Effective Measures of Thickness Evolution of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase of Graphite Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries.

Upon forming, the intensity or thickness of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) in a Li-ion battery (LIB) evolves to various states depending on the cell materials and operation conditions. Despite a crucial role in comprehending the behaviors of an LIB, its quantitative measure is far from satisfactory mainly because of the undue complexity of the concentration profiles of the comprising chemical species. Here, we calculate the depth profiles of atomic mole fractions of C and F and their ratio as = C/F of graphite anodes for LIBs in comparison to an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) experiment.

Correction to "Kinetics on Li Deintercalation in Mg- or Li-Doped SiO/Graphite Composite Anodes for Li Ion Batteries: Dopant Effect".

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.

On-Clamp vs. Off-Clamp Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy for cT2 Renal Tumors: Retrospective Propensity-Score-Matched Multicenter Outcome Analysis.

We compared perioperative outcomes after on-clamp versus off-clamp robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) for >7 cm renal masses. A multicenter dataset was queried for patients who had undergone RAPN for a cT2cN0cM0 kidney tumor from July 2007 to February 2022. The Trifecta achievement (negative surgical margins, no severe complications, and ≤ 30% postoperative estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) reduction) was considered a surrogate of surgical quality.

Methodology of measurement of ionic strength based on field-flow fractionation.

In this report, we put forward an experimental method to determine the ionic strength of an aqueous solution. To this end, we have developed a theory of ionic strength I expressed in terms of the retention ratios in field-flow fractionation (FFF) as I=κ(1-R)/(1-R)-ε. Here R is a measured retention ratio using an FFF technique, for instance, sedimentation FFF (SdFFF), and R is the sterically-corrected standard retention ratio as given by the standard retention theory (SRT) for a latex particle system of diameter d.