Empowering Tri-Functional Palladium's Catalytic Activity and Durability in Electrocatalytic Formic Acid Oxidation Reaction via Innovative Self-Caging and Alloying Strategies.

Direct formic acid fuel cells (DFAFCs) stand out for portable electronic devices owing to their ease of handling, abundant fuel availability, and high theoretical open circuit potential. However, the practical application of DFAFCs is hindered by the unsatisfactory performance of electrocatalysts for the sluggish anodic formic acid oxidation reaction (FAOR). Palladium (Pd) based nanomaterials have shown promise for FAOR due to their highly selective reaction mechanism, but maintaining high electrocatalytic durability remains challenging.

Boosting Electrochemical Performance via Extra-Role of La-Doped CeO Interlayer for "Oxygen Provider" at High-Current SOFC Operation.

Utilizing rare earth doped ceria in solid oxide cells (SOCs) engineering is indeed a strategy aimed at enhancing the electrochemical devices' durability and activity. Particularly, Gd-doped ceria (GDC) is actively used for barrier layer and catalytic additives in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). In this study, experiments are conducted with La-doped CeO (LDC), in which the Ce sites are predominantly occupied by La, to prevent the formation of the Ce-Zr solid solution.

A comparison between centralized and asynchronous federated learning approaches for survival outcome prediction using clinical and PET data from non-small cell lung cancer patients.

Background And Objective: Survival analysis plays an essential role in the medical field for optimal treatment decision-making. Recently, survival analysis based on the deep learning (DL) approach has been proposed and is demonstrating promising results. However, developing an ideal prediction model requires integrating large datasets across multiple institutions, which poses challenges concerning medical data privacy.

Amorphous-Crystalline Interfaces on Hollow Nanocubes Derived from Ir-Doped Ni-Fe-Zn Prussian Blue Analog Enables High Capability of Alkaline/Acidic/Saline Water Oxidations.

Development of highly efficient and robust electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) under specific electrolyte is a key to actualize commercial low-temperature water electrolyzers. Herein, a rational catalyst design strategy is first reported based on amorphous-crystalline (a-c) interfacial engineering to achieve high catalytic activity and durability under diverse electrolytes that can be used for all types of low-temperature water electrolysis. Abundant a-c interface (ACI) is implemented into a hollow nanocubic (pre)-electrocatalyst which is derived from Ir-doped Ni-Fe-Zn Prussian blue analogues (PBA).

Design Strategies of Li-Si Alloy Anode for Mitigating Chemo-Mechanical Degradation in Sulfide-Based All-Solid-State Batteries.

Composite anodes of Li PS  glass+Li-Si alloy (Type 1) and Li N+LiF+Li-Si alloy (Type 2) are prepared for all-solid-state batteries with Li PS (LPS) glass electrolyte and sulfur/LPS glass/carbon composite cathode. Using a three-electrode system, the anode and cathode potentials are separated, and their polarization resistances are individually traced. Even under high-cutoff-voltage conditions (3.

Oxygen deficient layered double perovskite as an active cathode for CO2 electrolysis using a solid oxide conductor.

A-site ordered PrBaMn2O(5+δ) was investigated as a potential cathode for CO2 electrolysis using a La(0.9)Sr(0.1)Ga(0.

Layered oxygen-deficient double perovskite as an efficient and stable anode for direct hydrocarbon solid oxide fuel cells.

Different layered perovskite-related oxides are known to exhibit important electronic, magnetic and electrochemical properties. Owing to their excellent mixed-ionic and electronic conductivity and fast oxygen kinetics, cation layered double perovskite oxides such as PrBaCo2O5 in particular have exhibited excellent properties as solid oxide fuel cell oxygen electrodes. Here, we show for the first time that related layered materials can be used as high-performance fuel electrodes.

Self-recovery of Pd nanoparticles that were dispersed over La(Sr)Fe(Mn)O3 for intelligent oxide anodes of solid-oxide fuel cells.

Self-recovery is one of the most-desirable properties for functional materials. Recently, oxide anodes have attracted significant attention as alternative anode materials for solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) that can overcome reoxidation, deactivation, and coke-deposition. However, the electrical conductivity and surface activity of the most-widely used oxide anodes remain unsatisfactory.

Doped CeO2-LaFeO3 composite oxide as an active anode for direct hydrocarbon-type solid oxide fuel cells.

Direct utilization of hydrocarbon and other renewable fuels is one of the most important issues concerning solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Mixed ionic and electronic conductors (MIECs) have been explored as anode materials for direct hydrocarbon-type SOFCs. However, electrical conductivity of the most often reported MIEC oxide electrodes is still not satisfactory.

Chromatin regulation during C. elegans germline development.

Recent studies in Caenorhabditis elegans implicate PcG- and NuRD-like chromatin regulators in the establishment and maintenance of germline-soma distinctions. Somatic cells appear to utilize NuRD-related nucleosome-remodeling factors to overwrite germline-specific chromatin states that are specified through PcG-like activities. The germline, in turn, may rely on an asymmetrically inherited inhibitor to prevent chromatin reorganization that would otherwise erase pluripotency.

BTB proteins are substrate-specific adaptors in an SCF-like modular ubiquitin ligase containing CUL-3.

Programmed destruction of regulatory proteins through the ubiquitin-proteasome system is a widely used mechanism for controlling signalling pathways. Cullins are proteins that function as scaffolds for modular ubiquitin ligases typified by the SCF (Skp1-Cul1-F-box) complex. The substrate selectivity of these E3 ligases is dictated by a specificity module that binds cullins.

MEP-1 and a homolog of the NURD complex component Mi-2 act together to maintain germline-soma distinctions in C. elegans.

A rapid cascade of regulatory events defines the developmental fates of embryonic cells. However, once established, these developmental fates and the underlying transcriptional programs can be remarkably stable. Here, we describe two proteins, MEP-1 and LET-418/Mi-2, required for maintenance of somatic differentiation in C.