Metal-ion capacitors could merit advantages from both batteries and capacitors, but they need to overcome the severe restrictions their sluggish reaction kinetics of battery type electrode low specific capacitance capacitor for high energy power density. Herein, we use Kirkendall effect first time synthesize unique tubular hierarchical molybdenum dioxide with encapsulated nitrogen-doped carbon ...

Metal oxidation is one of the spontaneous chemical reaction, which is hard to control. Most metals inevitably have at least a few layers of oxides on the surface in natural environment. Because of the large impact of metal oxidation on infrastructure and transportation, surface oxidation and its role on structure and property have attracted significant attentions on the fundamental aspects of o...

An analysis system has been designed and built to characterise liquid metal ion source beams. Both mass and angular resolved energy distribution measurements can be made, from which both FWHM energy spreads and energy deficits can be obtained. This paper briefly describes the system and presents and discusses the first off-axis results taken with a gallium liquid metal ion source. Liquid metal ...

A thermally stable, piezoelectric and pyroelectric polymeric substrate was prepared. This thermally stable, piezoelectric and pyroelectric polymeric substrate may be used to prepare electromechanical transducers, thermomechanical transducers, accelerometers, acoustic sensors, infrared sensors, pressure sensors, vibration sensors, impact sensors, in-situ temperature sensors, in-situ stresshtrain...

In this work a new chemically modified carbon paste electrode was constructed for accurate, simple, sensitive and selective determination of molybdenum (VI) ions. The results of modified electrode by an ion imprinted polymer were compared with those obtained with carbon paste electrode. The results showed the stripping peak currents had a dramatic increase at the modified electrode. Under the o...

Unlike the more established lithium-ion based energy storage chemistries, the complex intercalation chemistry of multivalent cations in a host lattice is not well understood, especially the relationship between the intercalating species solution chemistry and the prevalence and type of side reactions. Among multivalent metals, a promising model system can be based on nonaqueous Zn ion chemistry...

Metal oxychlorides are proved to be new cathode materials for chloride ion batteries. However, this kind of cathode materials is still in a very early stage of research and development. The obtained reversible capacity is low and the electrochemical reaction mechanism concerning chloride ion transfer is not clear. Herein, we report FeOCl/carbon composites prepared by mechanical milling of the a...

Nanoarchitectured electroactive materials can boost rates of Li insertion/extraction, showing genuine potential to increase power output of Li-ion batteries. However, electrodes assembled with low-dimensional nanostructured transition metal oxides by conventional approach suffer from dramatic reductions in energy capacities owing to sluggish ion and electron transport kinetics. Here we report t...