88 research outputs found
Stress Analysis of Electrode Particles in Lithium-Ion Batteries
This chapter reviews several theoretical models that are used to compute the stress fields inside the electrode particles of lithium-ion batteries during discharging/charging process and provides a guideline for researchers to choose the appropriate models. Due to the limitation of the existing models, a general electrochemo-mechanical framework is presented to model the concentration and stress fields of the electrode during the phase transformation. The interaction between stresses fields and phase transformation is addressed, which is a novel discovery in the research of lithium-ion batteries. The electrodes with different sizes and geometries are compared. The structural and electrochemical advantages of hollow core-shell structure particles are highlighted. The present work could help to accurate predict stress profile in electrode particles with different sizes, geometries, and charging operations and contributes to finding the optimal electrode. Therefore, this chapter is helpful for the material and structure design of electrodes of lithium-ion batteries
Switchable Imbibition in Nanoporous Gold
Spontaneous imbibition enables the elegant propelling of nano-flows because
of the dominance of capillarity at small length scales. The imbibition kinetics
are, however, solely determined by the static geometry of the porous host, the
capillarity, and the fluidity of the imbibed liquid. This makes active control
particularly challenging. Here, we show for aqueous electrolyte imbibition in
nanoporous gold that the fluid flow can be reversibly switched on and off
through electric potential control of the solid-liquid interfacial tension,
i.e. we can accelerate the imbibition front, stop it, and have it proceed at
will. Simultaneous measurements of the mass flux and the electrical current
allow us to document simple scaling laws for the imbibition kinetics, and to
explore the charge flow dynamics in the metallic nanopores. Our findings
demonstrate that the high electric conductivity along with the pathways for
ionic and/or fluid transport render nanoporous elemental gold a versatile,
accurately controllable electro-capillary pump and flow sensor for minute
amounts of liquids with exceptionally low operating voltages.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figure
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Strong Shock Waves Propagating in Dense Deuterium With the Effect of Excited Electrons
We present a molecular dynamics simulation of shock waves propagating in
dense deuterium with the electron force field method [J. T. Su and W. A.
Goddard, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 185003 (2007)], which explicitly takes the
excitation of electrons into consideration. Non-equilibrium features associated
with the excitation of electrons are systematically investigated. We show that
chemical bonds in D molecules lead to a more complicated shock wave
structure near the shock front, compared with the results of classical
molecular dynamics simulation. Charge separation can bring about accumulation
of net charges on the large scale, instead of the formation of a localized
dipole layer, which might cause extra energy for the shock wave to propagate.
In addition, the simulations also display that molecular dissociation at the
shock front is the major factor corresponding to the "bump" structure in the
principal Hugoniot. These results could help to build a more realistic picture
of shock wave propagation in fuel materials commonly used in the inertial
confinement fusion
Dynamics of bond breaking and formation in polyethylene near shock front
In a systematic study of shock wave propagating in crystalline polyethylenes using molecular dynamics method and the electron force field (eFF) potential, we show that microscopic structure of shock front is significantly affected by the anisotropy of long carbon chain and the bond breaking and recombination dynamics. However, macroscopic properties measured in Hugoniot experiments, such as compression ratio and shock velocity, are not sensitive to carbon chain anisotropy and bond dynamics. Our work also display that hydrogen molecules are formed when the piston speed is in the region between 10 km/s and 30 km/s. However, carbon-hydrogen pair distribution function does not display an indication of carbon-hydrogen phase segregation
Compatible composition profiles and critical sizes of alloyed quantum dots
The Eshelby formalism for inclusion/inhomogeneity problems is extended to the nano-scale at which surface/interface effects become important. The interior and exterior Eshelby tensors for a spherical inhomogeneous inclusion with the interface stress effect subjected to an arbitrary uniform eigenstrain embedded in an infinite alien matrix, and the stress concentration tensors for a spherical inhomogeneity subjected to an arbitrary remote uniform stress field are obtained. Unlike their counterparts at the macro-scale, the Eshelby and stress concentration tensors are, in general, not uniform inside the inhomogeneity but are position-dependent. They have the property of radial transverse isotropy. It is also shown that the size-dependence of the Eshelby tensors and the stress concentration tensors follow very simple scaling laws. Finally, the Eshelby formula to calculate the strain energy in the presence of the interface effect is given
Dynamics of bond breaking and formation in polyethylene near shock front
In a systematic study of shock wave propagating in crystalline polyethylenes using molecular dynamics method and the electron force field (eFF) potential, we show that microscopic structure of shock front is significantly affected by the anisotropy of long carbon chain and the bond breaking and recombination dynamics. However, macroscopic properties measured in Hugoniot experiments, such as compression ratio and shock velocity, are not sensitive to carbon chain anisotropy and bond dynamics. Our work also display that hydrogen molecules are formed when the piston speed is in the region between 10 km/s and 30 km/s. However, carbon-hydrogen pair distribution function does not display an indication of carbon-hydrogen phase segregation
Elevated glutamate, glutamine and GABA levels and reduced taurine level in a schizophrenia model using an in vitro proton nuclear magnetic resonance method
Accumulating evidence suggests that brain metabolic changes may be associated with the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Both and studies have found glutamatergic and GABAergic abnormalities in different brain regions of individuals with schizophrenia. We report a longitudinal behavioral study in a methylazoxymethanol acetate (MAM) rat model of schizophrenia at three different age periods: prepuberty, late-puberty and early-adulthood. MAM-treated rats showed stable hypolocomotive activity, anxiety and cognitive deficits from late-puberty to early-adulthood. Therefore we detected the metabolites changes of adult MAM-treated rats using an proton nuclear magnetic resonance ( H-NMR) method. In the MAM-treated rats, glutamate was increased in the thalamus and hypothalamus, glutamine was increased in the hippocampus and GABA was increased in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, while taurine showed a decrease in the striatum, temporal cortex and parietal cortex. These abnormalities may be helped further understanding the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. [Abstract copyright: AJTR Copyright © 2019.
Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search
Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical research.Peer reviewe
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