Surface coating of a LiNi Co Al O ( > 0.85) cathode with LiPO for applying a water-based hybrid polymer binder during Li-ion battery preparation.

To produce water-stable Ni-rich lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxides (LiNi Co Al O, > 0.85, NCAs), the formation of trilithium phosphate (LiPO)-coated layers on the NCA surfaces was attempted through the use of a surface reaction in a mixture of ethanol and water and a post-heat treatment at 350 and 400 °C. Based on the results of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), the coated layers consisted of nickel phosphate (Ni(PO)) and LiPO.

Size of elementary clusters and process period in silver nanoparticle formation.

The time dependence of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) curves for silver nanoparticle formation was followed in situ at a time resolution of 0.18 ms, which is 3 orders of magnitude higher than that used in previous reports (ca. 100 ms).

Role of naofen, a novel WD repeat-containing protein, in reducing nitric oxide-induced relaxation.

1. Naofen, a novel WD40 repeat domain-containing protein, has recently been found in the intracellular compartment. The aim of the present study was to determine whether naofen affects thoracic aortic vascular reactivity in normotensive and hypertensive rats and whether naofen is present in the thoracic aorta.

First-order phase transition of fixed connectivity surfaces.

We report numerical evidence of the discontinuous transition of a tethered membrane model which is defined within a framework of the membrane elasticity of Helfrich. Two kinds of phantom tethered membrane models are studied via the canonical Monte Carlo simulation on triangulated fixed connectivity surfaces of spherical topology. One surface model is defined by the Gaussian term and the bending energy term, and the other, which is tensionless, is defined by the bending energy term and a hard wall potential.