Abstract:
As a method for improving the service life of a Li-ion battery, a supramolecular structure of acrylic acid which is a polymer formed by aggregating m number (an aggregation degree of m) of single chains each including n number (a polymerization degree of n) of acrylic acid monomers connected to each other, and has a constricted (narrowing) channel structure in which the single chains are arranged in a circle on the xy plane, a main chain is oriented along the direction of a central axis in the z direction, and a carboxyl group in a side chain is oriented along a direction perpendicular to the central axis in the z direction is used. As a result of an interaction between this constricted channel structure and an organic solvent molecule, the organic solvent molecule is captured inside the constricted channel structure, and the diffusion of the organic solvent molecule is inhibited.
Abstract:
In a method of predicting a lifetime of a lithium-ion battery, measurement data ηexp of a capacity retention η vs the number of charge and discharge cycles Ni in the lithium-ion battery is first input. Then, a physical parameter p such as a reaction velocity factor for allowing solvent molecules reduced and decomposed by a negative electrode to react with a lithium ion dissolved in a electrolyte solution to generate a precursor of a solid electrolyte inter-phase in the physical model is set in a physical model. Calculation data ηth of the capacity retention η vs the number of charge and discharge cycles Ni in the physical model is calculated with the use of two or more diffusion coefficients DSEI and DpNE to the solvent molecules. A mean square error Oth (DSEI, DpNE) of the measurement data ηexp and the calculation data ηth in the number of charge and discharge cycles Ni are calculated. Then, values DSEI and DpNE of the diffusion coefficients where the mean square error Oth (DSEI, DpNE) is minimal are selected.
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to provide an artificial olfactory sensing system capable of sniffing out various odors highly sensitively.The artificial olfactory sensing system includes: plural sensor cells on a lipid membrane of each of which olfactory receptors have developed; and plural ion-sensitive field-effect transistors (ISFETs) that correspondingly exist to the sensor cells on a one-on-one basis. A response signal showing that each of the olfactory receptors of each of the sensor cells has recognized an odor molecule is converted into an electric signal by an ISFET corresponding to each of the sensor cells.
Abstract:
A computer includes a data generation unit and a storage unit which retains graph information for managing a graph configured from a plurality of vertexes and sides. The data generation unit performs acquiring a plurality of data and graph information and assuring storage regions in number equal to the number of vertexes, converting each data into an input value and setting at least one input value to a storage region corresponding to at least one vertex, executing an updating process for updating a value set to a storage region corresponding to a first vertex using the value set to the storage region corresponding to the first vertex and a value set to a storage region corresponding to a different vertex directly connected to the first vertex, and outputting a set of values set to the storage regions corresponding to the vertexes as the feature value.
Abstract:
There is a provided a chemical sensor that includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a first electrode that is formed on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second electrode that is disposed to face the first electrode in a vertical direction, a flow path in which a liquid or a gas can flow between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a chemical substance capturing portion that is disposed in at least a partial region between the first electrode and the second electrode in the flow path, and bonded with a predetermined chemical substance, and in which a distance between the first electrode and the second electrode is set to be 2 nm or more and 200 nm or less, and a change in dielectric constant between the first electrode and the second electrode is detected.