A flexible and wearable aqueous symmetrical lithium-ion battery is developed using a single LiVPO4 F material as both cathode and anode in a "water-in-salt" gel polymer electrolyte. The symmetric lithium-ion chemistry exhibits high energy and power density and long cycle life, due to the formation of a robust solid electrolyte interphase consisting of Li2 CO3 -LiF, which enables fast Li-ion tra...

The dynamic properties of water molecules coordinated to simple ions (alkali and alkali-earth halides) and hydrophobic ions (tetraalkylammonium (TAA) halides) in supercooled solutions have been investigated with KMR. The study of spin-lattice relaxation rates and self-diffusion coefficients as functions of temperature, pressure, Larmor frequency and concentration reveals characteristic features...

We produced gaseous hydrated clusters of sulfate and oxalate anions [SO4(2-)-(H2O)n and C2O4(2-)(H2O)n, where n = 4 to 40]. Photoelectron spectra of these clusters revealed that the solute dianions were in the center of the water cluster, (H2O)n. For small clusters, these spectra were characteristic of the respective solutes, but beyond the first solvation shell (n approximately 12), features i...

Spatially selective electrodeposition of poly-3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT) thin films on metallic surfaces is shown to be an effective means of visualizing latent fingerprints. The technique exploits the fingerprint deposit as an insulating mask, such that electrochemical processes (here, polymer deposition) may only take place on deposit-free areas of the surface between the ridges of th...

On the basis of Kedem-Katchalsky's equations in classical and modified versions, the model equations of volume and solute fluxes were presented. In this model the osmotic volume flux is a sum of: simple osmotic, osmotic connected with natural convection and osmotic connected with forced convection fluxes. The solute flux is a sum of: simple diffusion, diffusion connected with natural convection...

Ideal dilute solutions, electrolyte solutions, regular solutions, regular polymer solutions and fused salts have been considered widely different systems. Yet an idealization of completely randommixingbythermal motion is adequate in these systems. In this respect these solutions are similar. Such recapition yielded a new concept, i.e., "Organized So lutions" . From the comparison of characteris...

At this study, thallium (I) ion-imprinted polymer, as a novel sorbent for Tl (I) and comparison with Tl(III) ion-imprinted polymer has been synthesized. This sorbent for preconcentration and solid-phase extraction of Tl(I) ions from aqueous solutions, used. Through preparing the binary complex of Tl(I) ions with 5, 7-dichloroquinoline-8-ol (DCQ) the particles of thallium (I) Ion-Imprinted P...

In order to keep abreast with the rapid development of portable electronic equipment, improving the performance of polymer electrolytes has therefore become our goal of research. This work improved performance of Li-ion polymer batteries through advanced gel polymer electrolytes (GPEs). Comparing with liquid type Electrolyte, Gel type Polymer Electrolyte (GPE) had the advantage of a wide variet...