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Ammonia has strong poisoning effects on cathode catalyst layers of proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, but the poisoning mechanism is still unclear. In this study, all-atom molecular dynamics simulations are employed to investigate…
Coarse (<=20 micron) titanium particles were deposited on low-carbon steel substrates by cathodic electrophoretic deposition (EPD) with ethanol as suspension medium and poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride) (PDADMAC) as polymeric charging…
Environmental pollutants are a source for reliability issues across data center and telecommunications equipment. A primary driver of this is the transport and deposition of particle matter (PM$_{2.5}$, PM$_{10}$) on printed circuit boards,…
Ionic transport in nano- to sub-nano-scale pores is highly dependent on translocation barriers and potential wells. These features in the free-energy landscape are primarily the result of ion dehydration and electrostatic interactions. For…
Alternative synthetic fuels can be produced by renewable energy sources and represent a potential route for solving long-term energy storage. Among them, oxygenated fuels have the advantage of significantly reducing pollutant emissions and…
The lithium transport mechanism in ternary polymer electrolytes, consisting of PEO/LiTFSI and various fractions of the ionic liquid N-methyl-N-propylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonimide, are investigated by means of MD…
This paper presents a hierarchical multivariable control and constraint management approach for an air supply system for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) system. The control objectives are to track desired compressor mass…
The extent of phase separation and water percolation in sulfonated membranes are the key to their performance in fuel cells. Toward this, the effect of hydration on the morphology and transport characteristics of sulfonated poly(ether ether…
The first comprehensive study of electron gains and losses in hypersonic air flows including the full coupling between the non-neutral plasma sheaths and the quasi-neutral plasma flow is here presented. Such is made possible by the use of…
Under rocket-relevant conditions, real-gas effects and thermodynamic non-idealities are prominent features of the flow field. Experimental investigations indicate that phase separation can occur depending on the operating conditions and on…
Polyamide membranes, such as nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membranes, are widely used for water desalination and purification. However, the mechanisms of solute transport and solute rejection due to charge interactions remain…
Composite materials based on Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) and CoFe$_2$O$_4$ magnetic nanoparticles (NP) were synthesized by chemical oxidative polymerization with varying monomer and surfactant (DBSA) concentrations, and were…
Polymer electrolytes typically exhibit diminished ionic conductivity due to the presence of correlation effects between the cations and anions. Microscopically, transient ionic aggregates, e.g. {\it ion-pairs}, {\it ion-triplets} or higher…
Eigenvalues and wave functions describing free electron gases in toroidal shells are determined using a basis set expansion natural to the system geometry. Couplings between azimuthal and poloidal modes are found to be appreciable at lower…
Plasma boundary layers are susceptible to electrostatic instabilities driven by ion flows in presheaths and, when present, these instabilities can influence transport. In plasmas with a single species of positive ion, ion-acoustic…
It is important to measure in-plane conductivity of Nafion membrane for fuel cell, but this target is generally inhibited by measuring system with heterogeneous interfaces and immature electrochemical measurements. This paper simply used…
Lithium-ion batteries rely on particulate porous electrodes to realize high performance, especially the fast-charging capability. To minimize the particle-wise reaction heterogeneities that may lead to local hot spots, deeper understandings…
Correlations between electrical and thermal conduction in polymer composites are blurred due to the complex contribution of charge and heat carriers at the nanoscale junctions of filler particles. Conflicting reports on the lack or…
In few-cycle pulses, the exact value of the carrier-envelope phase difference (CEPD) has a pronounced influence on the ionization dynamics of atoms and molecules. We show that for atoms in circularly polarized light, a change in the CEPD is…
A three-dimensional model of a single-layer lithium-ion pouch cell is presented which couples conventional porous electrode theory describing cell electrochemical behaviour with an energy balance describing cell thermal behaviour.…