Recently, three dimensional graphene aerogel (3DGA) supported sulfur microparticles was used as a cathode material for lithium-sulfur batteries, which was considered as one of the most promising next generation rechargeable batteries due to its ultra-high theoretical specific capacity (1675 mAh/g). However, the mechanical strength of 3DGA remains an issue for further application. Herein, a strengthened 3DGA (S3DGA) was achieved by soaking in a low concentration ammonia solution at a relative low temperature. Then the S3DGA loaded sulfur (S3DGA-S) was cut into a round piece and directly used as a cathode without additional binders or conductive additives in Li S batteries. The mechanical strength, microstructure, and electrochemical properties were investigated by compare with a 3DGA prepared without strengthen. The S3DGA-S presented good mechanical strength, excellent capacity retention, and lower electrochemical impedance.
Millimetre-wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is one of the promising techniques for 5G wireless communications and beyond. Low-resolution hybrid precoding using low-resolution phase shifters (PSs) is considered to be promising for mmWave massive MIMO, since it can realize an acceptable performance with significantly reduced energy consumption. However, to realize accurate channel state information acquisition, the traditional channel feedback codebooks that quantize the channel with high resolution are not suitable for low-resolution hybrid precoding. To solve this problem, angle-based codebook is proposed here. In the proposed codebook, the analog codebook is designed based on the channel angle-of-departures (AoDs) and the digital codebook is generated by the random vector quantization. Specifically, the analog codewords are optimized by a neighbour search algorithm under the constraint of low-resolution PSs. These analog codewords are designed to be aligned with channel AoDs. In this way, they can remain unchanged in a much larger time scale, since the angle-coherence time is much longer than the channel-coherence time. Therefore, the channel feedback overhead can be significantly reduced. Both theoretical analyses and simulation results illustrate that the proposed codebook can achieve the acceptable achievable rate performance with low channel feedback overhead.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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