electrodes – TechConnect Briefs

Electroactive Polymers as Battery Electrodes

Lutkenhaus J.L., Texas A&M University, US

Plastic power, or energy storage platforms primarily consisting of polymers, offers opportunities never before available in current state-of-the-art prismatic or coin cells, such as flexible, structural, or stretchable energy storage. Electroactive polymers, a class of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A method to produce microelectronic devices on textile and paper substrates

Trindade I.G., Miguel R., Lucas J., Pereira M., Santos Silva M., Universidade da Beira Interior, PT

In this article, electrically conducting coatings of poly(3, 4 – ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) were synthetized on textile substrates by the vapor phase polymerization (VPP) method, using water as solvent. The VPP method is considerably more sustainable [...]

Performance Comparison of Immunosensors Modified with Polymers, Nanoparticles and Antibody

Leung S.W., Lai J.C.K., Assan D., Idaho State University, US

Our research group is in the quest of developing a biosensor platform that is fast in response time, versatile that can be used to detect a variety of chemicals species and metabolites, and ultra-sensitive that [...]

Multifunctional Electrodes Based on MWNTs Sheets and Yarns

Carretero-González J., dela Cruz M.E., Fang S., Ferraris J.P., Baughman R.H., The University of Texas at Dallas, US

Solid-state fabricated carbon MWNTs sheets and yarns exhibit very high electrochemically accessible surface area, which combine with their high electronic conductivity and useful mechanical properties to make these materials attractive candidates for supercapacitor and artificial [...]

BioMEMS for Mitochondriaa Medicine

Padmaraj D., Zagozdzon-Wosik W., Xie Lei-Ming, Pijanowka D., Miller J.H., Grabiec P., Wosik J., Zagozdzon-Wosik W., University of Houston, US

We designed and fabricated BioMEMS for applications in subcelullar level studies, more specifically for monitoring complementary parameters important in mitochondria medicine.BioMEMS were first simulated using COMSOL 3.4 and then fabricated as an SU-8 based microfluidic [...]

An Analytical Model for Multi-layer and Multi-electrode Piezoelectric Ceramic Actuators

Wang B-L., Mai Y-W., The University of Sydney, AU

The use of piezoelectric ceramics in multilayer actuator is increasing. This paper studies electroelastic field concentrations ahead of electrodes for multilayer piezoelectric actuators. The electrodes are vertical to and terminated near the edges of the [...]