Hanyang University

About: Hanyang University is a education organization based out in Seoul, South Korea. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Thin film & Population. The organization has 29387 authors who have published 58815 publications receiving 1190144 citations. The organization is also known as: Hanyang Taehakkyo.

An advanced lithium-sulfur battery

Abstract: A lithium-sulfur battery employing a high performances mesoporous hard carbon spherules-sulfur cathode and a stable, highly conducting electrolyte is reported. The results demonstrate that the battery cycles with very high capacity, i.e., of the order of 750 mAh g−1 with excellent retention during cycling. In addition, by exploiting the high conductivity of our selected electrolyte, the battery performs very well also at low temperature, i.e., delivering a capacity of 500 mAh g−1(S) at 0 °C for over 170 charge-discharge cycles. We believe that these results may substantially contribute to the progress of the lithium-sulfur battery technology.

Microencapsulation of octadecane as a phase-change material by interfacial polymerization in an emulsion system

Abstract: Microcapsules containing phase-change material for thermal adaptable fiber application were synthesized and characterized. The microcapsules of about 1 μm in diameter were prepared using an interfacial polycondensation method with toluene-2,4-diisocyanate (TDI) and diethylenetriamine (DETA) as monomers in an emulsion system. Octadecane was used as a phase-change material and NP-10 which is nonionic surfactant, was used as an emulsifier. To investigate the reaction ratio of monomers, microcapsules were synthesized with 3 g TDI and 0–4 g DETA. Polyurea microcapsules were formed not only by reaction with TDI and DETA, but also by reaction of TDI with hydrolyzed TDI at the interface. TDI was reacted with DETA in the weight ratio of 3:1. NP-10 was reacted with TDI to form urethane. The microcapsules containing octadecane showed a phase change of octadecane at 29–30 °C. The core content measured using the heat of fusion of octadecane was less than that calculated. The efficiency of octadecane encapsulation increased as the core content decreased.

Brain-Inspired Photonic Neuromorphic Devices using Photodynamic Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors and their Persistent Photoconductivity

Abstract: The combination of a neuromorphic architecture and photonic computing may open up a new era for computational systems owing to the possibility of attaining high bandwidths and the low-computation-power requirements. Here, the demonstration of photonic neuromorphic devices based on amorphous oxide semiconductors (AOSs) that mimic major synaptic functions, such as short-term memory/long-term memory, spike-timing-dependent plasticity, and neural facilitation, is reported. The synaptic functions are successfully emulated using the inherent persistent photoconductivity (PPC) characteristic of AOSs. Systematic analysis of the dynamics of photogenerated carriers for various AOSs is carried out to understand the fundamental mechanisms underlying the photoinduced carrier-generation and relaxation behaviors, and to search for a proper channel material for photonic neuromorphic devices. It is found that the activation energy for the neutralization of ionized oxygen vacancies has a significant influence on the photocarrier-generation and time-variant recovery behaviors of AOSs, affecting the PPC behavior.