Papers:
3-Dimensional Carbon Nanotube-Graphene Structure for Flexible Li-ion Battery
Flexible electronics have attracted great attention for use in next-generation portable devices and their major applications include roll-up displays, wearable devices, active radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, integrated circuit smart cards and implantable medical devices. [...]
Hydrogen Recharge Dynamics and Vessel Design for Porous Silicon Storage Media
Porous silicon as a storage media can store up to 7.1% hydrogen by weight [1,3]. The round-trip energy difference is 1.2 kJ/mol, but the as-synthesized energy barrier requires 410 C for complete thermal discharge [2]. [...]
Hydrogen storage by reduced graphene oxide and graphene-like nanosheets decorated with Fe nanoclusters
Here, we present the high pressure hydrogen sorption isotherm up to 50 bar of graphene oxide (GO) reduced by thermal reduction (TR-GO), chemical reduction (CR-GO) and graphene like nanosheets decorated with Fe nanoclusters (Fe-GS). GO [...]
Atomic Layer Deposition Innovations in Li-Ion Battery Technology
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) can enhance the stability and utility of lithium ion batteries. Nanothick coatings on electrodes, electrode powders and even separator materials can significantly improve the performance of batteries, especially at high temperatures [...]
Market Evaluation for Energy Storage in the United States
A first-of-its-kind study commissioned by the Copper Development Association Inc. (CDA) evaluate the current and future market for grid energy storage in the U.S. and the associated copper demand in storage applications over the next [...]
Integration of Flow Batteries into Electric Vehicles: Feasibility and the Future
Driving range, safety and cost remain the biggest hurdles in the way of mass electric vehicle adoption. To compete with established combustion-engine vehicles, EVs need to have a highly flexible operating capability with minimum downtime. [...]
Composite Li-Ion Anodes from Recycled Silicon
Silicon byproducts from sources such as kerf are difficult to use directly as lithium-ion batteries since key parameters such as silicon particle size, surface oxides, and impurities, do not fulfill the requirements for silicon anode [...]
Rechargeable Lithium-ion Batteries For Wireless Smart Designs
Wireless communication is today considered as a disruptive technology. Indeed, even if wired systems can easily achieve 100% of reliability, it induces high amount of wiring, which has non negligible impact on the mass and [...]
Synthesis of Carbon Supported Nano-Structured Ptni Electro-Catalysts for Fuel Cell
Vu T.H.P., Le M.L.P., Le T.N.H., Le V.T., Nguyen B.T.T., Nguyen T.G.H., Nguyen T.P.T., Tran V.M., Nguyen B.T.T., Nguyen T.G.H., Nguyen T.P.T., Le M.L.P., Le T.N.H., Le V.T., Le M.L.P., Le T.N.H., Le V.T., Nguyen B.T.T., Nguyen T.G.H., Nguyen T.P.T., Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City, VN
Platinum is the most effective catalyst for electrode reactions in fuel cells. However, challenges for this catalyst are its scarcity and high cost, as well as the poisoning by the intermediates of the fuel oxidation, [...]
Seawater Flow Battery as Technology Platform
Grid-level storage of renewable energy using electrolytes from seawater is a platform technology with multiple byproducts and use-case scenarios. The core application is to provide load-leveling for intermittent sources such as wind and solar. Membranes [...]
Assessing damage to graphite electrodes in bromine redox flow battery systems
Bistrikaa A.A., Brekkenb T.K.A., von Jouanneb A., Lernerc M.M., Yokochia A.F.T., NRGindependence, Oregon State University, US
A crucial metric in harvesting renewable and intermittent power resources is widely understood to be the ability to, and cost effectiveness of, storing energy. Large chemical systems, such as Redox Flow Batteries (RFBs), are a [...]
Electrochemical Characterization of Naxmo2 as Cathode Materials in Sodium Batteries
NaxMO2 with M = Mn and Co as cathode materials in sodium-ion batteries was synthesized by solid-state reaction at 600-850oC. The manganese precursors was MnO2 obtained from electrolysis of MnSO4, MnCO3 and Mn(OAc)2 solutions. The [...]
Single-Layer Ceramic Capacitors with low dielectric loss
ANU researchers have developed a new giant dielectric constant material with good thermal stability and low dielectric loss. This novel material has application in electrical energy storage for electric vehicles, renewable energy and power grids, [...]
Architecturing Carbon Nanotube-based Flexible Solid State Supercapacitor
Adu K, Ma D., Radall C., Rajagopalan R., Armstrong P., Stigers S., The Pennsylvania State University, US
We report a novel post synthesis self-assembly technique that transforms the trillion of carbon nanotubes into a robust, flexible and binder-free membrane and demonstrate its application in designing flexible bipolar solid state supercapacitor with high [...]
Synthesis and characterization of (polypyrrole/carbon) nanotubes/metal oxide composites for application as supercapacitors
The development of eco-friendly technologies such as hybrid vehicles requires more efficient high power energy storage materials, viz. supercapacitors. As reported in our previous work, the association of polypyrrole and carbon derivatives (modified graphene oxide [...]
MWCNTs/metal oxide nanocomposite as potential material for supercapacitors application in acidic and neutral media
Carbon based supercapacitor electrodes have been attractive due to their high surface area and porous nature. Studies have shown that the carbon nanotube-metal oxide (CNT-MO) nanocomposite modified electrodes exhibited huge capacitive current in some electrolytes. [...]
Nanostructured Acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) Memristor/Memcapacitor Mimicks Brachyhypopomus Electric Fish’s Signal-Cloaking Behavior
The Brachyhypopomus Electric (BHE) fish is known for its signal-cloaking behavior that allows it to avoid predators by shifting its electroreceptive pulses from low frequency to less detectable high-frequency through a phase-delay “head-tail” Electric Organ [...]
A Study on the System Configuration for the Flywheel Energy Storage Device to be Applied to the Railway System
A system configuration to be applied to the railway system using flywheel energy storage system to store regenerative energy which is produced during the braking period of the train is presented. The proposed FESS (Flywheel [...]
Metal Organo-Clays as potential adsorbents for hydrogen storage
Metal-Organo-Clays (MOC) are novel microporous matrices that can be synthesized via the in-situ formation of Cu, Fe or Pd nanoparticles in montmorillonite-supported polyol dendrimers. This is a new concept that has scarcely been tackled so [...]
Secondary Use Energy Storage
Starke M., Irimger P., Ollis B., Andrews G., Karlson P., Thabiappah S., Rosenfeld P., Massin S., Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US
This study presents the testing of a community energy storage system composed of repurposed used electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (EV/PHEV) battery packs. The expectation is that the vehicular batteries will be replaced with [...]
Modeling and Simulation of PVDF-TrFE Based MEMS Scale Cantilever Type Energy Harvesters
We present the FEM modeling and simulation of a cantilever type piezoelectric energy harvester constructed using PVDF-TrFE. PVDF-TrFE is a CMOS compatible, soft piezoelectric polymer with a moderate electromechanical coupling coefficient. It is also flexible [...]
Charge Pumping for High-force, Large-displacement MEMS
Instead of making machines smaller that work well in the macro world, we envision a new class of machines that are specifically designed to take advantage of what works well in the micro-scale world. These [...]
Journal: TechConnect Briefs
Volume: Technical Proceedings of the 2014 Clean Technology Conference and Trade Show
Published: June 15, 2014
Industry sector: Energy & Sustainability
Topic: Energy Storage
ISBN: 978-1-4822-5819-6