The effects of fluorinated metal-organic frameworks as additives in polymer-based electrolytes for all-solid-state lithium batteries.

In this study, solid composite electrolytes (SCEs) comprising UIO-66-F(Zr) were obtained by using a simple solution casting method. By introducing fluorinated groups, the interaction between the MOF and the polymer was significantly improved, which not only stabilizes the SEI layer but also improves the ionic conductivity of the SCEs, thus advancing the practical application of solid composite electrolytes in lithium metal batteries.

Thermodynamic investigation of the efficiency of ammonia-powered marine solid oxide fuel cells with gas turbine.

Improvement of marine power plants includes increasing their efficiency and drastically reducing emissions of pollutants, which involves transitioning to carbon-free fuels. This article discusses the evolution of a marine power system designed for decarbonization, utilizing ammonia and comprising solid oxide fuel cells with a gas turbine. To enhance efficiency, the system incorporates a steam supply into the fuel burning device of a gas turbine.

Melting of crystallites in a solid porous matrix and the application limits of the Gibbs-Thomson equation.

A thermodynamic model is proposed to describe the melting of lamellar crystallite in a solid medium. This model includes a modification of the Gibbs-Thomson equation to make it applicable to the above-mentioned crystallites. The need for such modification is supported experimentally by studying the impact of the surroundings on the melting point of the crystallites.

Influence of Geometric Parameters of Conical Acrylic Portholes on Their Stress-Strain Behaviour.

Translucent elements in the form of truncated cones, which are made of organic glass, are widely used in the structures of portholes, submersible vessels, space vehicles, pressure chambers, teleboxes and other types of technical equipment. The decisive factor in designing portholes is to ensure the strength of their translucent elements. In order to reduce the weight of portholes and, accordingly, to increase the payload, it is necessary to optimise the geometric parameters of the translucent elements, which include the tapering angle and the ratio of thickness to radius of the smaller base.

Some universality in subcritical behavior of real substances and model fluids.

On the basis of the latest advances in Mayer's cluster-based approach, the reduced forms of the well-known virial expansions are derived in terms of scaled reducible and irreducible cluster integrals. This transformation minimizes the dependence on temperature and the effect of parameters specific for each thermodynamic system, thus making the resulting reduced expansions indeed universal on the quantitative level. In particular, the scaling of isotherms and saturation curves for various systems (the Lennard-Jones model, different lattice gases, and real substances with simple nonpolar molecules as well as complex polar ones) confirms the approximate universality of the proposed reduced variables for temperature, pressure, and density at subcritical gaseous states up to the saturation point.

Motor activity as the basis of a healthy lifestyle of student youth.

Objective: The aim is to find out the role of motor activity in developing a healthy lifestyle of student youth in the process of physical education.

Patients And Methods: Materials and methods: The study involved 647 students, aged 18-22. The research methods are the analysis and synthesis of the literature, analysis of curricula, programs, methodological support and quality of training, questionnaires, and the methods of mathematical statistics.

Construction of subcritical isotherms for model and real gases on the basis of Mayer's cluster expansion.

Existing rigorous statistical approaches still cannot quantitatively describe condensation phenomena in real fluids and even model systems with some simplified interaction potential. Here, we present a method to evaluate the unlimited subcritical set of Mayer's reducible cluster integrals (the power coefficients of virial expansions) by using the information on several virial coefficients and empirical value of saturation activity. As to the requirements on the initial number of known virial coefficients, the calculations for the Lennard-Jones model indicate that only the second virial coefficient is sufficient to reproduce gas isotherms (including the flat phase-transition region) with high accuracy at low temperatures.

Divergence of activity expansions: Is it actually a problem?

For realistic interaction models, which include both molecular attraction and repulsion (e.g., Lennard-Jones, modified Lennard-Jones, Morse, and square-well potentials), the asymptotic behavior of the virial expansions for pressure and density in powers of activity has been studied taking power terms of high orders into account on the basis of the known finite-order irreducible integrals as well as the recent approximations of infinite irreducible series.

Virial and high-density expansions for the Lee-Yang lattice gas.

On the basis of the recently established "hole-particle" symmetry of the lattice-gas Hamiltonian, the high-density equation of state has been derived in a form of pressure and density expansions in powers of activity. This equation is proposed as an alternative and complementary to the previously obtained pressure expansion in powers of density. For the well-known Lee-Yang lattice-gas model (a two-dimensional square lattice with a square-well interaction potential), the power coefficients (i.