Thermal response behavior of transparent silver nanowire/PEDOT:PSS film heaters are intensively studied for manipulating heating temperature, response time, and power consumption. Influences of substrate heat capacity, heat transfer coefficient between air and heater, sheet resistance and dimension of Ag nanowire film, on the thermal response are investigated from thermodynamic analysis. Suggestion is given for practical applications that if other parameters are fixed, Ag nanowire coverage can be utilized as an effective parameter to adjust the thermal response. The heat transfer coefficient plays opposite roles on thermal response speed and achievable steady temperature. A value of ≈32 W m(-2) K(-1) is obtained from transient process analysis after correcting it by considering heater resistance variation during heating tests. Guidance of designing heaters with a given response time is provided by forming Ag nanowire film with a suitable sheet resistance on substrate of appropriate material and a certain thickness. Thermal response tests of designed Ag heaters are performed to show higher heating temperature, shorter response time, and lower power consumption (179 °C cm(2) W(-1)) than ITO/FTO heaters, as well as homogeneous temperature distribution and stability for repeated use. Potential applications of the Ag heaters in window defogging, sensing and thermochromism are manifested.
Binder-free LiCoO(2) -SACNT cathodes with excellent flexibility and conductivity are obtained by constructing a continuous three-dimensional super-aligned carbon nanotube (SACNT) framework with embedded LiCoO(2) particles. These binder-free cathodes display much better cycling stability, greater rate performance, and higher energy density than classical cathodes with binder. Various functional binder-free SACNT composites can be mass produced by the ultrasonication and co-deposition method described in this paper.
Black
orthorhombic (B-γ) CsSnI3 with reduced biotoxicity
and environmental impact and excellent optoelectronic properties is
being considered as a promising eco-friendly candidate for high-performing
perovskite solar cells (PSCs). A major challenge in a large-scale
implementation of CsSnI3 PSCs includes the rapid transformation
of Sn2+ to Sn4+ (within a few minutes) under
an ambient-air condition. Here, we demonstrate that ambient-air stable
B-γ CsSnI3 PSCs can be fabricated by incorporating N,N′-methylenebis(acrylamide) (MBAA)
into the perovskite layer and by using poly(3-hexylthiophene) as the
hole transporting material. The lone electron pairs of −NH
and −CO units of MBAA are designed to form coordination bonding
with Sn2+ in the B-γ CsSnI3, resulting
in a reduced defect (Sn4+) density and better stability
under multiple conditions for the perovskite light absorber. After
a modification, the highest power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 7.50%
is documented under an ambient-air condition for the unencapsulated
CsSnI3-MBAA PSC. Furthermore, the MBAA-modified devices
sustain 60.2%, 76.5%, and 58.4% of their initial PCEs after 1440 h
of storage in an inert condition, after 120 h of storage in an ambient-air
condition, and after 120 h of 1 Sun continuous illumination, respectively.
Novel fluorescent organic nanoparticles based on self-polymerization of dopamine and polyethyleneimine were prepared and utilized for biological imaging applications.
In order to distinguish the influences of moisture and aging on the frequency domain dielectric response of oil-paper insulation and better apply frequency domain spectroscopy (FDS) to assess the insulation condition of power transformers, the oil-paper insulation samples with different moisture contents and different aging states were prepared in the laboratory. The FDS of the samples were tested and a group of characteristic parameters were extracted from dissipation factor (tanδ) curves which could be used to assess the moisture content and aging states of oil-paper insulation respectively. The quantitative relationship among characteristic parameters, degree of polymerization (DP) and moisture contents (K m.c ) was accurately established. The observations show that the proposed characteristic parameters are sensitive to the moisture in 10 -3 -10 2 Hz, while the aging states influence the characteristic parameters in 10 -3 -10 -1 Hz. Meanwhile, an exponential relationship equation which could be used to assess the oil-paper insulation condition was established among the characteristic parameters, DP and the moisture content. Finally, the evaluation technique proposed in this paper was used to diagnose the insulation condition of several field transformers in this way, and its validity was preliminary and reasonably verified.Index Terms -Frequency domain spectroscopy, oil-paper insulation, moisture content, aging state, dissipation factor, quantitative analysis.
Recently, MnBi 2 Te 4 has been demonstrated to be an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator and the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect was observed in exfoliated MnBi 2 Te 4 flakes. Here, we used molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) to grow MnBi 2 Te 4 films with thickness down to 1 septuple layer (SL) and performed thickness-dependent transport measurements. We observed a nonsquare hysteresis loop in the antiferromagnetic state for films with thickness greater than 2 SL. The hysteresis loop can be separated into two AH components. We demonstrated that one AH component with the larger coercive field is from the dominant MnBi 2 Te 4 phase, whereas the other AH component with the smaller coercive field is from the minor Mn-doped Bi 2 Te 3 phase. The extracted AH component of the MnBi 2 Te 4 phase shows a clear even− odd layer-dependent behavior. Our studies reveal insights on how to optimize the MBE growth conditions to improve the quality of MnBi 2 Te 4 films.
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