The mesoporous α-Fe2O3/cyclized-polyacrylonitrile (C-PAN) composite was synthesized by a rapid and facile two-step method. The electrode was fabricated without conductive carbon addictive and employed as anode for lithium-ion batteries. Results demonstrate that building a conformal coating of a C-PAN network can provide a strong adhesion with active materials and contribute excellent electronic conductivity to the electrode, which can relieve the huge volume changes during a lithiation/delithiation process and accelerate the charge transfer rate. The material exhibited high reversible capacity of ca. 996 mAh g(-1) after 100 cycles at 0.2C, 773 mAh g(-1) at 1C and 655 mAh g(-1) at 2C, respectively, showing well-enhanced cycling performance and superior rate capacity, and also exhibiting significantly improved power density and energy density compared to the traditional graphite materials. Our results provide a facile and efficient way to enhance the performance of α-Fe2O3 anode material, which also can be applied for other oxide anode materials.
Near-interface oxide traps severely affect the voltage stability of silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor devices. In this work, electron cyclotron resonance microwave nitrogen plasma and electron cyclotron resonance microwave nitrogen-hydrogen-mixed plasma were used to passivate near-interface oxide traps in silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors. An improved low-temperature midgap voltage drift method was proposed to evaluate the voltage stability of silicon carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors. Results showed that the effect of passivating near-interface oxide traps and voltage stability could be improved by increasing the nitrogen passivation time. However, excessive nitrogen passivation created deep-level interface traps that degraded the interface quality, and a small amount of hydrogen could passivate the deep-level traps produced by the excess nitrogen. As a result, the samples subjected to the passivation process with the nitrogen-hydrogen-mixed plasma had a smaller flat-band voltage drift and more stable carbide metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors than the samples subjected to nitrogen plasma. However, the excessive introduction of hydrogen also produced additional defects, consequently making the stability of the metal-oxide-semiconductor devices sensitive to the time of the passivation process by nitrogen-hydrogen-mixed plasma. Therefore, the suitable time of mixed plasma passivation is crucial to the improvement of the stability of devices.
Understanding genetic characteristics in rice populations will facilitate exploring evolutionary mechanisms and gene cloning. Numerous molecular markers have been utilized in linkage map construction and quantitative trait locus (QTL) mappings. However, segregation-distorted markers were rarely considered, which prevented understanding genetic characteristics in many populations. In this study, we designed a 384-marker GoldenGate SNP array to genotype 283 recombination inbred lines (RILs) derived from 93-11 and Nipponbare Oryza sativa crosses. Using 294 markers that were highly polymorphic between parents, a linkage map with a total genetic distance of 1,583.2 cM was constructed, including 231 segregation-distorted markers. This linkage map was consistent with maps generated by other methods in previous studies. In total, 85 significant quantitative trait loci (QTLs) with phenotypic variation explained (PVE) values≥5% were identified. Among them, 34 QTLs were overlapped with reported genes/QTLs relevant to corresponding traits, and 17 QTLs were overlapped with reported sterility-related genes/QTLs. Our study provides evidence that segregation-distorted markers can be used in linkage map construction and QTL mapping. Moreover, genetic information resulting from this study will help us to understand recombination events and segregation distortion. Furthermore, this study will facilitate gene cloning and understanding mechanism of inter-subspecies hybrid sterility and correlations with important agronomic traits in rice.
GoldenGate SNP assay, linkage map, segregation-distorted markers, QTLsCitation:
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