Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a nanostructure for detecting viruses including an amphipathic polymer, and a diagnostic platform using the same, wherein the nanostructure is capable of specifically detecting viruses through silica-based nanoparticles with excellent stability and high dispersion and a biocompatible amphipathic polymer, such that it is possible to develop a diagnostic platform with high sensitivity through binding and agglomeration of the nanostructure and viruses and enable rapid and accurate diagnosis of a target virus.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode, the second electrode and the separator being wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer peripheral surface. The first electrode and the second electrode include a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region along a winding direction, respectively, and an active material layer coating is absent in the first uncoated region and the second uncoated region. The battery further includes a housing receiving the electrode assembly through an opening formed at a bottom, a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed within the housing, a cap covering the opening, a spacer interposed between the cap and the electrode assembly to fix the electrode assembly and seal the housing, and a terminal electrically connected to the second uncoated region.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the same. In the electrode assembly, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound based on a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumference. The first electrode includes a first active material portion coated with an active material layer and a first uncoated portion not coated with an active material layer along a winding direction. At least a part of the first uncoated portion is defined as an electrode tab by itself. The first uncoated portion includes a first portion adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly, a second portion adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly, and a third portion interposed between the first portion and the second portion. The first portion or the second portion has a smaller height than the third portion in the winding axis direction.

Abstract: Provided are an electrode assembly, a battery, and a battery pack and vehicle including the same. An electrode assembly, in which a first electrode, a second electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween are wound about an axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes, at a long side end portion, an uncoated portion exposed beyond the separator in a direction of the axis. At least a part of the uncoated portion is bent in a radial direction of the electrode assembly to define a bent surface region having overlapping layers of the uncoated portion. The bent surface region includes a welding target region having a number of the overlapping layers of the uncoated portion, and the welding target region extends along a radial direction of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first uncoated region and a second uncoated region; a battery housing accommodating the electrode assembly and electrically connected to the second uncoated region; a cap to cover an open portion on bottom of the battery housing; a first electrode terminal passing through a partially closed portion of the battery housing and being electrically isolated from the battery housing; and a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and connected to the first electrode terminal.

Abstract: A foil tab forming apparatus forms at least one foil tab of a positive electrode foil tab and a negative electrode foil tab respectively provided at a top portion and a bottom portion of an electrode assembly. The foil tab forming apparatus includes a pre-forming jig configured to bend the foil tab by pressing the foil tab, while moving in a direction from an outer circumferential portion of the electrode assembly to a winding center portion of the electrode assembly and a forming jig configured to press the foil tab that has been primarily bent by the pre-forming jig, by moving along a direction parallel to a winding axis of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A battery includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode wound around a winding axis to define a core and an outer circumferential surface, the first electrode including a first uncoated region in which an active material layer is not coated along a winding direction; a housing accommodating the electrode assembly through an open portion at a lower end thereof; a first current collector coupled to the first uncoated region and disposed in the housing; a cap to cover the open portion; and a spacer between the first current collector and the cap and having a height corresponding to a distance between the first current collector and the cap.

Abstract: An electrode assembly, a battery, a battery pack and a vehicle including the same are provided. In the electrode assembly, the uncoated portion of an electrode includes a segment region divided into a plurality of segments, and the segment region includes a plurality of segment groups separated by a group separation pitch along a winding direction. One end of the electrode assembly includes a plurality of segment alignments. In winding turns corresponding to the plurality of segment alignments, group separation pitches of segment groups disposed in a same winding turn are substantially identical, and separation pitches of the segment groups is greater in a winding turn of a region adjacent to the outer circumference of the electrode assembly than in a winding turn of a region adjacent to the core of the electrode assembly.

Abstract: A cylindrical secondary battery, a battery pack, and a vehicle are provided. The cylindrical secondary battery includes an electrode assembly having a first electrode tab at a first end of the electrode assembly a battery can configured to accommodate the electrode assembly through an opening portion formed at one side of the battery can, a current collecting plate including three or more tab coupling portions electrically connected to the first electrode tab, and a can coupling portion extending from ends of the tab coupling portions toward the opening portion of the battery can and having a continuous outer peripheral surface electrically connected to an inner surface of the battery can, and a top cap configured to cover the opening portion of the battery can.

Abstract: A photoacid generator represented by Formula 1 or Formula 2: wherein R1, R2, and R3 are each independently a C1-C10 alkyl group, X is a C3-C20 alicyclic hydrocarbon group forming a ring with S+, and at least one CH2 group in the alicyclic hydrocarbon group may be replaced with at least one selected from the group consisting of S, O, NH, a carbonyl group, and R5—S+A?, where R5 is a C1-C10 alkyl group, and A? is a counter-ion.

Abstract: A photoacid generator represented by Formula 1 or Formula 2: wherein R1, R2, and R3 are each independently a C1-C10 alkyl group, X is a C3-C20 alicyclic hydrocarbon group forming a ring with S+, and at least one CH2 group in the alicyclic hydrocarbon group may be replaced with at least one selected from the group consisting of S, O, NH, a carbonyl group, and R5—S+A?, where R5 is a C1-C10 alkyl group, and A? is a counter-ion.

Abstract: In an inverter controller for a brushless DC motor, when the upper and lower pole power switching devices are sequentially operated, a commutating signal is applied so that a commutated power switching device is always turned on, and a pulse width modulated commutating signal is applied to the non-commutated power switching. device, and thereby a driving efficiency of the brushless DC motor can be effectively enhanced by reducing a delay time of a free-wheeling current at the turn off section of the pulse width modulated commutating signal and further, a thermal balance of the power switching devices can be realized by the uniform PWM control of the power switching devices connected to the upper and lower poles to gain an effect of uniformly distributing a thermal stress applied to a specific power switching device.

Abstract: A rock fragmentation system using Gold Schmidt method and process for blasting using the machine are provided, wherein the blasting machine has a capacitor bank, a switch, a high voltage electric power supply, a first charge dump and a second charge dump, and an electrode assembly which is connected to capacitor bank and switch with a coxial cable and electrodes at a lower end of the electrode assembly, wherein an aluminum and metal oxide composition of a predetermined mixture ratio is inserted between electrodes in a lower end of the electrode assembly for generating an instant reaction energy by discharging the electric energy.