Papers by Keyword: Recent Progress

Abstract: The plasma sheath can be regarded as a model of a phenomenon of spacecraft reentry or hypersonic vehicles and causes so called radio blackout, which interferes with radio signals. This paper gives a survey on several aspects of plasma sheath, including the characteristic of plasma sheath, experiments to deal with the blackout and numerical solutions. The numerical methods includes WKB, finite-difference time-domain method, particle-in-cell method, CFD based method and Monte Carlo method. Some discussions are also presented.

Abstract: Being inherently safe and chemically compatible with the electrolyte, lithium titanate is considered alternatives to carbonaceous anodes in Li-ion batteries. Given the commercial success of the spinel lithium titanate, carbon coated lithium titanate, particularly in nano structured forms, have been fabricated and investigated for the applications. Nano structuring leads to increased reaction areas, shortened Li+ diffusion and potentially enhanced solubility/capacity. This paper reviews structural characteristics and electrochemical reactivity, along with synthetic approaches of carbon coated nanostructures and nano-composites based on lithium titanate, recently.