The protection of current collectors against anodic dissolution at high potential has been identified as crucial for next generation energy and safe lithium-ion batteries. Herein, a systematic study the electrochemical behavior two grades aluminum performed in five representative liquid electrolytes. Analysis data microscopy images have notably shown that appear to be stable up 5 V vs. Li+/Li p...

A low-carbon future demands more affordable batteries utilizing abundant elements with sustainable end-of-life battery management. Despite the economic and environmental advantages of Li-MnO2 batteries, their application so far has been largely constrained to primary batteries. Here, we demonstrate that one major limiting factors preventing stable cycling Mn dissolution, can be effectively miti...

High energy and power densities are the greatest challenge for all-solid-state lithium batteries due to the poor interfacial compatibility between electrodes and electrolytes as well as low lithium ion transfer kinetics in solid materials. Intimate contact at the cathode-solid electrolyte interface and high ionic conductivity of solid electrolyte are crucial to realizing high-performance all-so...

Ultra-low delay sensitive applications can a‚ord delay only at the level of msec. An example of this application class are the Networked Music Performance (NMP) systems that describe a live music performance by geographically separate musicians over the Internet. Œe present work proposes a novel architecture for NMP systems, where the key-innovation is the close collaboration between the networ...

In order to apply advanced carbon black with high surface area Li-ion battery (LIB) electrode, the effect of polymer dispersant addition into raw materials suspension on LIB performance was investigated. Four kinds dispersants, polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP), alcohol (PVA), acetate (PVAc) and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) were used for dispersion particles in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) sl...

Vertebrate skeletal muscles contain muscle fibers of several types, which can be broadly classified as slow or fast fibers, on the basis of differences in contraction speeds, metabolic activities, and motoneuron innervation. We have examined the potential roles of growth factors of members of the hedgehog and TGF-ß gene families in the formation of slow muscle fibers including muscle pioneer (M...

The use of statistical complexity metrics has yielded a number of successful methodologies to differentiate and identify signals from complex systems where the underlying dynamics cannot be calculated. The Mori-Zwanzig framework from statistical mechanics forms the basis for the generalized non-Markov parameter (NMP). The NMP has been used to successfully analyze signals in a diverse set of com...

OBJECTIVES The sensitivity of voided urinary cytology has been reported as very low. In this study, we investigated the sensitivity and clinical utility of voided urinary cytology in the detection of various grades and stages of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder compared with the urinary nuclear matrix protein-22 (NMP-22) qualitative assay. METHODS From March 2004 to April 2006...