Normal titanium oxycarbide exhibits an excellent electrical conductivity and a high carrier concentration of approximately 10^(21) cm^(-3);however,the low Seebeck coefficient limits the thermoelectric application.In t...Normal titanium oxycarbide exhibits an excellent electrical conductivity and a high carrier concentration of approximately 10^(21) cm^(-3);however,the low Seebeck coefficient limits the thermoelectric application.In this study,first-principle calculations demonstrate that the metal vacancy of titanium oxycarbide weakens the density of state passing through the valence band at the Fermi level,impairing the carrier concentration and enhancing carrier mobility.Thermodynamic analysis justifies the formation of titanium oxycarbide with metal vacancy through solid-state reaction.Transmission electron microscopic images demonstrate the segregation of metal vacancy based on the observation of the defect-rich and single-crystal face-centered cubic regions.Metal vacancy triggers the formation of vacancy-rich and single-crystal face-centered cubic regions.The aggregation of metal vacancy leads to the formation of the vacancy-rich region and other regions with a semi-coherent interface,suppressing the carrier concentration from 1.71×10^(21) to 4.5×10^(20) cm^(-3) and resulting in the Seebeck coefficient from -11μV/K of TiC_(0.5)O_(0.5) to -64μV/K at 1073 K.Meanwhile,vacancies accelerate electron migration from 1.65 to 4.22 cm^(-2)·V^(-1)·s^(-1),maintaining high conductivity.The figure of merit(ZT)increases more than five orders of magnitude via the introduction of metal vacancy,with the maximum figure of 2.11×10^(-2) at 1073 K.These results indicate the potential thermoelectric application of metal-oxycarbide materials through vacancy engineering.展开更多
Implantation of the left subclavian artery(LSA)stent graft used in fenestration technique of the thoracic endovascular aortic repair(TEVAR)may interfere with the aortic helical blood flow that is believed to have imp...Implantation of the left subclavian artery(LSA)stent graft used in fenestration technique of the thoracic endovascular aortic repair(TEVAR)may interfere with the aortic helical blood flow that is believed to have important protective functions against atherogenesis.The present study investigated four different LSA stent graft implantation schemes for their resulted blood flow patterns in the thoracic aortic with hemodynamic computational simulation methods:the flush branch(FB),the protruding branch(PB),the straight cuff branch(SCB)and the cured cuff branch(CCB).The results showed that the PB scheme could slightly enhance helicity of the swirling flow in the aorta,but the other three schemes had less effect on blood flow helicity.The PB scheme produced lowTAWSS,high-OSI and high-RRT around the LSA root,and the FB scheme had similar TAWSS,OSI and RRT in both value and distribution to those in the aorta without LSA stent graft implantation.The SCB and CCB schemes led to less area of high-OSI and high-RRT values along the walls of the LSA branch arteries.The results also showed that the PB scheme would significantly reduce blood supply to the LSA,on the contrary,the CCB scheme enhanced LSA blood supply and less effect on the total blood supply to the three branches of the thoracic aorta.In summary,all of the four schemes have no significant effect on the aortic swirling flow,however,in the terms of TAWSS,OSI,RRT and blood supply to the LSA,the CCB model might be the best option with less area of low-WSS,high-OSI,high-RRT and well blood supply in the LSA.展开更多
基金financially supported by the National Science Foundation of China for Distinguished Young Scholars(No.51725401)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.FRF-TP-18-003C2)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2018M641193)。
文摘Normal titanium oxycarbide exhibits an excellent electrical conductivity and a high carrier concentration of approximately 10^(21) cm^(-3);however,the low Seebeck coefficient limits the thermoelectric application.In this study,first-principle calculations demonstrate that the metal vacancy of titanium oxycarbide weakens the density of state passing through the valence band at the Fermi level,impairing the carrier concentration and enhancing carrier mobility.Thermodynamic analysis justifies the formation of titanium oxycarbide with metal vacancy through solid-state reaction.Transmission electron microscopic images demonstrate the segregation of metal vacancy based on the observation of the defect-rich and single-crystal face-centered cubic regions.Metal vacancy triggers the formation of vacancy-rich and single-crystal face-centered cubic regions.The aggregation of metal vacancy leads to the formation of the vacancy-rich region and other regions with a semi-coherent interface,suppressing the carrier concentration from 1.71×10^(21) to 4.5×10^(20) cm^(-3) and resulting in the Seebeck coefficient from -11μV/K of TiC_(0.5)O_(0.5) to -64μV/K at 1073 K.Meanwhile,vacancies accelerate electron migration from 1.65 to 4.22 cm^(-2)·V^(-1)·s^(-1),maintaining high conductivity.The figure of merit(ZT)increases more than five orders of magnitude via the introduction of metal vacancy,with the maximum figure of 2.11×10^(-2) at 1073 K.These results indicate the potential thermoelectric application of metal-oxycarbide materials through vacancy engineering.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51774145,51872317 and 21835007)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M661644)China Scholarship Council (CSC) for financial support。
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant no.32160229)Youth Nature Science Foundation Program of Jiangxi Province(20202BABL214018)Technology Research Project of Jiangxi Education Department(GJJ190352).
文摘Implantation of the left subclavian artery(LSA)stent graft used in fenestration technique of the thoracic endovascular aortic repair(TEVAR)may interfere with the aortic helical blood flow that is believed to have important protective functions against atherogenesis.The present study investigated four different LSA stent graft implantation schemes for their resulted blood flow patterns in the thoracic aortic with hemodynamic computational simulation methods:the flush branch(FB),the protruding branch(PB),the straight cuff branch(SCB)and the cured cuff branch(CCB).The results showed that the PB scheme could slightly enhance helicity of the swirling flow in the aorta,but the other three schemes had less effect on blood flow helicity.The PB scheme produced lowTAWSS,high-OSI and high-RRT around the LSA root,and the FB scheme had similar TAWSS,OSI and RRT in both value and distribution to those in the aorta without LSA stent graft implantation.The SCB and CCB schemes led to less area of high-OSI and high-RRT values along the walls of the LSA branch arteries.The results also showed that the PB scheme would significantly reduce blood supply to the LSA,on the contrary,the CCB scheme enhanced LSA blood supply and less effect on the total blood supply to the three branches of the thoracic aorta.In summary,all of the four schemes have no significant effect on the aortic swirling flow,however,in the terms of TAWSS,OSI,RRT and blood supply to the LSA,the CCB model might be the best option with less area of low-WSS,high-OSI,high-RRT and well blood supply in the LSA.
