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Fabrication of Boron-Doped Activated Carbon for Zinc-Ion Hybrid Supercapacitors (아연-이온 하이브리드 슈퍼커패시터를 위한 보론 도핑된 활성탄의 제조)

  • Lee, Young-Geun;Jang, Haenam;An, Geon-Hyoung
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.30 no.9
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    • pp.458-464
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    • 2020
  • Zinc-ion hybrid supercapacitors (ZICs) have recently been spotlighted as energy storage devices due to their high energy and high power densities. However, despite these merits, ZICs face many challenges related to their cathode materials, activated carbon (AC). AC as a cathode material has restrictive electrical conductivity, which leads to low capacity and lifetime at high current densities. To overcome this demerit, a novel boron (B) doped AC is suggested herein with improved electrical conductivity thanks to B-doping effect. Especially, in order to optimize B-doped AC, amounts of precursors are regulated. The optimized B-doped AC electrode shows a good charge-transfer process and superior electrochemical performance, including high specific capacity of 157.4 mAh g-1 at current density of 0.5 A g-1, high-rate performance with 66.6 mAh g-1 at a current density of 10 A g-1, and remarkable, ultrafast cycling stability (90.7 % after 10,000 cycles at a current density of 5 A g-1). The superior energy storage performance is attributed to the B-doping effect, which leads to an excellent charge-transfer process of the AC cathode. Thus, our strategy can provide a rational design for ultrafast cycling stability of next-generation supercapacitors in the near future.

Plasma Upflows and Microwave Emission in Hot Supra-arcade Structure associated with M1.6 Limb Flare

  • Kim, Sujin;Shibasaki, Kiyoto;Bain, Hazel M.;Cho, Kyung-Suk
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.74.1-74.1
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    • 2014
  • We have investigated a supra-arcade structure associated with an M1.6 flare, which occurred on the south-east limb in the 4th of November 2010. It is ob- served in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) with the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), microwaves at 17 and 34 GHz with the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH), and soft X-rays of 8-20 keV with the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI). Interestingly, we found exceptional properties of the supra-arcade thermal plasma from the AIA 131 A and the NoRH: 1) plasma upflows along large coronal loops and 2) enhancing microwave emission. RHESSI detected two soft X-ray sources, a broad one in the middle of supra-arcade structure and a bright one just above the flare-arcade. We estimated the number density and thermal energy for these two source regions during the decay phase of the flare. In the supra-arcade source, we found that there were increases of the thermal energy and the density at the early and the last stages, respectively. On the contrary, the density and thermal energy of the source on the top of the flare-arcade decreases throughout. The observed upflows imply that there is continuous energy supply into the supra- arcade structure from below during the decay phase of the flare. It is hard to be explained by the standard flare model in which the energy release site is located high in corona. Thus, we suggest that the potential candidate as the energy source for the hot supra-arcade structure is the flare-arcade which has exhibited a predominant emission throughout.

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Understanding DFT Calculations of Weak Interactions: Density-Corrected Density Functional Theory

  • Park, Hansol;Kim, Yeil;Sim, Eunji
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.63 no.1
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    • pp.24-28
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    • 2019
  • In this work, we discuss where the failure of Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory (DFT) occurs in weak interactions. We have adopted density-corrected density functional calculations and dispersion correction separately to find out whether the failure is due to density-driven error or functional error. The results of Benzene Ar complex, one of the most common examples of van der Waals interactions, show that DFT calculations of van der Waals interaction suffer from functional error, rather than density-driven error. In addition, errors in DFT calculations of the S22 dataset, which contains small to relatively large (30 atoms) complexes with non-covalent interactions, are governed by functional errors.

Availability of 2-Dimensional Vector Magnetic Property for High Flux Density Machines

  • Enokizono Masato
    • KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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    • v.5B no.1
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    • pp.1-5
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    • 2005
  • The vector magnetic property is defined as the relationship between the magnetic field strength vector H and the magnetic flux density vector B. It is very important for the development of high efficiency and the high-density electric machines. The electrical steel sheet for the machine core shows the remarkable vector behavior by the high magnetic flux density level. In this paper, the magnetic characteristic analysis using E&S2 model is introduced as the useful technology for the design and development.

The Hydrogen Binding Property Study by Density Functional Theory for Zr, V, Fe and Al (밀도 함수를 이용한 지르코니움, 바나듐, 철과 수소와의 반응성 연구)

  • Park, Taesung;Lee, Taeckhong
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.602-608
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    • 2014
  • The sequence of bond overlap population of metal hydrogen binding is in Al-H > Fe-H > Zr-H > V-H. This results shows the binding energy of Al-H is the biggest in this metals (Al, Fe, Zr, and V) and hydrogen interaction. The Vanadium-hydrogen binding shows the weakest binding energy compared to other metals and it causes easy hydrogen desorption from the corresponding metals. The net charge of Al-H show the biggest value of 0.2248 and the severe localizations of electrons around aluminum and imply strongest covalent binding nature in these metals. This study is applicable to the purification of hydrogen in other bulk gas.

A NONEXISTENCE THEOREM FOR STABLE EXPONENTIALLY HARMONIC MAPS

  • Koh, Sung-Eun
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.211-214
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    • 1995
  • Let M and N be compact Riemannian manifolds and $f : M \to N$ be a smooth map. Following J. Eells, f is exponentially harmonic if it represents a critical point of the exponential energy integral $$ E(f) = \int_{M} exp(\left\$\mid$ df \right\$\mid$^2) dM $$ where $(\left\ df $\mid$\right\$\mid$^2$ is the energy density defined as $\sum_{i=1}^{m} \left\$\mid$ df(e_i) \right\$\mid$^2$, m = dimM, for orthonormal frame $e_i$ of M. The Euler- Lagrange equation of the exponential energy functional E can be written $$ exp(\left\$\mid$ df \right\$\mid$^2)(\tau(f) + df(\nabla\left\$\mid$ df \right\$\mid$^2)) = 0 $$ where $\tau(f)$ is the tension field along f. Hence, if the energy density is constant, every harmonic map is exponentially harmonic and vice versa.

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Comparison of Signal Powers Generated with Different Shapes of Hammer Plates

  • Jeong, Ji-Hyun;Kim, Jin-Hoo
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.395-400
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    • 2012
  • One of the main problems concerning the shallow seismic survey is how to generate high frequency signals with large amplitudes using small seismic sources. If one could focus the seismic energy in the direction of the survey line, it will be much helpful in identifying the first break. In this research, we have used hammer as an impulsive source and compared the signal powers generated by different shapes of the hammer plates: circular, square, and rectangular. The experiment was conducted by calculating the power spectral density function to compare the frequency spectrum and signal power. In the direction perpendicular to the long side of the rectangular plate, the largest seismic energy with the highest frequency was achieved even with the same weights of hammer plates. Our conclusion is that it is more efficient to use a rectangular plate than a circular (or square) one when conducting a 2-D shallow seismic survey.

Power Flow Analysis of Vibration of Coupled Plates Excited by a Point Force In an Arbitrary Direction (임의 방향 점가진력에 의한 연성 평판 진동의 파워흐름해석)

  • Kil, H.G.;Choi, J.S.;Hong, S.Y.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2000.06a
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    • pp.301-308
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    • 2000
  • The power flow analysis(PFA) has been performed to analyze the vibration of coupled plates excited by a point force in an arbitrry direction. The energy governing equations for longitudinal, shear and flexural waves were solved to predict the vibrational energy density and intensity. The wave transmission approach was used to consider the mode conversion at the joints of the coupled plates. Numerical results for energy density and intensity on the coupled plates were presented. Comparison of the results by PFA with exact results showed that PFA can be an effective tool to predict the spatial variation of the vibrational energy and intensity on the coupled plates at high frequencies.

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Effect of Ignition Energy Characteristics on the Ignition and the Combustion of a Premixed Gas(2) (점화에너지 특성이 예혼합기의 착화와 연소에 미치는 영향(2))

  • 이중순;강병무;김현수;정성식;하종률
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.5 no.6
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    • pp.183-191
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    • 1997
  • For the improvement of ignitability we need ignition energy and its discharge characteristics which are suitable for a part distribution of the mixture density around the ignition spark plug and the flow characteristics of the mixture in the combustion. Especially, for the solving of the instability of initial ignition and lean ignitability limit in the case of lean-burn combustion, the more powerful ignition energy is required. The conclusions from the observation can be summarized as follows: 1) The ignitability limit for HIS expands wider and the combustion is more stable than for CDI. 2) The combustion duration and ignition timing depend upon the distribution of local mixture density in the vicinity of ignition spark plug.

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