scholarly journals Electroless Plating of High-Performance Composite Pd Membranes with EDTA-Free Bath

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (17) ◽  
pp. 4894
Author(s):  
Jun-Yi Wang ◽  
Yen-Hsun Chi ◽  
Jin-Hua Huang

High-performance composite Pd membranes were successfully fabricated using electroless plating with an EDTA-free bath. The plating started with employing the one-time addition of hydrazine. In the experiment, the hydrazine concentrations and plating bath volumes were systematically varied to optimize the plating. The optimum composite Pd membrane tube showed high H2 permeance of 4.4 × 10−3 mol/m2 s Pa0.5 and high selectivity of 1.6 × 104, but poor cycling stability. Then, a method of sequential addition of the hydrazine from the high to low concentrations was employed. The resultant membrane, about 6 μm thick, still exhibited a high selectivity of 6.8 × 104 as well as a much-improved plating yield and cycling stability level; this membrane outperformed the membrane made using the unmodified plating technique with the EDTA-contained bath. This result indicates the EDTA-free bath combined with the sequential addition of hydrazine is a simple, low-cost, yet effective method for preparing thin, dense composite Pd membranes featuring high hydrogen permeation flux and high thermal durability.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naeime Salandari-Jolge ◽  
Ali A. Ensafi ◽  
Behzad Rezaei

Dipyridamole is a prescribed medication used to treat cardiovascular diseases, angina pectoris, imaging tests for heart patients, and myocardial infarction. Therefore, high selectivity and sensitivity, low cost, and high-performance speed...


2011 ◽  
Vol 179-180 ◽  
pp. 1309-1313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Liang Zhang ◽  
Xu Feng Xie ◽  
Yan Huang

Pd-based composite membranes are the attractive membrane materials for hydrogen separation due to their high hydrogen permeability and infinite permselectivity. Thin pure Ni and Pd-Ni alloy membranes with high hydrogen permeation were prepared by the electroless plating method. It is difficult to prepare the dense pure Ni membranes with 1-2 μm thickness for hydrogen separation. However, Pd-Ni alloy membranes with several micrometers thickness showed good permeation performance. Hydrogen permeance of the Pd95Ni5 alloy membrane with fcc phase up to 3.1×10-6 mol/m2 s Pa and the ideal permselectivity over 600 were obtained at 773 K.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jifeng Wang ◽  
Jorge Olortegui-Yume ◽  
Norbert Müller

AbstractA low cost, light weight, high performance composite material turbomachinery impeller with a uniquely designed blade patterns is analyzed. Such impellers can economically enable refrigeration plants to use water as a refrigerant (R718). A strength and dynamic characteristics analyses procedure is developed to assess the maximum stresses and natural frequencies of these wound composite axial impellers under operating loading conditions. Numerical simulation using FEM for two-dimensional and three-dimensional impellers was investigated. A commercially available software ANSYS is used for the finite element calculations. Analysis is done for different blade geometries and then suggestions are made for optimum design parameters. In order to avoid operating at resonance, which can make impellers suffer a significant reduction in the design life, the designer must calculate the natural frequency and modal shape of the impeller to analyze the dynamic characteristics. The results show that using composite Kevlar fiber/epoxy matrix enables the impeller to run at high tip speed and withstand the stresses, no critical speed will be matched during start-up and shut-down, and that mass imbalances of the impeller shall not pose a critical problem.


2022 ◽  
pp. 004051752110698
Author(s):  
Chuanli Su ◽  
Guangwei Shao ◽  
Qinghua Yu ◽  
Yaoli Huang ◽  
Jinhua Jiang ◽  
...  

Highly conductive, flexible, stretchable and lightweight electrode substrates are essential to meet the future demand on supercapacitors for wearable electronics. However, it is difficult to achieve the above characteristics simultaneously. In this study, ultrafine stainless-steel fibers (with a diameter of ≈30 μm) are knitted into stainless-steel meshes (SSMs) with a diamond structure for the fabrication of textile stretchable electrodes and current collectors. The electrodes are fabricated by utilizing an electrodeposited three-dimensional network graphene framework and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) coating on the SSM substrates via a two-step electrodeposition process, which show a specific capacitance of 77.09 F g−1 (0.14 A g−1) and superb cycling stability (91% capacitance retention after 5000 cycles). Furthermore, the assembled flexible stretchable supercapacitor based on the PEDOT/reduced graphene oxide (RGO)@SSM electrodes exhibits an areal capacitance (53 mF cm−2 at 0.1 mA cm−2), a good cycling stability (≈73% capacitance retention after 5000 cycles), rate capability (36 mF cm−2 at 5 mA cm−2), stretchable stability (≈78% capacitance retention at 10% strain for 500 stretching cycles) and outstanding flexibility and stability under various bending deformations. The assembled supercapacitors can illuminate a thermometer and a light-emitting diode, demonstrating their potential application as stretchable supercapacitors. This simple and low-cost method developed for fabricating lightweight, stretchable and stable high-performance supercapacitors offers new opportunities for future stretchable electronic devices.


Author(s):  
Jifeng Wang ◽  
Mohit Patil ◽  
Jorge Olortegui-Yume ◽  
Norbert Mu¨ller

A low-cost, light-weight, high-performance, composite turbomachinery impeller with uniquely designed blade patterns is analyzed. Such impellers can economically enable refrigeration plants to use water as a refrigerant (R718). A stress and vibration analyses procedure is developed to assess the maximum stresses and natural frequencies of these wound composite axial impellers under operating loading conditions using Finite Element Method. A commercially available software ANSYS is used for the FE calculations. Analysis is done for two different blade geometries and then suggestions are made for optimum design parameters. The relationship between impeller natural frequency and rotating speed is also determined based on dynamic characteristics analysis.


RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (52) ◽  
pp. 27488-27492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiayin Yao ◽  
Junhua Kong ◽  
Xiaosheng Tang ◽  
Dan Zhou ◽  
Chenyang Zhao ◽  
...  

Porous CoFe2O4 nanosheets are prepared via a low-cost and scalable process and are shown to be high-performance anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.


Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Fangtao Li ◽  
Xiaoxu Wang ◽  
Rongming Wang

As a typical two-dimensional (2D) MXene, Ti3C2O2 has been considered as a potential material for high-performance hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalyst, due to its anticorrosion and hydrophilic surface. However, it is still a challenge to improve the Ti3C2O2 surficial HER catalytic activity. In this work, we investigated the HER activity of Ti3C2O2 after the surface was doped with S, Se, and Te by the first principles method. The results indicated that the HER activity of Ti3C2O2 is improved after being doped with S, Se, Te because the Gibbs free energy of hydrogen adsorption (ΔGH) is increased from −2.19 eV to 0.08 eV. Furthermore, we also found that the ΔGH of Ti3C2O2 increased from 0.182 eV to 0.08 eV with the doping concentration varied from 5.5% to 16.7%. The HER catalytic activity improvement of Ti3C2O2 is attributed to the local crystal structure distortion in catalytic active sites and Fermi level shift leads to the p-d orbital hybridization. Our results pave a new avenue for preparing a low-cost and high performance HER catalyst.


Nanomaterials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Wei ◽  
Coucong Gong ◽  
Keke Hu ◽  
Yabin Wang ◽  
Yantu Zhang

Hydroxyapatite (HA) has been widely used in fields of materials science, tissue engineering, biomedicine, energy and environmental science, and analytical science due to its simple preparation, low-cost, and high biocompatibility. To overcome the weak mechanical properties of pure HA, various reinforcing materials were incorporated with HA to form high-performance composite materials. Due to the unique structural, biological, electrical, mechanical, thermal, and optical properties, graphene has exhibited great potentials for supporting the biomimetic synthesis of HA. In this review, we present recent advance in the biomimetic synthesis of HA on graphene supports for biomedical applications. More focuses on the biomimetic synthesis methods of HA and HA on graphene supports, as well as the biomedical applications of biomimetic graphene-HA nanohybrids in drug delivery, cell growth, bone regeneration, biosensors, and antibacterial test are performed. We believe that this review is state-of-the-art, and it will be valuable for readers to understand the biomimetic synthesis mechanisms of HA and other bioactive minerals, at the same time it can inspire the design and synthesis of graphene-based novel nanomaterials for advanced applications.


RSC Advances ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (35) ◽  
pp. 21754-21759
Author(s):  
Wei-Min Gu ◽  
Chuanxi Wang ◽  
Cai-Yan Gao ◽  
Xin-Heng Fan ◽  
Lian-Ming Yang ◽  
...  

MAPbI3 perovskite is first used as a light-absorbing charge-generating material for xerographic photoreceptors. The resultant photoreceptor exhibits excellent xerographic properties, and good environmental and electrical cycling stability.


RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (17) ◽  
pp. 9181-9191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiuli Chen ◽  
Jinfeng Sun ◽  
Zhengluo Wang ◽  
Zhiwei Zhao ◽  
Yanru Zhang ◽  
...  

Hierarchical micro-/mesoporous N/O-enriched carbon was scalably fabricated, and exhibited high gravimetric/volumetric capacitances, a large energy density and long-term cycling stability for supercapacitors with aqueous and organic electrolytes.


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