Energy & Sustainability – Page 40

Ionic Liquid Flow Battery Materials and Prototyping

Anderson T.M., Pratt III H.D., Sandia National Laboratories, US

SNL has developed a series of ionic-liquid electrolytes with accompanying non-aqueous compatible membranes and flow cell designs for improved energy density flow batteries targeted to support increasing demands for stationary energy storage. The new electrolytes [...]

High energy density and high temperature multilayered polymer film capacitors

Langhe D., Ponting M., PolymerPlus LLC, US

Current state-of-the-art polymer film capacitors have a limited energy density of 2.4 J/cc for pulsed power and energy storage applications, and are based on twenty year old technology and materials. Improving the energy density limit [...]

Inclusion of Electromagnetic Stress to explain Lithiated Silicon Nanowires

Boone D., Nanoscience Research Institute, US

Abstract: This study considers the electromagnetic stresses and simulates the lithium insertion into a silicon nanowire. The resulting model uses a multi-physics approach to explain the two detrimental effects that could result during the lithiated [...]

Energy Storage

A Novel Application Technique for Polymer Nanofibers in the Construction Industry

Araya A.L., Vargas R.F., Cuevas R., Chaves J.S., Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica, CR

During 2008 about 3 billion tons of concrete were produced all over the world, making it the most important industrial product produced in the history of mankind. Therefore, any technological improvement in this product will [...]

Mechanically Durable Superhydrophobic Nanocomposites from Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS)

Milionis A., Yeong Y.H., Loth E., Bayer I.S., University of Virginia, US

We report on the development of nanocomposites based on a combination of ABS with hydrophobically modified fumed silica (HMFS). By tuning the ratio between the two materials we are again able to obtain static water [...]

3D Printered and Plasma Treated Superhydrophobic Mesh Filters for Oil-water Separation

Lee H.J., Lee S., Jo W., Lee H.J., Lee S., Moon M.-W., Korea Institute of Science and Technology, KR

We develop the 3D printed mesh filters with plasma treatment using a radio-frequency plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (rf-PECVD) to control their surface wettability. The nano-sclae hairy structures on the meshes are created by plasma etching [...]

Advanced Coating for Energy Applications

Veedu V., Pollock J., Oceanit, US

Quest for oil and gas has increased in the past few decades and the industry is in a constant change of flux to identify new oil reserves and extraction methods to recover oil and natural [...]

Immobilization of AgZnO photocatalyst in Poly(acrylic acid) matrix and their photocatalytic activity evaluation

Jasso-Salcedo A.B., Meimaroglou D., Camargo M., Hoppe S., Pla F., Escobar-Barrios V.A., IPICYT, MX

The Ag modified Zinc oxide (AgZnO) is a catalyst with increased photocatalytic activity used for degradation of dyes and several organic molecules, in aqueous solution, in contrast to pure ZnO. Nevertheless, its application at pilot [...]

Sustainable and high-performable nano-structured biopackaging materials

Božič M., Majerič M., Kokol V., University of Maribor, SI

In the contribution, there will be presented few strategies that we have studied recently for producing of highly-performed rigid or flexible biopackaging materials, being fabricated as mono- or even multi-layers coating films from renewable biopolymers [...]