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Perfluorinated Sulfonic Acid Lithium Conductivity Humidity Sensor, Hong-Feng Xu, Jing Liu, Li Wan May 2003

Perfluorinated Sulfonic Acid Lithium Conductivity Humidity Sensor, Hong-Feng Xu, Jing Liu, Li Wan

Journal of Electrochemistry

Treat carbon paper with 3% PTFE solution and dried in 340 ℃ for 40 minutes to enhance its intension, and level off the surface of the carbon paper with a mixture of XC_72 carbon black and PTFE solution. With those treated carbon paper as electrodes,recast Nafion thin film from 5% Nafion solution as humidity sensitive material, a solid polymer electrolyte humidity sensor was prepared on a thin PET film.Take the relative humidity data from several saturated salt solutions, the relationship between conductivity response and relative humidity was studied at different relative humidies.The results showed: when the polymer electrolyte was H+ …


Study Of Marine Biocorrosion Using Afm And Molecular Techniques, Herbert H.P.Fang, Lichong Xu, Tong Zhang May 2003

Study Of Marine Biocorrosion Using Afm And Molecular Techniques, Herbert H.P.Fang, Lichong Xu, Tong Zhang

Journal of Electrochemistry

Biofilm is ubiquitous in nature.However,corrosin caused by biofilm is still by and large overlooked.This presentation is to demonstrate the applications of several newly developed analytical techniques in chemisrty and microbiology for the study of marine biocorrosion on steel.AFM(atomic force microscopy) was applied to investigate the initial formation mechanism of biofilm and the degree of corrosion of steel in polluted seawater.DNA/RNA_related molecular techniques were used to analyze the microbial composition corrosive biofilm. Results showed that microbial corrosion began within six days, and the corroded volume in the increased as a power function of time with an index 2.83. Most of the …