To compensate for the loss of irreversible capacity of lithium-ion battery, the silicate glass-ceramic containing LiYF4 crystals (YLFGC) is prepared by melting-annealing and then used as an active material to improve this situation. At the current density of 50 mA g-1, the specific capacity is...

The ~3.5 µm mid-infrared laser based on a high concentration of Er 3+ -doped multicomponent glasses possesses unique advantages, but the existing traditional glass hosts, that are inherently flawed, lead to challenging research. In this paper, oxyhalide glass with tellurite (as the main body)...

Methanol decomposition over alkali-leached Ni3Sn powder at 513–793 K was investigated. Compared with untreated Ni3Sn, alkali-leached Ni3Sn had high catalytic activity and selectivity toward H2 and CO production above 633 K. A maximum H2 production rate of...

Sulfonic acid functionalized mesoporous SBA-15 materials were prepared using the co-condensation and grafting methods, respectively, and their catalytic performance in the dehydration of xylose to furfural was examined. SBA-15-SO₃H(C) prepared by the co-condensation method showed 92–95% xylose...

Structural models can assess the effectiveness of fishery management prospectively and retrospectively. However, when only fishery-dependent data are available, structural econometric models are highly nonlinear in the parameters, and maximum likelihood and other extremum-based estimators can...

This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted U- shaped relationship between temperature and TFP and...