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Energy-efficient CO2 hydrogenation with fast response using photoexcitation of CO2 adsorbed on metal catalysts.
Many heterogeneous catalytic reactions occur at high temperatures, which may cause large energy costs, poor safety, and thermal degradation of catalysts. Here, we propose a light-assisted surface reaction, which catalyze the surface reaction using both light and heat as an energy source. Conventional metal catalysts such as ruthenium, rhodium, platinum, nickel, and copper were tested for CO2 hydrogenation, and ruthenium showed the most distinct change upon light irradiation. CO2 was strongly adsorbed onto ruthenium surface, forming hybrid orbitals. The band gap energy was reduced significantly upon hybridization, enhancing CO2 dissociation. The light-assisted CO2 hydrogenation used only 37% of the total energy with which the CO2 hydrogenation occurred using only thermal energy. The CO2 conversion could be turned on and off completely with a response time of only 3 min, whereas conventional thermal reaction required hours. These unique features can be potentially used for on-demand fuel production with minimal energy input
The competition number of a graph and the dimension of its hole space
The competition graph of a digraph D is a (simple undirected) graph which has
the same vertex set as D and has an edge between x and y if and only if there
exists a vertex v in D such that (x,v) and (y,v) are arcs of D. For any graph
G, G together with sufficiently many isolated vertices is the competition graph
of some acyclic digraph. The competition number k(G) of G is the smallest
number of such isolated vertices. In general, it is hard to compute the
competition number k(G) for a graph G and it has been one of important research
problems in the study of competition graphs to characterize a graph by its
competition number. Recently, the relationship between the competition number
and the number of holes of a graph is being studied. A hole of a graph is a
cycle of length at least 4 as an induced subgraph. In this paper, we conjecture
that the dimension of the hole space of a graph is no smaller than the
competition number of the graph. We verify this conjecture for various kinds of
graphs and show that our conjectured inequality is indeed an equality for
connected triangle-free graphs.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
Type II Anyon Superconductivity
Assuming that the superconductivity which is described by the low energy
effective action of the anyon system may be type II, we discuss its
characteristics. We also study physical properties of the Chern-Simons
vortices, which may be formed as the external magnetic field is applied to the
system, such as their statistics, the free energy of single vortex and the
interaction energy between two vortices.Comment: 12 pages, REVTEX, no figure
Adaptive Duty Cycling MAC Protocols Using Closed-Loop Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
The fundamental design goal of wireless sensor MAC protocols is to minimize unnecessary power consumption of the sensor nodes, because of its stringent resource constraints and ultra-power limitation. In existing MAC protocols in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), duty cycling, in which each node periodically cycles between the active and sleep states, has been introduced to reduce unnecessary energy consumption. Existing MAC schemes, however, use a fixed duty cycling regardless of multi-hop communication and traffic fluctuations. On the other hand, there is a tradeoff between energy efficiency and delay caused by duty cycling mechanism in multi-hop communication and existing MAC approaches only tend to improve energy efficiency with sacrificing data delivery delay. In this paper, we propose two different MAC schemes (ADS-MAC and ELA-MAC) using closed-loop control in order to achieve both energy savings and minimal delay in wireless sensor networks. The two proposed MAC schemes, which are synchronous and asynchronous approaches, respectively, utilize an adaptive timer and a successive preload frame with closed-loop control for adaptive duty cycling. As a result, the analysis and the simulation results show that our schemes outperform existing schemes in terms of energy efficiency and delivery delay
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