Biomimicry and Aerodynamic Performance of Multi-Flapping Wing Drones

Billingsley, Ethan; Ghommem, Mehdi; Vasconcellos, Rui; Abdelkefi, Abdessattar

doi:10.2514/6.2021-0227

“…Some unique capabilities of the patented drone technology include aerial bird-like flock, bee swarm, and "school" of fish biomimicry that is tailorable to future multidisciplinary engineering solutions. For example, we postulate that the implementation of our doubly-charged negative-ion catalytic desulfurization predictions combined with the Lynchpin TM drone design may offer promising SO2 depollution remedies as well as the profitable commercial mining of elemental Sulfur [1,2,[14][15][16][17][18]23,[28][29][30][31][32][33][34].…”

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confidence: 99%

Dehydro-Sulfurization Utilizing Doubly-Charged Negative Ions of Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2), Graphene-Flake (GR-28), Armchair Carbon Nanotube (CNT 6,6), and Fullerene (C-60) as Catalysts for Depollution, Natural Resource Mining, and the Chemical Functiona

Suggs¹,

Samarakoon²,

Msezane³

2022

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The Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) compound is a primary environmental pollutant worldwide, whereas elemental Sulfur (S) is a global commodity possessing a variety of industrial as well as commercial functions. The chemical relationship between poisonous SO2 and commercially viable elemental S has motivated this investigation using Density Functional Theory calculation of the relative transition state barriers for the 2-step Dehydro-sulfurization oxidation-reduction reaction. Additionally, doubly-charged nanoscale platelet Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2), Armchair (6,6) Carbon Nanotube, 28-atom Graphene nanoflake (GR-28), and Fullerene C-60 are utilized as catalysts. The optimal heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis pathways of the 2-step oxidation-reduction from SO2 to elemental S are further inspired by the biomimicry of the honeybee species multi-step bio-catalysis of pollen conversion to organic honey. Potential applications include environmental depollution, the mining of elemental sulfur, and the functionalization of novel technologies such as the recently patented aerial and amphibious Lynchpin TM drones.

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“…The varying of homogeneous and heterogeneous nanoscale catalysts in each of the two steps of the dehydro-sulfurization reaction is motivated by the novel biomimicry of the fundamental role that the four different enzymes invertase, amylase, glucose oxidase, and catalase play in the bio-catalysis of sucrose conversion to organic honey. We further propose that this study may have future applications in the realm of aero-amphibious drone natural resource mining technologies [13][14][15][16][17].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drone Delivery of Dehydro-Sulfurization Utilizing Doubly-Charged Negative Ions of Nanoscale Catalysts Inspired by the Biomimicry of Bee Species’ Bio-Catalysis of Pollen Conversion to Organic Honey

Suggs

¹

,

Samarakoon

²

,

Msezane

³

2023

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The sulfur dioxide (SO2) compound is a primary environmental pollutant worldwide, whereas elemental sulfur (S) is a global commodity possessing a variety of industrial as well as commercial functions. The chemical relationship between poisonous SO2 and commercially viable elemental S has motivated this investigation using the Density Functional Theory calculation of the relative transition state barriers for the two-step dehydro-sulfurization oxidation–reduction reaction. Additionally, doubly-charged nanoscale platelet molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), armchair (6,6) carbon nanotube, 28-atom graphene nanoflake (GR-28), and fullerene C-60 are utilized as catalysts. The optimal heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis pathways of the two-step oxidation–reduction from SO2 to elemental S are further inspired by the biomimicry of the honeybee species’ multi-step bio-catalysis of pollen conversion to organic honey. Potential applications include environmental depollution, the mining of elemental sulfur, and the functionalization of novel technologies such as the recently patented aerial and amphibious LynchpinTM drones.

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“…The varying of homogeneous and heterogeneous nanoscale catalysts in each of the two steps of dehydro-sulfurization reaction is motivated by the novel biomimicry of the fundamental role that the four different enzymes invertase, amylase, glucose oxidase, and catalase play in the bio-catalysis of sucrose conversion to organic honey. We further propose that this study may have future applications in the realm of aero-amphibious drone natural resource mining technologies [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drone Delivery of Dehydro-Sulfurization Utilizing Doubly-Charged Negative Ions of Nanoscale Catalysts Inspired by the Biomimicry of Bee Species’ Bio-Catalysis of Pollen Conversion to Organic Honey

Suggs¹,

Samarakoon²,

Msezane³

2022

Preprint

0

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The Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) compound is a primary environmental pollutant worldwide, whereas elemental Sulfur (S) is a global commodity possessing a variety of industrial as well as commercial functions. The chemical relationship between poisonous SO2 and commercially viable elemental S has motivated this investigation using Density Functional Theory calculation of the relative transition state barriers for the 2-step Dehydro-sulfurization oxidation-reduction reaction. Additionally, doubly-charged nanoscale platelet Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2), Armchair (6,6) Carbon Nanotube, 28-atom Graphene nanoflake (GR-28), and Fullerene C-60 are utilized as catalysts. The optimal heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis pathways of the 2-step oxidation-reduction from SO2 to elemental S are further inspired by the biomimicry of the honeybee species multi-step bio-catalysis of pollen conversion to organic honey. Potential applications include environmental depollution, the mining of elemental sulfur, and the functionalization of novel technologies such as the recently patented aerial and amphibious Lynchpin TM drones.

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Biomimicry and Aerodynamic Performance of Multi-Flapping Wing Drones

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Dehydro-Sulfurization Utilizing Doubly-Charged Negative Ions of Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2), Graphene-Flake (GR-28), Armchair Carbon Nanotube (CNT 6,6), and Fullerene (C-60) as Catalysts for Depollution, Natural Resource Mining, and the Chemical Functiona

Dehydro-Sulfurization Utilizing Doubly-Charged Negative Ions of Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2), Graphene-Flake (GR-28), Armchair Carbon Nanotube (CNT 6,6), and Fullerene (C-60) as Catalysts for Depollution, Natural Resource Mining, and the Chemical Functiona

Drone Delivery of Dehydro-Sulfurization Utilizing Doubly-Charged Negative Ions of Nanoscale Catalysts Inspired by the Biomimicry of Bee Species’ Bio-Catalysis of Pollen Conversion to Organic Honey

Drone Delivery of Dehydro-Sulfurization Utilizing Doubly-Charged Negative Ions of Nanoscale Catalysts Inspired by the Biomimicry of Bee Species’ Bio-Catalysis of Pollen Conversion to Organic Honey

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