Abstract:
A method of forming a carbon coating includes heat treating lithium transition metal composite oxide Li0.9+aMbM′cNdOe, in an atmosphere of a gas mixture including carbon dioxide and compound CnH(2n+2−a)[OH]a, wherein n is 1 to 20 and a is 0 or 1, or compound CnH(2n), wherein n is 2 to 6, wherein 0≦a≦1.6, 0≦b≦2, 0≦c≦2, 0≦d≦2, b, c, and d are not simultaneously equal to 0, e ranges from 1 to 4, M and M′ are different from each other and are selected from Ni, Co, Mn, Mo, Cu, Fe, Cr, Ge, Al, Mg, Zr, W, Ru, Rh, Pd, Os, Ir, Pt, Sc, Ti, V, Ga, Nb, Ag, Hf, Au, Cs, B, and Ba, and N is different from M and M′ and is selected from Ni, Co, Mn, Mo, Cu, Fe, Cr, Ge, Al, Mg, Zr, W, Ru, Rh, Pd, Os, Ir, Pt, Sc, Ti, V, Ga, Nb, Ag, Hf, Au, Cs, B, Ba, and a combination thereof, or selected from Ti, V, Si, B, F, S, and P, and at least one of the M, M′, and N comprises Ni, Co, Mn, Mo, Cu, or Fe.
Abstract:
Treating a fluid may include using a flow-through capacitor that includes first and second electrodes and a flow path between the first and second electrodes, wherein an acidic aqueous solution is supplied to the capacitor to flow through the flow path while a reverse potential difference is formed across the first and second electrodes, and thereby deposits formed in the flow-through capacitor may be removed.
Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a spacer structure that is configured to be disposed between a pair of electrodes in a capacitive deionization apparatus so as to provide a space for flowing a fluid therethrough. The spacer structure includes a copolymer prepared by copolymerizing a mixture of a polyurethane backbone including a carboxyl group or a sulfonic acid group, an ion conductive monomer including a carboxyl group and a cation exchange group, and a second polymer including a functional group that reacts with the carboxyl group or sulfonic acid group and forms a cross-linking bond with the polyurethane backbone.
Abstract:
A mesoporous carbon composite material includes mesoporous carbon, metal nanoparticles distributed on the mesoporous carbon, and phosphorus on the mesoporous carbon. An electronic device includes an electrode including the mesoporous carbon composite material. A method of producing a mesoporous carbon composite metal includes impregnating mesoporous silica with a carbon precursor solution, forming a carbon silica composite by heat-treating the mesoporous silica impregnated with the carbon precursor solution, and removing silica from the carbon silica composite. The carbon precursor solution includes a phosphorous-containing carbon precursor, a metal-containing salt, a solvent, and optionally a carbonization catalyst.
Abstract:
A metal suboxide having a specific surface area of greater than or equal to about 1.5 m2/g is prepared by preparing a metal suboxide precursor, and heat-treating the metal suboxide precursor.
Abstract:
An ion exchanger according to a non-limiting embodiment may include an open cell polymer support and a microporous polymer matrix charged within the open cell polymer support. The microporous polymer matrix includes an ion conductive polymer. The ion conductive polymer may be obtained by polymerizing monomers having at least one ion exchange functional group and at least one cross-linkable functional group with a cross-linking agent having at least two cross-linkable functional groups.
Abstract:
A capacitive deionization electrode may include a conductive material and a polymer on a surface of the conductive material. The polymer may have at least one functional group in a single polymer chain.
Abstract:
A photoelectrochemical cell includes a compartment divider configured to divide a container into a first compartment and a second compartment, the compartment divider having a first surface facing the first compartment and a second surface facing the second compartment, a first electrolyte in the first compartment, a second electrolyte in the second compartment, a first electrode on the first surface of the compartment divider, a second electrode on the second surface of the compartment divider, a first photocatalyst layer on the first electrode, a second photocatalyst layer on the second electrode, and a catalyst passage connecting the first compartment and the second compartment, the catalyst passage configured to control the first electrolyte and the second electrolyte to flow in one direction.
Abstract:
A method of selectively modifying a structure including preparing a structure including a nano-sized through-pore, filling the nano-sized through-pore with a surfactant, removing a portion of the surfactant from both ends of the nano-sized through-pore to expose a portion of an internal surface of the nano-sized through-pore, modifying the exposed internal surface of the nano-sized through-pore with a first compound, removing the surfactant from the nano-sized through-pore having the internal surface modified with the first compound to expose an internal surface that remains unmodified with the first compound, and modifying with a second compound the exposed internal surface without being modified with the first compound, the second compound being different from the first compound.
Abstract:
Electrically regenerable water softening apparatuses, and methods of operating the same, include a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; a first electrolyte chamber, a first cation exchange membrane, an ion exchange chamber, a second cation exchange membrane, and a second electrolyte chamber which are interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; an inflow water flow channel configured to introduce inflow water to the ion exchange chamber; a first treated water flow channel configured to discharge treated water softened in the ion exchange chamber; a second treated water flow channel connecting at least one chamber selected from the first electrolyte chamber and the second electrolyte chamber with an ion exchange chamber; and a current applier configured to apply current to the first electrode and the second electrode. The ion exchange chamber is filled with a cation exchanger.