Sulphonated Reduced Graphene Oxide: A High Performance Anode Material for Lithium Ion Battery

Haibo Li,Rui Niu,Sen Liang,Yulong Ma,Min Luo,Jin Li,Lijun He 성균관대학교(자연과학캠퍼스) 성균나노과학기술원 2015 NANO Vol.10 No.4

In this work, the sulfonated reduced graphene oxide (SRGO) was synthesized and proposed as an enhanced anode material for lithium ion battery (LIB). The result shows that the SRGO has an improved battery performance (i.e., ~341.7 mAh/g and ~190.6 mAh/g corresponds to SRGO and RGO at the 100th cycle with a current density of 200 mA/g) and superior cycling stability compared with pristine reduced graphene oxide (RGO). These are attributed to the improved specific surface area (448.35 m2 /g) and conductivity (2.5 x 10-4 S/m). Further, the SRGO exhibits good rate capability and excellent energy density at various current densities ranging from 50 mAh/g to 2000 mAh/g, suggesting that SRGO could be a promising anode material for high capacity LIB.

Experimental Study on Shear Behavior of Precast Concrete Segmental Beams with Hybrid Tendons and Dry Joints

Haibo Jiang,Yuhong Li,Airong Liu,Li Chen,Yuanhang Chen,Jie Xiao 대한토목학회 2019 KSCE JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING Vol.23 No.10

A series of tests were carried out on nine specimens to improve the understanding of the shear behavior of precast concrete segmental beams (PCSBs) with hybrid tendons and dry joints. The influences of the tendon layout (hybrid tendons and external tendons), shear span ratio, and joint type (monolithic joints, and dry joints) on shear behavior of PCSBs were experimentally studied. The test results indicated that hybrid tendons slightly improved the shear strength and stiffness of PCSBs with dry joints compared to external tendons. The shear strengths of PCSBs with hybrid tendons and dry joints reduced with an increasing shear span ratio. Compared to monolithic beams with hybrid tendons, the dry joints slightly decreased the shear strength and enhanced the nonlinear behavior of PCSBs with hybrid tendons. The shear strengths of PCSBs and monolithic beams can be conservatively predicted by the AASHTO, Chinese code, and British Standard. The strut-and-tie model of prestressing force can accurately estimate the shear strengths of all the beams.

The Correlation between Thyrotropin and Dyslipidemia in a Population-based Study

Li Lu,Beibei Wang,Zhongyan Shan,Fengwei Jiang,Xiaochun Teng,Yanyan Chen,Yaxin Lai,Jiani Wang,Haibo Xue,Sen Wang,Chenyan Li,He Liu,Ningna Li,Jiashu Yu,Liangfeng Shi,Xin Hou,Qian Xing,Xue Bai,Weiping Te 대한의학회 2011 Journal of Korean medical science Vol.26 No.2

This study investigated the relationship between serum thyrotrophin levels and dyslipidemia in subclinical hypothyroid and euthyroid subjects. A total of 110 subjects with subclinical hypothyroidism and 1,240 euthyroid subjects enrolled in this study. Patients with subclinical hypothyroidism had significantly lower high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels than those who were euthyroid. The lipid profiles were each categorized and mean thyrotrophin levels were higher in subjects in the dyslipidemia subclasses than subjects in the normal subclasses. Thyrotrophin was positively associated with serum triglyceride and negatively associated with serum HDL-C in women. Thyrotrophin was also positively associated with total cholesterol (TC) in the overweight population along with TC and LDL-C in overweight women. In the euthyroid population, thyrotrophin was positively associated with TC in the overweight population. In conclusion, serum thyrotrophin was correlated with dyslipidemia in subclinical hypothyroid and euthyroid subjects; the correlation was independent of insulin sensitivity.

Incomplete Cholesky Decomposition based Kernel Cross Modal Factor Analysis for Audiovisual Continuous Dimensional Emotion Recognition

( Xia Li ),( Guanming Lu ),( Jingjie Yan ),( Haibo Li ),( Zhengyan Zhang ),( Ning Sun ),( Shipeng Xie ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2019 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.13 No.2

Recently, continuous dimensional emotion recognition from audiovisual clues has attracted increasing attention in both theory and in practice. The large amount of data involved in the recognition processing decreases the efficiency of most bimodal information fusion algorithms. A novel algorithm, namely the incomplete Cholesky decomposition based kernel cross factor analysis (ICDKCFA), is presented and employed for continuous dimensional audiovisual emotion recognition, in this paper. After the ICDKCFA feature transformation, two basic fusion strategies, namely feature-level fusion and decision-level fusion, are explored to combine the transformed visual and audio features for emotion recognition. Finally, extensive experiments are conducted to evaluate the ICDKCFA approach on the AVEC 2016 Multimodal Affect Recognition Sub-Challenge dataset. The experimental results show that the ICDKCFA method has a higher speed than the original kernel cross factor analysis with the comparable performance. Moreover, the ICDKCFA method achieves a better performance than other common information fusion methods, such as the Canonical correlation analysis, kernel canonical correlation analysis and cross-modal factor analysis based fusion methods.

Impact of Grafting Density on the Self-Assembly and Hydrophilicity of Succinylated Collagen

Wenxin Wang,Feiyi Shu,Lingyu Pan,Shanshan Huang,Xiao Tu,Ping Li,Siman Li,Yuanyuan Li,Chengzhi Xu,Yang Sun,Juntao Zhang,Haibo Wang 한국고분자학회 2020 Macromolecular Research Vol.28 No.6

Modification of protein could give their new functionality but would affect their intrinsic property and activity. In this paper, a series of succinylated collagen (SCol(n/1)) (n≥1) were prepared by modification of collagen with succinic anhydride at different molar ratio to amino groups amount of collagen. The impact of grafting density on the intrinsic self-assembly and additional hydrophilicity of succinylated collagen was explored. The results revealed that excessive grafting density of succinylated collagen would improve their hydrophilicity but weaken their self-assembly property, although the triple helix of collagen could be reserved after succinylation. SCol(1/1) (grafting density of 17%) with self-assembly property and good hydrophilicity was chosen to compare with native collagen. Compared to native collagen, thermostability of SCol(1/1) decreased slightly, however, SCol(1/1) could form softer hydrogel, which was more favorable for the proliferation of NIH/3 T3. The present work would help us to further understand the importance of grafting density for the design of modified collagen with intrinsic self-assembly property and additional new functionality.

Enhanced 2,5-Furandicarboxylic Acid (FDCA) Production in Raoultella ornithinolytica BF60 by Manipulation of the Key Genes in FDCA Biosynthesis Pathway

( Haibo Yuan ),( Yanfeng Liu ),( Xueqin Lv ),( Jianghua Li ),( Guocheng Du ),( Zhongping Shi ),( Long Liu ) 한국미생물 · 생명공학회 2018 Journal of microbiology and biotechnology Vol.28 No.12

The compound 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), an important bio-based monomer for the production of various polymers, can be obtained from 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). However, efficient production of FDCA from HMF via biocatalysis has not been well studied. In this study, we report the identification of key genes that are involved in FDCA synthesis and then the engineering of Raoultella ornithinolytica BF60 for biocatalytic oxidation of HMF to FDCA using its resting cells. Specifically, previously unknown candidate genes, adhP3 and alkR, which were responsible for the reduction of HMF to the undesired product 2,5- bis(hydroxymethyl)furan (HMF alcohol), were identified by transcriptomic analysis. Combinatorial deletion of these two genes resulted in 85.7% reduction in HMF alcohol formation and 23.7% improvement in FDCA production (242.0 mM). Subsequently, an aldehyde dehydrogenase, AldH, which was responsible for the oxidation of the intermediate 5-formyl-2-furoic acid (FFA) to FDCA, was identified and characterized. Finally, FDCA production was further improved by overexpressing AldH, resulting in a 96.2% yield of 264.7 mM FDCA. Importantly, the identification of these key genes not only contributes to our understanding of the FDCA synthesis pathway in R. ornithinolytica BF60 but also allows for improved FDCA production efficiency. Moreover, this work is likely to provide a valuable reference for producing other furanic chemicals.

Fast Hardware Implementations of Inversions in Small Finite Fields for Special Irreducible Polynomials on FPGAs

Haibo Yi,Weijian Li,Zhe Nie 보안공학연구지원센터 2016 International Journal of Security and Its Applicat Vol.10 No.9

Inversions in small finite fields are the most computationally intensive field arithmetic and have been playing a key role in areas of cryptography and engineering. The main algorithms for small finite field inversions are based on Fermat's little theorem, extended Euclidean algorithm, Itoh-Tsujii algorithm and other methods. In this brief, we present techniques to exploit special irreducible polynomials for fast inversions in small finite fields GF(2n) , where n is a positive integer and 0 < n < 16 . Then, we propose fast inversions based on Fermat's theorem for two special irreducible polynomials in small finite fields, i.e. trinomials and All-One-Polynomials (AOPs). Trinomials can be represented by polynomials xn + xm + 1 and AOPs can be represented by polynomials xn + Xn-1 + ... +1 , where m is a positive integer and 0 < m < n . Our designs have low hardware requirements, regular structures and are therefore suitable for hardware implementation. After that, our designs are programmed in Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language (VHDL) by using integrated environment Altera Quartus II and implemented on a low-cost Field- Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The experimental results on FPGAs show that our designs provide significant reductions in executing time of inversions in small finite fields, e.g. the executing time of inversion in GF(27) is 18.80 ns and the executing time of inversion in GF(212) is 29.57 ns.

Axial behavior of RC column strengthened with SM-CFST

Haibo Jiang,Jiahang Li,Quan Cheng,Jie Xiao,Zhenkan Chen 국제구조공학회 2022 Steel and Composite Structures, An International J Vol.43 No.6

This paper aims to investigate the axial compressive behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) columns strengthened with self-compacting and micro-expanding (SM) concrete-filled steel tubes (SM-CFSTs). Nine specimens were tested in total under the local axial compression. The test parameters included steel tube thickness, filling concrete strength, filling concrete type and initial axial preloading. The test results demonstrated that the initial stiffness, ultimate bearing capacity and ductility of original RC columns were improved after being strengthened by SM-CFSTs. The ultimate bearing capacity of the SM-CFST strengthened RC columns was significantly enhanced with the increase of steel tube thickness. The initial stiffness and ultimate bearing capacity of the SM-CFST strengthened RC columns were slightly enhanced with the increase of filling concrete strength. However, the effect of filling concrete type and initial axial preloading of the SM-CFST strengthened RC columns were negligible. Three equations for predicting the ultimate bearing capacity of the SM-CFST strengthened RC columns were compared, and the modified equation based on Chinese code (GB 50936-2014) was more precise.

Experimental Study on Dynamic Interaction between Large U-Shape Aqueduct and Water

Haibo Wang,Chunlei Li,Lijun Zhao 대한토목학회 2022 KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering Vol.26 No.3

Hydrodynamic interaction between water and structure plays an important role in the evaluation of seismic response of aqueducts in area of high seismicity. This interaction differs in axial, lateral and vertical direction of aqueduct. Both impulsive and convective effects of water exist in lateral direction. In presented study, shaking table tests were conducted with a1/10 model of U-shape aqueduct, of 30 m long, to study the hydrodynamic interaction. With the analyses of aqueduct and water responses to stationary White Noise excitations as well as non-stationary excitations, impulsive and convective effects of water were deduced quantitatively. Characteristic frequencies and corresponding modes of aqueduct were identified with the transfer functions of acceleration, sloshing frequencies in lateral direction were recognized with the transfer functions of seat force. Impulsive mass was deduced from the alteration in fundamental frequency and the corresponding modal seat forces of the aqueduct with and without water. Convective mass was obtained from the wave height of sloshing and lateral seat forces recorded, or the lateral modal seat force and damping ratio. Comparison was made with those given in simplified methods for rigid structure. Observed hydrodynamic pressure on the structure in the test was smaller than that based on the rigid assumption.

Improved thermal conductivity of sintered reaction-bonded silicon nitride using a BN/graphite powder bed

Li, Yinsheng,Kim, Ha-Neul,Wu, Haibo,Kim, Mi-Ju,Ko, Jae-Woong,Kim, Jin-Myung,Park, Young-Jo,Huang, Zhengren,Kim, Hai-Doo Elsevier Science Publishers 2017 Journal of the European Ceramic Society Vol. No.

<P><B>Abstract</B></P> <P>Sintered reaction-bonded silicon nitride (SRBSN) with improved thermal conductivity was achieved after the green compact of submicron Si powder containing 4.22wt% impurity oxygen and Y<SUB>2</SUB>O<SUB>3</SUB>-MgO additives was nitrided at 1400°C for 6h and then post-sintered at 1900°C for 12h using a BN/graphite powder bed. During nitridation, the BN/10wt%C powder bed altered the chemistry of secondary phase by promoting the removal of SiO<SUB>2</SUB>, which led to the formation of larger, purer and more elongated Si<SUB>3</SUB>N<SUB>4</SUB> grains in RBSN sample. Moreover, it also enhanced the elimination of SiO<SUB>2</SUB> and residual Y<SUB>2</SUB>Si<SUB>3</SUB>O<SUB>3</SUB>N<SUB>4</SUB> secondary phase during post-sintering, and thus induced larger elongated grains, decreased lattice oxygen content and increased Si<SUB>3</SUB>N<SUB>4</SUB>-Si<SUB>3</SUB>N<SUB>4</SUB> contiguity in final SRBSN product. These characteristics enabled SRBSN to obtain significant increase (∼40.7%) in thermal conductivity from 86 to 121 W∙m<SUP>−1</SUP> ∙K<SUP>−1</SUP> without obvious decrease in electrical resistivity after the use of BN/graphite instead of BN as powder bed.</P>