Kinetically enhanced conductivity

After approximately 10 years of development, PBI chemistries and the concomitant manufacturing processes have evolved to produce commercially available MEAs. PBI MEAs can operate rehably without complex water humidification hardware and are able to run at elevated temperatures of 120-180 C due to the physical and chemical robustness of PBI membranes. These higher temperatures improve the electrode kinetics and conductivity of the MEAs, simplify the water and thermal management of the systems, and significantly increase their tolerance to fuel impurities. Membranes cast by a newly developed PPA Process possessed excellent mechanical properties, higher PA/PBI ratios, and enhanced proton conductivities as compared to previous methods of membrane preparation. 

Dynamic kinetic resolution of a-alkyl-P-keto ester was conducted successfully using biocatalysts. For example, baker s yeast gave selectively syn(2R, 3S)-product [29a] and the selectivity was enhanced by using selective inhibitor [29b] or heat treatment of the yeast [29c]. Organic solvent was used for stereochemical control of G. candidum [29d]. Plant cell cultures were used for reduction of 2-methyl-3-oxobu-tanoate and afforded antialcohol with Marchantia [29e,f] and syn-isomer with Glycine max [29f]. 

Further complicating factors in the choice of an enhancer include degradation of HRP by enhancer radicals [23], pH effects [24] on reduction and oxidation potentials for enhancer and acridan ester, inactivation of enhancer radicals because of dimerization or other reactions, etc. All these, and other, effects of the structures (and because of the kinetics also the concentrations) of enhancer and acridan ester may cause erratic results when optimization studies are conducted. When... 

A Varian Cary 100 model UWis spectrophotometer was used for optical absorbance measurements. The absorbance measrrrements were conducted in situ for the study of the kinetics of adsorption process. In all experiments, the size and mass of ACC was kept as constant as possible (about 18.0 0.1 mg). Weighed ACC pieces were pre-wetted by leaving in water for 24 h before use. The idea of using pre-wetted ACC originates from previons findings that pre-wetting enhances the adsorption process [9, 11],... 

This expression is the general Wagner factor which includes the influence of all the motion of the other species on the motion of species i by the effect of the internal electric fields. W may be larger than 1 which indicates an enhancement of the motion by the simultaneous motions of other species, or W may be smaller than 1 which means that the species are slowed down because of the immobility of other species which are therefore unable to compensate for the electrical charges. The first situation is desirable for electrodes whereas the second one is required for electrolytes in which mobile species should not move except when electrons are provided through the external circuit. Since the transference numbers in Eqn (8.27) include the partial and total conductivities (tj = OjlYjk or the products of the diffusivities (or mobilities) and the concentrations, Eqn (8.27) shows that W depends both on kinetic... 

DSC tests show a substantial reduction of the hydrogen desorption onset (red circles) (T J and peak (T ) temperatures due to the catalytic effects of n-Ni as compared to the hydrogen desorption from pure MgH also milled for 15 min. (Fig. 2.57). It is interesting to note that there is no measurable difference between spherical (Fig. 2.57a) and fdamentary (Fig. 2.57b) n-Ni, although there seems to be some effect of SSA. We also conducted desorption tests in a Sieverts apparatus for each SSA and obtained kinetic curves (Fig. 2.58), from which the rate constant, k, in the JMAK equation was calculated. The enhancement of desorption rate by n-Ni is clearly seen. At the temperature of 275°C, which is close to the equilibrium at atmospheric pressure (0.1 MPa), all samples desorb from 4 to 5.5 wt.% within 2,000 s. 

The beneficial effect of the hydrophobicity of [BMIM]PFg was shown to extend to other enzymes a remarkably enhanced enantioselectivity was observed for lipases AK and Pseudomonas fluorescens for the kinetic resolution of racemic P-chiral hydroxymethanephosphinates (Scheme 31) (278). The ee values of the recovered alcohols and the acetates were about 80% when the enzymatic reactions were conducted in the hydrophobic [BMIMJPFg. In contrast, there was little enantioselectivity (<5%) observed with the enzymes in hydrophilic [BMIM]BF4. The lack of stereoselectivity in [BMIM]BF4 was attributed to the high miscibility of [BMIM]BF4 with water. The relatively hydrophilic ionic liquid is capable of stripping off the essential water from the enzyme surface, leading to insufficient hydration of the enzyme and a consequently strong influence on its performance (279). 

Numerous comparative studies on the ROP of CL in organic solvents have been conducted to enhance the mechanistic and kinetic understanding of lipase-catalyzed ROP. Investigated reaction parameters are, for example, the enzyme origin [62, 97-... 

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