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The present invention discloses a novel electrode-catalyst for direct methanol fuel cell prepared by introducing a carbon precursor into pores of a wormhole-like molecular sieve template, carbonizing the carbon precursor, removing the molecular sieve template to obtain a wormhole-like mesoporous carbon having a high specific surface of 800-1000 m2 / g and a pore size of 4-5 nm, and depositing catalyst metal such as Pt—Ru on the mesoporous carbon.

There is disclosed a method of controlling pore size in a porous material comprising the steps of: providing a porous material comprising a plurality of interconnected auxetic fibres; and applying a tensile or compressive load to the porous material so as to vary the pore size of the porous material in order to produce a desired effect.

An ammonia purification system includes a hydrocarbon removal station that removes hydrocarbons from gaseous ammonia via adsorption, a moisture removal station that removes water from gaseous ammonia via adsorption, and a distillation station including a distillation column connected with a condenser to facilitate removal of impurities from ammonia and condensation of gaseous ammonia to form a purified liquid ammonia product. The system further includes a storage tank to receive purified ammonia, a remote station connected with the storage tank, and a vaporizer connected with the storage tank. The vaporizer is configured to receive and vaporize liquid ammonia from the storage tank and deliver gaseous ammonia back to the storage tank so as to facilitate pumping of the ammonia to the remote station based upon a vapor pressure established within the storage tank.

Provided is a urethane resin composition for a moisture-permeable waterproof sheet which has excellent moisture permeability, waterproofness, chemical-resistance to insecticide, an organic solvent, etc., and superior durability, a moisture-permeable waterproof sheet, and a method of manufacturing the same. The polyurethane resin composition for a moisture-permeable waterproof sheet includes a hydrophilic polyurethane resin (A), organic polyisocyanate (B) having polyisocyanate (B0) with a functional number of 3 or more, and an organic solvent (C). Further, the hydrophilic polyurethane resin (A) includes high-molecular diol (d) having an oxyethylene group, organic diisocyanate (e), and a chain extender (f), and a content of an oxyethylene group is preferably 10 to 80 mass %. Also, the organic polyisocyanate (B) is at least one selected from the group consisting of aliphatic polyisocyanate and alicyclic polyisocyanate which have an average functional number of from 2.3 to 5.

The invention discloses a preparation method of active carbon based on cellulose aerogel. The preparation method comprises following steps: air-dried corn leaf and corn skin are collected via peeling, and are subjected to shearing, mixing, grinding, and sieving so as to obtain a qualified raw material; the qualified raw material is subjected to hydrogen peroxide / potassium hydroxide treatment so as to obtain corn biomass cellulose; the corn biomass cellulose is subjected to swelling via low temperature sodium hydroxide / urea method, and is subjected to heating to realize gelatinization, and low temperature liquid nitrogen treatment is carried out so as to prepare a cellulose aerogel; the cellulose aerogel is subjected to segment heating carbonization drying in nitrogen, and high temperature activation of the processed cellulose aerogel with carbon dioxide is carried out, so that the carbonaceous adsorbent with relatively large specific surface area and pore volume is obtained. The active carbon prepared via the preparation method possesses a black large particle structure, and possesses relatively high adsorption capacity on carbon dioxide.

A powder sprayer comprises a bottle body, a pump body, a piston and an elastic element and is characterized in that a hollow delivery pipe is arranged in a piston of the pump body, the upper end of the hollow delivery pipe is communicated with a nozzle of a cap, and the lower end of the delivery pipe is communicated with a middle hole in the pump body. The upper end of a connector is connected with the lower end of the pump body, the connector comprises a powder outlet channel communicated with the delivery pipe, a base used for mixing powder and air flow is arranged at the bottom of the powder outlet channel, and a powder inlet is formed and communicated with a bottle body inner cavity. The connector further comprises an air flow channel, an air inlet of the air flow channel is communicated with a piston cavity, and an air outlet is communicated with the base. A manipulator mechanism is arranged in the bottle body inner cavity and at least comprises a manipulator, and the upper end of the manipulator is connected with the cap or the piston through a transmission mechanism. The powder sprayer has the advantages of being simple in structure, convenient and quick to use and good in powder spraying effect.

A honeycomb structure 10 of the present invention is provided with porous partition walls 12 made of a ceramic material containing cordierite as a main crystal phase and separating and forming a plurality of cells 14 functioning as fluid passages. The partition walls 12 contain sodium at 0.08 to 0.15 mass % in terms of sodium oxide. A honeycomb structure having a large average pore size can be provided.

An ammonia purification system includes a hydrocarbon removal station that removes hydrocarbons from gaseous ammonia via adsorption, a moisture removal station that removes water from gaseous ammonia via adsorption, and a distillation station including a distillation column connected with a condenser to facilitate removal of impurities from ammonia and condensation of gaseous ammonia to form a purified liquid ammonia product. The system further includes a storage tank to receive purified ammonia, a remote station connected with the storage tank, and a vaporizer connected with the storage tank. The vaporizer is configured to receive and vaporize liquid ammonia from the storage tank and deliver gaseous ammonia back to the storage tank so as to facilitate pumping of the ammonia to the remote station based upon a vapor pressure established within the storage tank.

Liposomes of a size of less than 200 nanometers target tumors and preferentially deliver imipramine blue to tumors, including brain tumors such as gliomas. The imipramine blue decreases the invasiveness of the tumors, and inhibits tumor metastasis. The liposomes include cholesterol and chemically pure phospholipids that are essentially neutral and contain saturated fatty acids of between 16 and 18 carbon atoms, such as distearoylphosphatidyl choline, and can also include one or more pegylated phospholipids, such as DSPE-PEG.

The invention provides a simple, rapid and cost-effective metal oxide-assisted laser desorption / ionization mass spectrometry (MOALDI MS) without the addition of light-absorbing organic-matrix, comprising the use of (a) an inorganic metal oxide with light absorbing capability as an assisting material to render desorption / ionization of samples in laser desorption / ionization mass spectrometry and (b) a citric acid buffer as the proton source for enhancing the ionization efficiency for analytes. Metal oxide assisting materials is not only restricted to the uses of films. Metal oxide nanoparticles are also suitable to be used as the assisting materials. Low matrix background, stable surface feature, homogeneous sample deposition, and wide detectable mass range are the merits of MOALDI MS.

The invention discloses a method for preparing activated carbon from semi-coke and a device used in the method. The method comprises the following steps of: taking semi-coke of which the volatile matter is greater than 5% and the thermal stability is greater than 70%, screening and feeding the semi-coke of which the granularity is 5-20mm into a rake-type activating furnace (8) to be subjected to activation treatment to generate the activated carbon; discharging the activated carbon from the rake-type activating furnace (8), cooling at a helix cooling machine (6) and conveying through a belt conveyer (7); and finally entering an activated carbon packaging period to be selected and packaged. According to the method, the structural characteristics of organic matter components and micro-pores of a semi-coke product are sufficiently utilized, and with the combination of the operation control principle of the domestic activation furnace, a novel process control method is innovated, and the activation process of the rake-type furnace is applied to the production process of the semi-coke-made activated carbon, so that the activation process control precision of a product is greatly improved, activated carbon products of higher quality are produced, the additional value of a semi-coke product is greatly increased, the application space of the semi-coke is widened, and the market requirements of the activated carbon are met.

The present invention relates to a method for providing an embedded mammalian cell, comprising the steps of providing an alginate sulfate in aqueous solution; reacting the alginate sulfate to form a hydrogel in a gelation step, providing a precursor cell, and embedding the precursor cell in the sulfated alginate hydrogel in an embedding step, thus yielding an sulfated alginate hydrogel embedded cell. The invention further relates to sulfated alginate hydrogels, and cellular grafts comprising a mammalian cell embedded in sulfated alginate hydrogel.

A metal oxide catalyst precursor composition comprises a pore former and a catalyst reagent.

Disclosed are mesoporous silica particles and a preparation method thereof, particularly, a method of preparing mesoporous silica particles, including mixing a silica precursor, an alkylamine-based surfactant, and a phosphoric acid-based cosurfactant, thus preparing a mixture solution (a mother liquor); adding or not adding the mixture solution with an acid solution, and conducting stirring, thus providing mesoporous silica particles; and thermally treating the mesoporous silica particles. These mesoporous silica particles are prepared using a phosphoric acid-based cosurfactant for stabilizing the surface of the particles to prevent the aggregation thereof, thereby uniformly distributing the particles. Through a hydrothermal reaction, the mesoporous silica particles have various pore sizes, a large surface area, and a high pore volume, and thus are widely used in catalysts, adsorbents, low dielectrics, and separation and purification processes, and are useful as templates for the preparation of novel porous materials, including porous carbon.

A method for producing zeolite or zeotype crystals with a hierarchical pore system having both pores with average diameter between 0.3-2 nm and pores with an average diameter size larger than 4 nm in diameter, comprising the steps of applying a carbohydrate or a carbohydrate solution onto a zeolite precursor material or into a zeolite precursor composition, partly or fully decomposing the carbohydrate, crystallizing the zeolite, removing the partly or fully decomposed carbohydrate by calcination or combustion.

The present invention discloses a novel electrode-catalyst for direct methanol fuel cell prepared by introducing a carbon precursor into pores of a wormhole-like molecular sieve template, carbonizing the carbon precursor, removing the molecular sieve template to obtain a wormhole-like mesoporous carbon having a high specific surface of 800-1000 m2 / g and a pore size of 4-5 nm, and depositing catalyst metal such as Pt—Ru on the mesoporous carbon.

A battery separator has performance enhancing additives or coatings, fillers with increased friability, increased ionic diffusion, decreased tortuosity, increased wettability, reduced oil content, reduced thickness, decreased electrical resistance, and / or increased porosity. The separator in a battery reduces the water loss, lowers acid stratification, lowers the voltage drop, and / or increases the CCA. The separators include or exhibit performance enhancing additives or coatings, increased porosity, increased void volume, amorphous silica, higher oil absorption silica, higher silanol group silica, reduced electrical resistance, a shish-kebab structure or morphology, a polyolefin microporous membrane containing particle-like filler in an amount of 40% or more by weight of the membrane and ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene having shish-kebab formations and the average repetition periodicity of the kebab formation from 1 nm to 150 nm, decreased sheet thickness, decreased tortuosity, separators especially well-suited for enhanced flooded batteries.

A pretreatment method for increasing the average pore size of a catalyst support is disclosed which increases the diffusivity and effectiveness factor η. The pretreatment method includes calcining the support in moisturized air at an elevated temperature sufficient to increase the average pore size. In some embodiments, the support may be treated with an acidic / basic solution prior to the calcination step. Alternatively, the calcination step may occur in a gas mixture including water / air / acidic (or basic) gases.

Electrolyte supply tanks and bubbler tanks for oxyhydrogen gas generation systems are provided which eliminate the introduction of electrolyte and water into the induction systems of internal combustion engines. Both types of tanks are equipped with porous polyethylene gas diffusers which break up incoming gas into microscopic bubbles, thereby facilitating the absorption of electrolyte mist and droplets returning to the electrolyte supply tank and minimizing splashing of incoming gas in bubbler tanks. Air diffusers having an average pore diameter of about 70 μm are installed near the bottom of the electrolyte supply tanks, while air diffusers having an average pore diameter of about 35 μm are installed near the bottom of the bubbler tanks.

It is intended to provide a blood purification membrane having excellent performance and showing little elution of blood and little adhesion of blood proteins or platelets. The above object can be achieved by using a moisten membrane, which is free from any membrane pore-sustaining agent and has a high water permeation dose and a large pore size, and lessening the pore size by drying the membrane after desolvation.

A microporous polyethylene membrane made of a polyethylene resin having a ratio (mass-average molecular weight / number-average molecular weight) of 5 to 300 and comprising 1% or more by mass of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene having a mass-average molecular weight of 7×105 or more, the microporous polyethylene membrane comprising (a) a coarse-structure layer having an average pore diameter of more than 0.04 μm, which is formed on at least one surface, and (b) a dense-structure layer having an average pore diameter of 0.04 μm or less, an area ratio of the coarse-structure layer to the dense-structure layer in a membrane cross section being 0.1 to 0.8.

The invention provides a simple, rapid and cost-effective metal oxide-assisted laser desorption / ionization mass spectrometry (MOALDI MS) without the addition of light-absorbing organic-matrix, comprising the use of (a) an inorganic metal oxide with light absorbing capability as an assisting material to render desorption / ionization of samples in laser desorption / ionization mass spectrometry and (b) a citric acid buffer as the proton source for enhancing the iorization efficiency for analytes. Metal oxide assisting materials is not only restricted to the uses of films. Metal oxide nanoparticles are also suitable to be used as the assisting materials. Low matrix background, stable surface feature, homogeneous sample deposition, and wide detectable mass range are the merits of MOALDI MS.

A hollow-fiber porous membrane, comprising a hollow fiber-form porous membrane in a network texture of vinylidene fluoride resin showing a pore size distribution in a direction of its membrane thickness including an outer surface-average pore size P1 as measured by a scanning electron microscope and a membrane layer-average pore size P2 as measured by half-dry method giving a ratio P1 / P2 of at least 2.5. The hollow-fiber porous membrane is excellent in long-term water filtration performance including efficiency of regeneration by air scrubbing. The hollow-fiber porous membrane is produced through a process, wherein a mixture of vinylidene fluoride resin, a plasticizer and a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin, is melt-extruded in a hollow-fiber film and cooled and formed into a solidified film within a cooling medium containing at least a certain proportion of a good solvent for vinylidene fluoride resin.

The invention relates to a nano yarn reinforcement electrostatic spinning fiber texture engineering scaffold and a method for producing the same. The method comprises the processes of building a production device, preparing poly-L-lactic acid / hexafluoroisopropanol electrostatic spinning solution, connecting with high pressure to carry out electrostatic spinning, combining nano fibers to form yarns, collecting nano yarns and nano fibers and the like. The texture engineering scaffold has good tensile mechanical property and is beneficial to keeping the integral structure of the scaffold during the material processing and texture regenerating processes; and the scaffold has large pores to facilitate cells to move into the texture. In addition, the scaffold also has the characteristics of simplicity in producing method and convenience in operation, and is expected to be applied to industrial production. The method is convenient to operate and is low in cost, the tensile mechanical property and pore size of a common electrostatic spinning nano fiber scaffold can be effectively improved, and the method is expected to be applied to the fields of tissues and organs of tendon, ligament, mules, vessel and the like which have high requirements on the tensile mechanical property.

An insulating (nonconductive) microporous polymeric battery separator comprised of a single layer of enmeshed microfibers and nanofibers is provided. Such a separator accords the ability to attune the porosity and pore size to any desired level through a single nonwoven fabric. Through a proper selection of materials as well as production processes, the resultant battery separator exhibits isotropic strengths, low shrinkage, high wettability levels, and pore sizes related directly to layer thickness. The overall production method is highly efficient and yields a combination of polymeric nanofibers within a polymeric microfiber matrix and / or onto such a substrate through high shear processing that is cost effective as well. The separator, a battery including such a separator, the method of manufacturing such a separator, and the method of utilizing such a separator within a battery device, are all encompassed within this invention.

The invention discloses a carbon nano tube reinforced aluminum alloy composite material prepared through squeeze casting method, which relates to a preparation method of carbon nano tube reinforced metal composite material. The invention solves the problem that the distribution of the carbon nano tube in the carbon nano tube reinforced aluminum alloy composite material obtained through the existing preparation method is not even, and the interfacial associativity of the carbon nano tube and the metal base body is poor. The method is as follows: 1, the mixed solution is prepared; 2, the mixed solution is processed in ultrasonic way; 3, the step 2 is repeated; 4, the dried precast block is prepared; 5, the sintered precast block is prepared; 6, melting aluminum alloy is infiltrated to holes of the sintered precast block under the pressure role, and is solidified under the pressure role to obtain the carbon nano tube reinforced aluminum alloy composite material. The carbon nano tubes in the carbon nano tube reinforced aluminum alloy composite material obtained in the invention are evenly distributed, and the interfacial associativity is good.

A cell culture bag is provided, comprising a framed porous inner fluoropolymer bag that allows for growing and harvesting cells and an outer fluoropolymer bag that allows removal and replenishing feed media without loss of cells.