Purpose-Built Anisotropic Metal Oxide Material:  3D Highly Oriented Microrod Array of ZnO

2001 ◽  
Vol 105 (17) ◽  
pp. 3350-3352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lionel Vayssieres ◽  
Karin Keis ◽  
Sten-Eric Lindquist ◽  
Anders Hagfeldt

Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 362
Author(s):  
Yabibal Getahun Dessie ◽  
Qi Hong ◽  
Bachirou Guene Lougou ◽  
Juqi Zhang ◽  
Boshu Jiang ◽  
...  

Metal oxide materials are known for their ability to store thermochemical energy through reversible redox reactions. Metal oxides provide a new category of materials with exceptional performance in terms of thermochemical energy storage, reaction stability and oxygen-exchange and uptake capabilities. However, these characteristics are predicated on the right combination of the metal oxide candidates. In this study, metal oxide materials consisting of pure oxides, like cobalt(II) oxide, manganese(II) oxide, and iron(II, III) oxide (Fe3O4), and mixed oxides, such as (100 wt.% CoO, 100 wt.% Fe3O4, 100 wt.% CoO, 25 wt.% MnO + 75 wt.% CoO, 75 wt.% MnO + 25 wt.% CoO) and 50 wt.% MnO + 50.wt.% CoO), which was subjected to a two-cycle redox reaction, was proposed. The various mixtures of metal oxide catalysts proposed were investigated through the thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), energy dispersive X-ray (EDS), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analyses. The effect of argon (Ar) and oxygen (O2) at different gas flow rates (20, 30, and 50 mL/min) and temperature at thermal charging step and thermal discharging step (30–1400 °C) during the redox reaction were investigated. It was revealed that on the overall, 50 wt.% MnO + 50 wt.% CoO oxide had the most stable thermal stability and oxygen exchange to uptake ratio (0.83 and 0.99 at first and second redox reaction cycles, respectively). In addition, 30 mL/min Ar–20 mL/min O2 gas flow rate further increased the proposed (Fe,Co,Mn)Ox mixed oxide catalyst’s cyclic stability and oxygen uptake ratio. SEM revealed that the proposed (Fe,Co,Mn)Ox material had a smooth surface and consisted of polygonal-shaped structures. Thus, the proposed metallic oxide material can effectively be utilized for high-density thermochemical energy storage purposes. This study is of relevance to the power engineering industry and academia.



2015 ◽  
Vol 1729 ◽  
pp. 53-58
Author(s):  
Brian L. Geist ◽  
Dmitri Strukov ◽  
Vladimir Kochergin

ABSTRACTResistive memory materials and devices (often called memristors) are an area of intense research, with metal/metal oxide/metal resistive elements a prominent example of such devices. Electroforming (the formation of a conductive filament in the metal oxide layer) represents one of the often necessary steps of resistive memory device fabrication that results in large and poorly controlled variability in device performance. In this contribution we present a numerical investigation of the electroforming process. In our model, drift and Ficks and Soret diffusion processes are responsible for movement of vacancies in the oxide material. Simulations predict filament formation and qualitatively agreed with a reduction of the forming voltage in structures with a top electrode. The forming and switching results of the study are compared with numerical simulations and show a possible pathway toward more repeatable and controllable resistive memory devices.



Joule ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
pp. 1134-1145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Li ◽  
Yu Qiao ◽  
Shaohua Guo ◽  
Kezhu Jiang ◽  
Qinghao Li ◽  
...  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (97) ◽  
pp. 15397-15399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ze Li ◽  
Yi-Wei Zhang ◽  
Yue-Long Xin ◽  
Yu Bai ◽  
Heng-Hui Zhou ◽  
...  

A lithium-rich composite metal oxide material used as a SALDI matrix for high throughput analysis of small molecules.



2000 ◽  
Vol 635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lionel Vayssieres ◽  
Jinghua Guo ◽  
Joseph Nordgren

ABSTRACTLarge arrays of perpendicularly oriented anisotropic nanoparticles of ferric oxyhydroxide (Akaganeite, β-FeOOH) and oxide (Hematite, α-Fe2O3) of typically 3-5 nm in diameter, self-assembled as bundles of about 50 nm in diameter and of up to 1 μm in length have been successfully grown onto polycrystalline substrates without template and/or surfactant by heteronucleation from an aqueous solution of ferric salts and their optical and electronic properties investigated.





CrystEngComm ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 2335-2339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenyao Li ◽  
Kaibing Xu ◽  
Guosheng Song ◽  
Xiying Zhou ◽  
Rujia Zou ◽  
...  

A supercapacitor electrode of porous urchin-like MnCo2O4.5 hierarchical architectures demonstrated an outstanding rate capability and excellent cycling stability, which could be considered as a potential mixed transition metal oxide material for high-rate supercapacitors.



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