Título : Desalination Using the Capacitive Deionization Technology with Graphite/AC Electrodes: Effect of the Flow Rate and Electrode Thickness

Autor : Martinez, Jhonatan; Colán, Martín; Catillón, Ronald; Huamán, Jesús; Paria, Robert; Sánchez, Luis; Rodríguez, Juan M.

Resumen : Capacitive deionization (CDI) is an emerging water desalination technology whose principle lies in ion electrosorption at the surface of a pair of electrically charged electrodes. The aim of this study was to obtain the best performance of a CDI cell made of activate...

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Título : Xanthate-modified alginates for the removal of Pb(II) and Ni(II) from aqueous solutions: A brief analysis of alginate xanthation

Autor : Córdova, Bryan M.; Infantas, Gian C.; Mayta, Sergio; Huamani Palomino, Ronny G.; Kock, Flavio Vinicius C.; Montes de Oca, Juan; Valderrama, A.C.

Resumen : Mining is the most common activity that introduces heavy metal ions into aquatic ecosystems, especially in low income-developing nations where governments are implementing stricter regulations for industrial wastewater. In this context, this work is focused on the application of xa...

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Título : Length-flexible strategies for efficient SERS performance in gold-nanorod-gapped nanoantennas

Autor : Flores Correa, Sergio F.; León Hilario, L. M.; Ramos Pérez, I. A.; Reynoso, Andres A.

Resumen : Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) using gold-nanorod-dimer nanoantennas has shown great potential in various applications. This reflects in their large values of the customary figure of merit of SERS: the enhancement factor (EF), which is essentially the fourth power of th...

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Título : Effect of the excitation setup in the improved enhancement factor of covered-gold-nanorod-dimer antennas

Autor : Ramos, Iván A.; León Hilario, L. M.; Pedano, María L.; Reynoso, Andrés A.

Resumen : Devices possessing the ability to sense both electrically and optically molecular targets are of fundamental and technological interest. Towards this end, it has been shown that covering the ends of gapped gold-nanorod-dimer nanoantennas can improve the enhancement factor (EF) that...

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Título : Geometry-induced enhancement factor improvement in covered-gold-nanorod-dimer antennas

Autor : Ramos, Iván A.; León Hilario, L. M.; Pedano, María L.; Reynoso, Andres A.

Resumen : Illuminated gapped-gold-nanorod dimers hold surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) that can be engineered, by an appropriate choice of geometrical parameters, to enhance the electromagnetic field at the gap, allowing applications in molecular detection via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).&#...

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Título : On the relevance of the metadata used in the semantic segmentation of indoor image spaces

Autor : Vasquez Espinoza, Luis; Castillo Cara, Manuel; Orozco Barbosa, Luis

Resumen : The study of artificial learning processes in the area of computer vision context has mainly focused on achieving a fixed output target rather than on identifying the underlying processes as a means to develop solutions capable of performing as good as or better ...

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Título : High rate and long-term cycling of silicon anodes with phosphonium-based ionic liquids as electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries

Autor : Sánchez Ramírez, Nedher; Monje, Ivonne E.; Bélanger, Daniel; Camargo, Pedro H.C.; Torresi, Roberto M.

Resumen : This paper describes the effects of the length of the phosphonium alkyl chain in FSI-based ionic liquids (ILs) used as an electrolyte solvent with Si electrodes in a Li/Si half-cell. The electrochemical performance of Si nanoparticles at a high rate in the synth...

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Título : Influence of the Molar Ratio of Co and V in Bimetallic Oxides on Their Pseudocapacitive Properties

Autor : Quispe Garrido, Lady V.; Monje, Ivonne E.; López, Elvis O.; Gonçalves, Josué M.; Martins, Cleonice S.; Planes, Gabriel Ángel; Ruiz Montoya, José G.; Baena-Mo...

Resumen : Bimetallic oxides have significant attraction as supercapacitor electrode materials due to their highly reversible redox processes, which are commonly associated with their surface chemistry and morphological features. Here, we report the synthesis, characterization, and electrochemical evaluation...

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Título : An experimental study of fog and cloud computing in CEP-based Real-Time IoT applications

Autor : Mondragón Ruiz, Giovanny; Tenorio Trigoso, Alonso; Castillo Cara, Manuel; Caminero, Carmen; Carrión, Carmen

Resumen : Internet of Things (IoT) has posed new requirements to the underlying processing architecture, specially for real-time applications, such as event-detection services. Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines provide a powerful tool to implement these services. Fog computing has raised as&...

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