired with bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (TFSI-) or bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (FSI-) anions, were tested in combination with separators hav...

Purpose. The purpose of our study was to examine the relationships between pathological patterns and self-rated quality of life (QoL). Methods. A total of 426 Korean subjects participated in this study (male : female = 154 : 272). The subjects were asked to complete Yin Deficiency (YD), Qi Deficiency (QD), Food Stagnation (FS), Blood Stasis (BS), Phlegm, and Seven Emotions Impairment (SEI) patt...

A Johnson Matthey 287 (JM 287) graphite powder disks sandwiched between two nickel screens was used as working electrodes in 1.0 M lithium hexafluorophosphate in mixed carbonate ester electrolyte. Their intrinsic impedance and lithium intercalation kinetics were determined using several different electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) protocols. The thermal stability of the electrolyte wa...

The performance characteristics of Li-ion batteries are intrinsically linked to evolving nanoscale interfacial electrochemical reactions. To probe the mechanisms of solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) formation and to track Li nucleation and growth mechanisms from a standard organic battery electrolyte (LiPF6 in EC:DMC), we used in situ electrochemical scanning transmission electron microscopy (...

Blocking the already swept high permeable zone with a biodegradable polymer gel is expected to be a more effective and innovative sweep efficiency improvement (SEI) method. This is because it has no risk of formation damage, and it is expected to show additional oil recovery if the microbes have a MEOR effect. In this study, in order to confirm the effect of this blocking on the SEI, a waterflo...

impedance (AI) and a parameter related to shear-wave velocity from seismic data, our ability to discriminate between different lithologies and fluid phases will increase. Prestack inversion on individual CDP gathers and inverting directly for VP, VS, and density have been tested in several ways, but the estimated parameters are often poorly determined. A more robust approach is to apply poststa...

Specific emitter identification (SEI) is the technique which identifies the individual emitter based on the RF fingerprint of signal. Most existing SEI techniques based on the transient RF fingerprint are sensitive to noise and need different variables for transient detection and RF fingerprint extraction. This paper proposes a novel SEI technique for the common digital modulation signals, whic...

From an evolutionary point of view, sex differences in intergenerational transmission of income may be influenced by the Trivers-Willard (T-W) effect: Low status parents should invest more in daughters, whereas high status parents are expected to invest more in sons. This bias in parental investment may result in status-dependent sex biased parental support for higher education and educational ...

In distributed systems, data corruption on a single node can propagate to other nodes in the system and cause severe outages. The probability of data corruption is already non-negligible today in large computer populations (e.g., in large datacenters). The resilience of processors is expected to decline in the near future, making it necessary to devise cost-effective software approaches to deal...

A detailed understanding of the mechanism of the formation of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) is crucial for designing high-capacity and longer-lifecycle lithium-ion batteries. The anode-side SEI primarily consists of the reductive dissociation products of the electrolyte molecules. Any accurate computational method for studying the reductive decomposition mechanism of electrolyte molecu...