Lithium plating is an undesirable side reaction in lithium-ion cells during fast charging at lower temperatures. The voltage plateau of the open-circuit voltage (OCV) of cells after charging is widely used to infer the onset of lithium plating. The d...
Battery voltage plateau characteristics are crucial for designing and controlling battery management systems. Utilising the plateau period attributes to their fullest extent can enable optimal battery control, enhance battery performance, and prolong...
Lithium-ion power batteries, which are the foundation of electric cars and are expected to play a significant role in a variety of operating environments and application situations, have major development prospects. In order to obtain the optimal ope...
The SiC (silicon carbide) high-power module has great potential to replace the IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) power module in high-frequency and high-power applications, due to the superior properties of fast switching and low power loss, h...
Series connection is an attractive approach to increase the blocking voltage of SiC power MOSFETs. Currently, the voltage balancing design of the series connection of the SiC MOSFETs highly relies on offline calibration and is challenging in the comp...
Electric vehicles have a promising development prospect. As its core component, lithium-ion power battery plays a crucial role in different application scenarios. Aiming at the availability and safety of square ternary lithium batteries at different...
This paper presents a compact and accurate readout circuit for remote two-wire resistive sensors, based on an inverting operational amplifier with a fixed bias voltage, diode steering, and unidirectional square-wave excitation generated by a microcon...
This paper reveals the relationship between the Miller plateau voltage and the displacement currents through the gate–drain capacitance (CGD) and the drain–source capacitance (CDS) in the switching process of a power transistor. The corrected turn-on...
The aim of this work is the design of an algorithm for on-board determination of the actual capacity of a LiFePO4 cathode-based lithium-ion battery in electric vehicle applications. The presented approach is based on the detection of the predominant...
We theoretically analyze phonon-assisted tunneling transport in a quantum dot side connected to a Majorana bound state in a topological superconducting nanowire. We investigate the behavior of the current through the dot, for a range of experimentall...
Swelling in pouch batteries poses reliability issues and safety hazards, resulting in product damage, fires, and explosions. This study examines swelling based on the impact of C-rate and temperature during charge–discharge tests, and upper vol...
High-voltage heat release from batteries can cause safety issues for electric vehicles. Relevant scientific research work is carried out in the laboratory. The battery safety of laboratory experiments should not be underestimated. In order to evaluat...
Aiming at the significant needs of flexible DC converter valve applications in high-altitude areas, we investigate the effect of atmospheric neutrons on the failure rate of key core power devices in three kinds of converter valves, namely IGBTs, thyr...
This paper proposes a new model that predicts the cell voltage dynamics and capacity degradation induced by lithium plating and stripping. The proposed model uses a single equilibrium reaction to describe the deposition and dissolution of metallic li...
The features of the electrochemical behavior of experimental heterogeneous ion-exchange membranes with different mass fractions of sulfonated cation-exchange resin (from 45 to 65 wt%) have been studied by voltammetry during electrodialysis. Electrome...
Hard carbons are one of the most promising anode materials for next-generation sodium-ion batteries due to their high reversible capacity, long cycle life, and low cost. The advantage in terms of price of hard carbons can be further improved by using...
A signature of synaptic potentiation conductance has been observed in an α-Fe2O3/p-Si device fabricated using spin coating. The conductance of the device in dark conditions and illumination with a white light source was characterized as a funct...
An experimental method exploiting the capacitive response of most materials is here revised. The procedure called the “Voltage Ramp Method” (VRM) is based on applying proper voltage ramp cycles over time and measuring electrical current i...
In this study, we propose a simple measurement technique to quantitatively measure the time taken by threshold voltage of normally-off p-GaN AlGaN/GaN HEMTs to recover from a nominal operational gate stress-induced instability. The proposed technique...
LiFePO4 batteries exhibit voltage plateau and voltage hysteresis characteristics during charging and discharging processes; however, the estimation of state-of-charge relies on voltage detection. Thus, the estimation accuracy of SOC is low in a tradi...
The alterations in current-voltage and transport characteristics of highly basic and strongly acidic ion-exchange membranes, during the electrodialysis of solutions containing a heterocyclic amino acid and a strong electrolyte, were studied. An incre...
The voltage of an alkaline electrolyte-based battery is often limited by the narrow electrochemical stability window of water (1.23 V). As an alternative to water, ionic liquid (IL)-based electrolyte has been shown to exhibit excellent proton conduct...
Abstract: Non-uniformity of Lithium-ion cells in a battery pack is inevitable and has become the bottleneck to the pack capacity, especially in the fast charging process. Therefore, a balancing approach is essentially required. This paper proposes an...
In this study, SiO2 thin films were sputtered from a Si target using reactive HiPIMS (high-power impulse magnetron sputtering) in an argon–oxygen process gas. In order to understand the behavior of HiPIMS, the deposition process was studied by...
The cation channel subunit TRPC1 is strongly expressed in central neurons including neurons in the CA1 region of the hippocampus where it forms complexes with TRPC4 and TRPC5. To investigate the functional role of TRPC1 in these neurons and in channe...
Enhancement of the late sodium current (INaL) increases arrhythmia propensity in the heart, whereas suppression of the current is antiarrhythmic. In the present study, we investigated INaL in canine ventricular cardiomyocytes under action potential v...
In this study, we fabricated three kinds of terahertz detectors with different leakage currents to analyze the plateau-like effect. The results indicate that the platform becomes increasingly apparent with the decrease in the leakage current. The fab...
Airway smooth muscle (ASM) contraction is determined by the increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]i) caused by its release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) or by extracellular Ca2+ influx. Major channels involved in Ca2+ influx in A...
CuS and Cu1.8S have been investigated respectively as anodes of lithium-ion batteries because of their abundant resources, no environment pollution, good electrical conductivity, and a stable discharge voltage plateau. In this work, CuS/Cu1.8S nanoco...
Several ion currents in the mammalian ventricular myocardium are substantially regulated by the sympathetic nervous system via β-adrenergic receptor activation, including the slow delayed rectifier K+ current and the L-type calcium current. This...
While Forgetting Factor Recursive Least Square (FFRLS) algorithms with evaluation mechanisms have been developed to address SOC-dependent parameter mapping shifts and their efficacy has been proven in Li-ion batteries, their applicability to lithium&...
State-of-energy (SOE) estimation helps to enhance the safety of battery operation and predict vehicle range. However, the voltage plateau of the LiFePO4 (LFP) battery presents a significant challenge for SOE estimation. Therefore, this paper introduc...
Rechargeable zinc–air batteries (RZABs) are basically dependent on both affordable and long-lasting bifunctional electrocatalysts. A non-precious metal catalyst, a FeNi nanoalloy catalyst (FeNi@NC) with an extremely low metal consumption (0.06...
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are constructed from small organic molecules through reversible covalent bonds, and are therefore considered a special type of polymer. Small organic molecules are divided into nodes and connectors based on their ro...
One-dimensional (1D) vanadium oxide nanobelts (VOx NBs) with variable V valence, which include V3O7·H2O NBs, VO2 (B) NBs and V2O5 NBs, were prepared by a simple hydrothermal treatment under a controllable reductive environment and a following...
Symmetric batteries, in which the same active material is used for the positive and the negative electrode, simplifying the manufacture process and reducing the fabrication cost, have attracted extensive interest for large-scale stationary energy sto...
Metal-insulator-semiconductor-insulator-metal (MISIM) heterostructures, with rectifying current-voltage characteristics and photosensitivity in the visible and near-infrared spectra, are fabricated and studied. It is shown that the photocurrent can b...
The electrochemical reactions of multi-phase metal hydride (MH) alloys were studied using a series of Laves phase-related body-centered-cubic (BCC) Ti15.6Zr2.1V43Cr11.2Mn6.9Co1.4Ni18.5Al0.3X (X = V, B, Mg, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, La, and Nd) alloys. These all...
Charge carrier scattering at grain boundaries (GBs) in a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) graphene reduces the carrier mobility and degrades the performance of the graphene device, which is expected to affect the quantum Hall effect (QHE). This study...
We theoretically investigate thermoelectric effects in a quantum dot system under the influence of a linearly polarized photon field confined to a 3D cavity. A temperature gradient is applied to the system via two electron reservoirs that are connect...
This work continues our systematic study of Li- and Mn- rich cathodes for lithium-ion batteries. We chose Li2MnO3 as a model electrode material with the aim of correlating the improved electrochemical characteristics of these cathodes initially activ...
This study investigates the behavior of phosphate ion transport through two structurally distinct anion-exchange membranes—AMV (homogeneous) and HC-A (heterogeneous)—in an electrodialysis system under both static and stirred conditions at...
Most investigations on flow batteries (FBs) make the assumption of perfectly mixed electrolytes inside the tanks without estimating their likelihood, while specific analyses are missing in the literature. This paper presents a pioneering investigatio...
Efficient oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) electrocatalysts are the key to advancement of solid-state alkaline zinc–air batteries (ZAB). We demonstrate an electrocatalyst, spinel lithium-manganese oxide LiMn2O4 (LMO) by a simple hydrothermal met...
Anion-exchange membranes modified with a polyquaternium-22 (PQ-22) polymer were studied for their use in electrodialysis. The use of PQ-22 for modification makes it possible to “replace” weakly basic amino groups on the membrane surface w...
In this paper, we study the dynamics of a certain Hodgkin-Huxley model describing the action potential (AP) of a cardiac muscle cell for a better understanding of the occurrence of a special type of cardiac arrhythmia, the so-called early afterdepola...
Nanowire or nanobelt sensors based on silicon-on-insulator field-effect transistors (SOI-FETs) are one of the leading directions of label-free biosensors. An essential issue in this device construction type is obtaining reproducible results from elec...
The state estimation of a battery is a significant component of a BMS. Due to the poor temperature performance and voltage plateau phase in LiFePO4 batteries, the difficulty of state estimation is greatly increased. At the same time, the ambient temp...
An accurate state of charge (SOC) estimation of the battery is one of the most important techniques in battery-based power systems, such as electric vehicles (EVs) and energy storage systems (ESSs). The Kalman filter is a preferred algorithm in estim...
To enhance desalination efficiency and reduce experimental costs, the development of advanced mathematical models for EMS is essential. In this study, we propose a novel hybrid approach that integrates neural networks with high-accuracy numerical sim...
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