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Electrocatalysis of fuel cell reactions: Investigation of alternate electrolytes
Oxygen reduction and transport properties of the electrolyte in the phosphoric acid fuel cell are studied. The areas covered were: (1) development of a theoretical expression for the rotating ring disk electrode technique; (2) determination of the intermediate reaction rate constants for oxygen reduction on platinum in phosphoric acid electrolyte; (3) determination of oxygen reduction mechanism in trifluoreomethanesulfonic acid (TFMSA) which was considered as an alternate electrolyte for the acid fuel cells; and (4) the measurement of transport properties of the phosphoric acid electrolyte at high concentrations and temperatures
Electrocatalysis of fuel cell reactions: Investigation of alternate electrolytes
Oxygen reduction and transport properties of the electrolyte in the phosphoric acid fuel cell are studied. A theoretical expression for the rotating ring-disk electrode technique; the intermediate reaction rate constants for oxygen reduction on platinum in phosphoric acid electrolyte; oxygen reduction mechanism in trifluoromethanesulfonic acid (TFMSA), considered as an alternate electrolyte for the acid fuel cells; and transport properties of the phosphoric acid electrolyte at high concentrations and temperatures are covered
Crystal orientation and thickness dependence of superconductivity on tetragonal FeSe1-x thin films
Superconductivity was recently found in the simple tetragonal FeSe structure.
Recent studies suggest that FeSe is unconventional, with the symmetry of the
superconducting pairing state still under debate. To tackle these problems,
clean single crystals and thin films are required. Here we report the
fabrication of superconducting beta-phase FeSe1-x thin films on different
substrates using a pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. Quite
interestingly, the crystal orientation, and thus, superconductivity in these
thin films is sensitive to the growth temperature. At 320C, films grow
preferably along c-axis, but the onset of superconductivity depends on film
thickness. At 500C, films grow along (101), with little thickness dependence.
These results suggest that the low temperature structural deformation
previously found is crucial to the superconductivity of this material
Spin correlations and velocity-scaling in color-octet NRQCD matrix elements
We compute spin-dependent decay matrix elements for S-wave charmonium and
bottomonium in lattice nonrelativistic quantum chromodynamics (NRQCD).
Particular emphasis is placed upon the color-octet matrix elements, since the
corresponding production matrix elements are expected to appear in the dominant
contributions to the production cross sections at large transverse momenta. We
use three slightly different versions of the heavy-quark lattice Green's
functions in order to minimize the contributions that scale as powers of the
ultraviolet cutoff. The lattice matrix elements that we calculate obey the
hierarchy that is suggested by the velocity-scaling rules of NRQCD.Comment: 25 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, further discussion of effective
lattice cutoffs and uncertainties, additional minor revisions, version to be
published in Phys. Rev.
The NLO QCD Corrections to Meson Production in Decays
The decay width of to meson is evaluated at the next-to-leading
order(NLO) accuracy in strong interaction. Numerical calculation shows that the
NLO correction to this process is remarkable. The quantum
chromodynamics(QCD)renormalization scale dependence of the results is obviously
depressed, and hence the uncertainties lying in the leading order calculation
are reduced.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures; references added; expressions and typos ammende
Landslide mapping with multi-scale object-based image analysis – a case study in the Baichi watershed, Taiwan
We developed a multi-scale OBIA (object-based image analysis) landslide detection technique to map shallow landslides in the Baichi watershed, Taiwan, after the 2004 Typhoon Aere event. Our semi-automated detection method selected multiple scales through landslide size statistics analysis for successive classification rounds. The detection performance achieved a modified success rate (MSR) of 86.5% with the training dataset and 86% with the validation dataset. This performance level was due to the multi-scale aspect of our methodology, as the MSR for single scale classification was substantially lower, even after spectral difference segmentation, with a maximum of 74%. Our multi-scale technique was capable of detecting landslides of varying sizes, including very small landslides, up to 95 m<sup>2</sup>. The method presented certain limitations: the thresholds we established for classification were specific to the study area, to the landslide type in the study area, and to the spectral characteristics of the satellite image. Because updating site-specific and image-specific classification thresholds is easy with OBIA software, our multi-scale technique is expected to be useful for mapping shallow landslides at watershed level
Search for via the transition at LHCb and factory
It is interesting to study the characteristics of the whole family of
which contains two different heavy flavors. LHC and the proposed factory
provide an opportunity because a large database on the family will be
achieved. and its excited states can be identified via their decay modes.
As suggested by experimentalists, is not easy to be
clearly measured, instead, the trajectories of and occurring in
the decay of () can be unambiguously
identified, thus the measurement seems easier and more reliable, therefore this
mode is more favorable at early running stage of LHCb and the proposed
factory. In this work, we calculate the rate of
in terms of the QCD multipole-expansion and the numerical results indicate that
the experimental measurements with the luminosity of LHC and factory are
feasible.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figures and 4 tables, acceptted by SCIENCE CHINA Physics,
Mechanics & Astronomy (Science in China Series G
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