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Nickel−Gallium-Catalyzed Electrochemical Reduction of CO_2 to Highly Reduced Products at Low Overpotentials
We report the electrocatalytic reduction of CO_2 to the highly reduced C_2 products, ethylene and ethane, as well as to the fully reduced C_1 product, methane, on three different phases of nickel–gallium (NiGa, Ni_3Ga, and Ni_5Ga_3) films prepared by drop-casting. In aqueous bicarbonate electrolytes at neutral pH, the onset potential for methane, ethylene, and ethane production on all three phases was found to be −0.48 V versus the reversible hydrogen electrode (RHE), among the lowest onset potentials reported to date for the production of C_2 products from CO_2. Similar product distributions and onset potentials were observed for all three nickel–gallium stoichiometries tested. The onset potential for the reduction of CO_2 to C_2 products at low current densities catalyzed by nickel–gallium was >250 mV more positive than that of polycrystalline copper, and approximately equal to that of single crystals of copper, which have some of the lowest overpotentials to date for the reduction of CO_2 to C_2 products and methane. The nickel–gallium films also reduced CO to ethylene, ethane, and methane, consistent with a CO_2 reduction mechanism that first involves the reduction of CO2 to CO. Isotopic labeling experiments with ^(13)CO_2 confirmed that the detected products were produced exclusively by the reduction of CO_2
Molecular Functionalization of Graphite Surfaces: Basal Plane versus Step Edge Electrochemical Activity
Long optical path length thin-layer spectroelectrochemistry. Quantitation of adsorbed aromatic molecules at platinum
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Downlink Macro-Diversity in Cellular Networks
In this paper, we study the potential benefit of base-station (BS) cooperation for downlink transmission in a modified Wyner-type multicell model. Besides the dirty-paper-coding (DPC) precoder, we also analyze several linear precoding schemes, including co-phasing, zero-forcing (ZF) and MMSE precoders. For the nonfading case, analytical sum rate expression is obtained for each scheme. In networks of a large number N of cells, a high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) asymptotic gap is shown between the sum rate performances of DPC and ZF precoders. Moreover, the MMSE precoder sum rate expression in large networks indicates different behaviors of MMSE precoder in different SNR regimes: in the SNR > N 2 regime, it coincides with the ZF precoder, while, in the SNR < N 2 regime, it coincides with the co-phasing precoder. For the Rayleigh fading case, Monte-Carlo simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of linear precoding schemes with the proposed user selection criterion
Neural RF SLAM for unsupervised positioning and mapping with channel state information
We present a neural network architecture for jointly learning user locations
and environment mapping up to isometry, in an unsupervised way, from channel
state information (CSI) values with no location information. The model is based
on an encoder-decoder architecture. The encoder network maps CSI values to the
user location. The decoder network models the physics of propagation by
parametrizing the environment using virtual anchors. It aims at reconstructing,
from the encoder output and virtual anchor location, the set of time of flights
(ToFs) that are extracted from CSI using super-resolution methods. The neural
network task is set prediction and is accordingly trained end-to-end. The
proposed model learns an interpretable latent, i.e., user location, by just
enforcing a physics-based decoder. It is shown that the proposed model achieves
sub-meter accuracy on synthetic ray tracing based datasets with single anchor
SISO setup while recovering the environment map up to 4cm median error in a 2D
environment and 15cm in a 3D environmentComment: Accepted at IEEE International Conference on Communications 2022.
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Effect of Zn Additives to the Electrolyte on the Corrosion and Cycle Life of Some  AB 5 H  x Metal Hydride Electrodes
Reversibly Adsorbed Monolayers on Microelectrodes: Effect of Potential on the Adsorption Thermodynamics
Voltammetric and Scanning Force Microscopic Investigation of Anthraquinone Films Spontaneously Adsorbed on Ordered Graphite
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