Here, highly transparent, conductive, and stable ZnO/Ag/ZnO electrodes on transparent rigid glass and flexible substrates were prepared by facile, room-temperature magnetron sputtering, in which the continuous Ag layers were obtained by means of oxidization-induced effect under an Ar atmosphere with tiny amounts of O2. The results showed an appropriate amount of O2 was beneficial to form contin...

Most Li-O2 batteries suffer from sluggish kinetics during oxygen evolution reactions (OERs). To overcome this drawback, we take the lesson from other catalysis researches that showed improved catalytic activities by employing metal alloy catalysts. Such research effort has led us to find Pt3Co nanoparticles as an effective OER catalyst in Li-O2 batteries. The superior catalytic activity was ref...

We have synthesized single crystalline ZnO nanowires by thermal evaporation method and fabricated individual ZnO nanowire field effect transistors (FETs) to investigate their electrical properties. ZnO nanowires are strongly affected by O2 molecules in ambient. For example, surface defects such as oxygen vacancies act as adsorption sites of O2 molecules, and the chemisorption of O2 molecules de...

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) has a number of uses in catalysis, photochemistry, and sensing that are linked to the reducibility of the oxide. Usually, bridging oxygen (Obr) vacancies are assumed to cause the Ti3d defect state in the band gap of rutile TiO2(110). From high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy and photoelectron spectroscopy measurements, we propose that Ti interstitials in the nea...

Fe films in the 0.4<u<4.7 ML ~monolayer! coverage range were deposited on a Mo~110! substrate at temperatures between 300 K and 700 K, under ultrahigh vacuum conditions. The adsorption of CO, CO2 , H2O, and O2 onto these films from the residual gas within the Ultrahigh vacuum system has been studied using scanning tunneling microscopy, low-energy electron diffraction, and Auger electron spectro...

a significant reduction in arterial blood oxygen saturation during fiberoptic bronchoscopy has been proved but it is not yet known whether all patients need supplemental oxygen during this procedure. the aim of study is to examine the relationship between peak expiratory flow rate (pefr) before bronchoscopy and oxygen desaturation during bronchoscopy. measurement of pefr (% predicted) performed...

The adsorption performance of Fe/ZSM-5 catalyst has been investigated in the SCR of NOx with propylene as the reducing agent. Freudlich equation was found to fit the adsorption isotherm satisfactorily if the system dispersion is considered. Fe/ZSM-5 catalyst showed reasonable NO adsorption capacity. The study on the influence of reaction temperature, gas space velocity and gas composition on th...