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Also, in 2012, Suzuki et al. used KMC simulations to evaluate the sintering and voltage drops in high-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells (HT-PEMFCs). A three-dimensional KMC model, based on DFT calculations, was compared with experimental results at 150 °C, 170 °C, and 190 °C (at nonhumid conditions). The KMC-simulated agglomeration of electrocatalysts over time was quantitatively confirmed by experimental transmission electron microscopy (TEM). 

Historically, EELS is one of the oldest spectroscopic techniques based ancillary to the transmission electron microscope. In the early 1940s the principle of atomic level excitation for light element detection capability was demonstrated by using EELS to measure C, N, and O. Unfortunately, at that time the instruments were limited by detection capabilities (film) and extremely poor vacuum levels, which caused severe contamination of the specimens. Twenty-five years later the experimental technique was revived with the advent of modern instrumentation. The basis for quantification and its development as an analytical tool followed in the mid 1970s. Recent reviews can be found in the works by Joy, Maher and Silcox " Colliex and the excellent books by Raether and Egerton. ... 

The field of carbon nanotube research was launched in 1991 by the initial experimental observation of carbon nanotubes by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) [151], and the subsequent report of conditions for the synthesis of large quantities of nanotubes [152,153]. Though early work was done on... 

Lastly, gold supported on Mg(OH)2 is very active for CO oxidation even at 200 K [30]. However, it suddenly died after 4 months. Transmission electron microscopy could not clarify the reason because no appreciable change in particle diameter was observed. X-ray scattering due to gold clusters was measured experimentally. The... 

With such a definition, it was found that vfc at 445 K did not change within experimental error as the average Pd particle size, determined by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), was varied between 1.5 and 8.0 nm (Figure 1). Besides, this value of v was also the same as that reported for the ill face of a single crystal of Pd (2), the latter value being itself very much the same on other planes of Pd or on a polycrystalline wire (3). 

The volume fraction of each phase was taken from the fractional area in the transmission electron micrographs. Combined with the values shown in Table 1, the compositions within each phase were calculated and are shown in Table 2. Overall, the results suggest variably 0-20% actual molecular mixing. Noting the probable errors in estimating the experimental Tg s, the and W2 values are probably correct to within +0.05. Thus mixing plays an important role in interpenetration and influences the reinforcement within each phase. 

It is difficult to evaluate the shape of such dendritic particles experimentally. However, some insight can be gained by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and transmission electron microscopy experiments (TEM). AFM experiments can give information about the overall size of the dendrimers, as shown by De Schryver [43], by spincoating very dilute solutions of dendrimers like 30 on mica, then visualizing single dendrimers. Their height measured in this manner corresponds very well to the diameters calculated by molecular mechanics simulations. First results from TEM measurements also confirm the expected dimensions [44]. Unfortunately, due to resolution limits, up to now direct visual information could not be obtained about the shape of the dendrimers. 

The experimental techniques described above of charge—discharge and impedance are nondestructive. Tear-down analysis or disassembly of spent cells and an examination of the various components using experimental techniques such as Raman microscopy, atomic force microscopy, NMR spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, XAS, and the like can be carried out on materials-spent battery electrodes to better understand the phenomena that lead to degradation during use. These techniques provide diagnostic techniques that identify materials properties and materials interactions that limit lifetime, performance, and thermal stabiity. The accelerated rate calorimeter finds use in identifying safety-related situations that lead to thermal runaway and destruction of the battery. 

Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and birefringence studies of strained and/ or fractured epoxies have revealed more direct experimental evidence that molecular flow can occur in these glasses. Films of DGEBA-DETA ( 11 wt.- % DETA) epoxies, 1 pm thick, were strained directly in the electron microscope and the deformation processes were observed in bright-field TEM 73 110). Coarse craze fibrils yielded in-homogeneously by a process that involved the movement of indeformable 6-9 tan diameter, highly crosslinked molecular domains past one another. The material between such domains yielded and became thinner as plastic flow occurred. 

Recent relevant work has made use of transmission electron diffraction, the theory of which we discussed in Section 2.5. This technique has a very straightforward interpretation which, combined with improved experimental methods, has provided very precise results. Two papers are of particular importance in this context. Garoff et al. [137] studied monolayers of cadmium stearate. Their substrates were 2 nm layers of SiO coated on 10 nm layers of amorphous carbon on 200 mesh Ni elec-... 

The physics of the glass transition in block copolymers are essentially the same as those of homopolymers, and little experimental attention has been devoted to this aspect. Ordered phases in block copolymer melts can be vitrified by cooling below the glass transition temperature of a glassy block, and indeed this is often the method for preparing samples for transmission electron... 

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