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A silicon based material in the form of sheet-like silicon porous particles in an electrically conductive material matrix wherein said silicon particles contain nano-sized pores, and a method of producing thereof, are disclosed. The material and the method allow obtaining Li ion batteries with high electric charge capacity and improved cycling performance of the battery anode.
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Forming a conductive film comprising depositing a non-conductive film on a surface of a substrate, wherein the film contains a plurality of copper nanoparticles and exposing at least a portion of the film to light to make the exposed portion conductive. Exposing of the film to light photosinters or fuses the copper nanoparticles.
Abstract:
An ion trap instrument working at atmospheric pressure, which alleviates requirements of bulky, power consuming vacuum pumps. Traps can accumulate selected ion species, effectively concentrating the analyte of interest and allowing laser spectroscopy to be performed. This lowers the detection threshold of this instrument compared to others and increases the selectivity.
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A gas sensor with instant response uses one or more oscillators while no chemical reactions or other material modifications are involved. Sensor can be used in any application to measure a percent range of gas concentrations, or mass of the absorbed gas.
Abstract:
The present invention is for a porous silicon powder comprising silicon particles wherein the outermost layers of said particles are porous. The present invention is also directed to a method of making this porous silicon powder using a stain etch method. The present invention is also directed to a method of making silicon nanoparticles from the porous silicon powders using a process of ultrasonic agitation. The present invention also includes methods of processing these silicon nanoparticles for use in a variety of applications.
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A device for sensing hydrogen based on palladium or palladium alloy nanoparticles, wherein the nanoparticles are deposited on a resistive substrate, to permit sensing of less than 1% hydrogen; wherein the nanoparticles are deposited as islands on a continuous resistive layer.
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A nanoparticle based sensor in which smaller particles are seeded at a higher density to produce a faster response time than that of a sensor using larger particles and less dense seeding. The nanoparticles may comprise palladium nanoparticles. The sensor may be used in hydrogen fuel cells.
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A method of micro- and nanotexturing of various solid surfaces in plasma where carbon nanotubes are used as an etch mask. The method allows obtaining textures with feature sizes that can be controlled with the nanotube dimensions and the density of coating the treated surface.
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Field emission properties may also be improved by coating the carbon materials with metal oxides. These metal oxides contribute to lowering the work function of the carbon material as well as improve the life of the field emission properties of the carbon materials, especially under high current density operation.
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A field emission cold cathode utilizes a film of carbon flake field emitters deposited thereon. The carbon flakes may exhibit rolled edges, but are still sufficient to provide improved field emission characteristics. A cold cathode using such carbon flake field emitters can be utilized to produce afield emission flat panel display, which can be implemented for use with a computer system.