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A novel CaCO3-embedded carbon cathode for highly energy-efficient Li–O2 batteries
Rechargeable Li‒O2 batteries have attracted considerable attention owing to their high specific energy density compared to those of other lithium secondary batteries. However, the high charging overpotential rema...
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An efficient electrocatalyst of NiO supported on carbon paper for nonaqueous Li–O2 batteries
A Li–O2 battery has been considered as one of the most promising energy storage systems owing to their ultrahigh theoretical energy densities. However, low energy efficiency (high polarization) during discharge/c...
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An iterative sinogram gap-filling method with object- and scanner-dedicated discrete cosine transform (DCT)-domain filters for high resolution PET scanners
We aimed to develop a gap-filling algorithm, in particular the filter mask design method of the algorithm, which optimizes the filter to the imaging object by an adaptive and iterative process, rather than by ...
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Development of an ultra-HD HEVC encoder using SIMD implementation and fast encoding schemes for smart surveillance system
High efficiency video coding (HEVC) is the newest video coding standard that can support powerful video compression performance with increased picture resolution for ultrahigh definition (UHD). Compared to the...
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Erratum: Amorphous iron phosphate: potential host for various charge carrier ions
Correction to: NPG Asia Materials (2014) 6, e138; doi:10.1038/am.2014.98; published online 17 October 2014 After the online publication of this article, the authors noticed an error in the Acknowledgements sec...
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Open AccessAmorphous iron phosphate: potential host for various charge carrier ions
In response to the ever-increasing global demand for viable energy-storage systems, sodium and potassium batteries appear to be promising alternatives to lithium ion batteries because of the abundance, low cos...
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Open AccessPyro-synthesis of a high rate nano-Li3V2(PO4)3/C cathode with mixed morphology for advanced Li-ion batteries
A monoclinic Li3V2(PO4)3/C (LVP/C) cathode for lithium battery applications was synthesized by a polyol-assisted pyro-synthesis. The polyol in the present synthesis acts not only as a solvent, reducing agent and ...
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Probabilistic voxel map** using an adaptive confidence measure of stereo matching
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Moving Region Segmentation Using Sparse Motion Cue from a Moving Camera
This paper presents a method for pixel-wise segmentation of moving regions using sparse motion cues on an image from a freely moving camera. The main idea is to utilize residual motion, i.e., motion relative t...
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Open AccessPyro-Synthesis of Functional Nanocrystals
Despite nanomaterials with unique properties playing a vital role in scientific and technological advancements of various fields including chemical and electrochemical applications, the scope for exploration o...
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Open AccessSynthesis and characterization of integrated layered nanocomposites for lithium ion batteries
The series of Li[Ni x M x Li1/3-xMn2/3-x]O2 cathodes, where M is cobalt or chromium with a wide compositional range x from 0 to 0.33, were prepa...
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SVC bitstream adaptation in MPEG-21 multimedia framework
Scalable video coding (SVC) is the most promising video format for applications of collaborative communication. MPEG-21 standard has newly emerged to enable the interoperability of multimedia delivery in heter...
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A Metadata Model for Event Notification on Interactive Broadcasting Service
In this paper, we design the metadata model for Event notification that can be utilized for various commercial purposes on interactive broadcasting environment, and implement the testbed system based on the me...
