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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
On a class of reductions of Manakov-Santini hierarchy connected with the interpolating system
Using Lax-Sato formulation of Manakov-Santini hierarchy, we introduce a class
of reductions, such that zero order reduction of this class corresponds to dKP
hierarchy, and the first order reduction gives the hierarchy associated with
the interpolating system introduced by Dunajski. We present Lax-Sato form of
reduced hierarchy for the interpolating system and also for the reduction of
arbitrary order. Similar to dKP hierarchy, Lax-Sato equations for (Lax
fuction) due to the reduction split from Lax-Sato equations for (Orlov
function), and the reduced hierarchy for arbitrary order of reduction is
defined by Lax-Sato equations for only. Characterization of the class of
reductions in terms of the dressing data is given. We also consider a waterbag
reduction of the interpolating system hierarchy, which defines
(1+1)-dimensional systems of hydrodynamic type.Comment: 15 pages, revised and extended, characterization of the class of
reductions in terms of the dressing data is give
Thermodynamic properties of tetrameric bond-alternating spin chains
Thermodynamic properties of a tetrameric bond-alternating Heisenberg spin
chain with ferromagnetic-ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic
exchange interactions are studied using the transfer-matrix renormalization
group and compared to experimental measurements. The temperature dependence of
the uniform susceptibility exhibits typical ferrimagnetic features. Both the
uniform and staggered magnetic susceptibilities diverge in the limit ,
indicating that the ground state has both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic
long-range orders. A double-peak structure appears in the temperature
dependence of the specific heat. Our numerical calculation gives a good account
for the temperature and field dependence of the susceptibility, the
magnetization, and the specific heat for Cu(3-Clpy)(N)
(3-Clpy=3-Chloroyridine).Comment: 8 pages, 12 figures; Replaced with final version accepted in Phys.
Rev.
Tunnelling current and emission spectrum of a single electron transistor under optical pumping
Theoretical studies of the tunnelling current and emission spectrum of a
single electron transistor (SET) under optical pumping are presented. The
calculation is performed via Keldysh Green's function method within the
Anderson model with two energy levels. It is found that holes in the quantum
dot (QD) created by optical pumping lead to new channels for the electron
tunnelling from emitter to collector. As a consequence, an electron can tunnel
through the QD via additional channels, characterized by the exciton, trion and
biexciton states. It is found that the tunnelling current as a function of the
gate voltage displays a series of sharp peaks and the spacing between these
peaks can be used to determine the exciton binding energy as well as the
electron-electron Coulomb repulsion energy. In addition, we show that the
single-photon emission associated with the electron-hole recombination in the
exciton complexes formed in the QD can be controlled both electrically and
optically.Comment: 24 pages, 10 figure
Measurement of the Dynamical Structure Factor of a 1D Interacting Fermi Gas
We present measurements of the dynamical structure factor of an
interacting one-dimensional (1D) Fermi gas for small excitation energies. We
use the two lowest hyperfine levels of the Li atom to form a
pseudo-spin-1/2 system whose s-wave interactions are tunable via a Feshbach
resonance. The atoms are confined to 1D by a two-dimensional optical lattice.
Bragg spectroscopy is used to measure a response of the gas to density
("charge") mode excitations at a momentum and frequency . The
spectrum is obtained by varying , while the angle between two laser
beams determines , which is fixed to be less than the Fermi momentum
. The measurements agree well with Tomonaga-Luttinger theory
Studies in the use of cloud type statistics in mission simulation
A study to further improve NASA's global cloud statistics for mission simulation is reported. Regional homogeneity in cloud types was examined; most of the original region boundaries defined for cloud cover amount in previous studies were supported by the statistics on cloud types and the number of cloud layers. Conditionality in cloud statistics was also examined with special emphasis on temporal and spatial dependencies, and cloud type interdependence. Temporal conditionality was found up to 12 hours, and spatial conditionality up to 200 miles; the diurnal cycle in convective cloudiness was clearly evident. As expected, the joint occurrence of different cloud types reflected the dynamic processes which form the clouds. Other phases of the study improved the cloud type statistics for several region and proposed a mission simulation scheme combining the 4-dimensional atmospheric model, sponsored by MSFC, with the global cloud model
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
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