scholarly journals Towards High Performance Chemical Vapour Deposition V2O5 Cathodes for Batteries Employing Aqueous Media

Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (23) ◽  
pp. 5558
Author(s):  
Dimitra Vernardou ◽  
Charalampos Drosos ◽  
Andreas Kafizas ◽  
Martyn E. Pemble ◽  
Emmanouel Koudoumas
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Electrode Materials ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Aqueous Media ◽  
Chemical Vapour ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Environmentally Safe

The need for clean and efficient energy storage has become the center of attention due to the eminent global energy crisis and growing ecological concerns. A key component in this effort is the ultra-high performance battery, which will play a major role in the energy industry. To meet the demands in portable electronic devices, electric vehicles, and large-scale energy storage systems, it is necessary to prepare advanced batteries with high safety, fast charge ratios, and discharge capabilities at a low cost. Cathode materials play a significant role in determining the performance of batteries. Among the possible electrode materials is vanadium pentoxide, which will be discussed in this review, due to its low cost and high theoretical capacity. Additionally, aqueous electrolytes, which are environmentally safe, provide an alternative approach compared to organic media for safe, cost-effective, and scalable energy storage. In this review, we will reveal the industrial potential of competitive methods to grow cathodes with excellent stability and enhanced electrochemical performance in aqueous media and lay the foundation for the large-scale production of electrode materials.

scholarly journals Silver Nanoparticles: Properties, Synthesis, Characterization, Applications and Future Trends

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil T. Galatage ◽  
Aditya S. Hebalkar ◽  
Shradhey V. Dhobale ◽  
Omkar R. Mali ◽  
Pranav S. Kumbhar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Silver Nanoparticles ◽  
Metallic Nanoparticles ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Nano Particles ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Green Technologies ◽  
Synthesis Of Nanoparticles ◽  
Vital Importance ◽  
Environmentally Safe

Nanotechnology is an expanding area of research where we use to deal with the materials in Nano-dimension. The conventional procedures for synthesizing metal nanoparticles need to sophisticated and costly instruments or high-priced chemicals. Moreover, the techniques may not be environmentally safe. Therefore “green” technologies for synthesis of nanoparticles are always preferred which is simple, convenient, eco-friendly and cost effective. Green synthesis of nanoparticle is a novel way to synthesis nanoparticles by using biological sources. It is gaining attention due to its cost effective, ecofriendly and large scale production possibilities. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are one of the most vital and fascinating nanomaterials among several metallic nanoparticles that are involved in biomedical applications. It has vital importance in nanoscience and naomedicines to treat and prevent vital disease in human beings especially in cancer treatment. In current work we discussed different methods for synthesis of AgNPs like biological, chemical and physical along with its characterization. We have also discussed vital importance of AgNPs to cure life threatnign diseases like cancer along with antidiabetic, antifungal, antiviral and antimicrobial alog with its molecular mode of action etc. Finally we conclude by discussing future prospects and possible applications of silver nano particles.

Recent progress in zinc-based redox flow batteries: a review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guixiang Wang ◽  
Haitao Zou ◽  
Xiaobo Zhu ◽  
Mei Ding ◽  
Chuankun Jia
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Electrode Materials ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Ion Selectivity ◽  
Commercial Application ◽  
Environmental Friendliness ◽  
Membrane Materials ◽  
Redox Flow Batteries ◽  
Flow Batteries

Abstract Zinc-based redox flow batteries (ZRFBs) have been considered as ones of the most promising large-scale energy storage technologies owing to their low cost, high safety, and environmental friendliness. However, their commercial application is still hindered by a few key problems. First, the hydrogen evolution and zinc dendrite formation cause poor cycling life, of which needs to ameliorated or overcome by finding suitable anolytes. Second, the stability and energy density of catholytes are unsatisfactory due to oxidation, corrosion, and low electrolyte concentration. Meanwhile, highly catalytic electrode materials remain to be explored and the ion selectivity and cost efficiency of membrane materials demands further improvement. In this review, we summarize different types of ZRFBs according to their electrolyte environments including ZRFBs using neutral, acidic, and alkaline electrolytes, then highlight the advances of key materials including electrode and membrane materials for ZRFBs, and finally discuss the challenges and perspectives for the future development of high-performance ZRFBs.

scholarly journals Review on Carbon/Polyaniline Hybrids: Design and Synthesis for Supercapacitor

Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 2263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoning Wang ◽  
Dan Wu ◽  
Xinhui Song ◽  
Wei Du ◽  
Xiangjin Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Hybrid Materials ◽  
Active Sites ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Electrode Materials ◽  
Carbon Materials ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Specific Capacity ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Combine Carbon

Polyaniline has been widely used in high-performance pseudocapacitors, due to its low cost, easy synthesis, and high theoretical specific capacitance. However, the poor mechanical properties of polyaniline restrict its further development. Compared with polyaniline, functionalized carbon materials have excellent physical and chemical properties, such as porous structures, excellent specific surface area, good conductivity, and accessibility to active sites. However, it should not be neglected that the specific capacity of carbon materials is usually unsatisfactory. There is an effective strategy to combine carbon materials with polyaniline by a hybridization approach to achieve a positive synergistic effect. After that, the energy storage performance of carbon/polyaniline hybridization material has been significantly improved, making it a promising and important electrode material for supercapacitors. To date, significant progress has been made in the synthesis of various carbon/polyaniline binary composite electrode materials. In this review, the corresponding properties and applications of polyaniline and carbon hybrid materials in the energy storage field are briefly reviewed. According to the classification of different types of functionalized carbon materials, this article focuses on the recent progress in carbon/polyaniline hybrid materials, and further analyzes their corresponding properties to provide guidance for the design, synthesis, and component optimization for high-performance supercapacitors.

Porous micro-spherical LiFePO4/CNT nanocomposite for high-performance Li-ion battery cathode material

RSC Advances ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (47) ◽  
pp. 37830-37836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Wei ◽  
Linlin Guo ◽  
Xiaoyang Qiu ◽  
Peng Qu ◽  
Maotian Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electrochemical Performance ◽  
Cathode Material ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Li Ion Battery ◽  
Excellent Performance ◽  
Large Scale Production ◽  
Li Ion

Although many routes have been developed that can efficiently improve the electrochemical performance of LiFePO4 cathodes, few of them meet the urgent industrial requirements of large-scale production, low cost and excellent performance.

Large-Scale Production of Nanographene Sheets with a Controlled Mesoporous Architecture as High-Performance Electrochemical Electrode Materials

ChemSusChem ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 1084-1090 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haitao Zhang ◽  
Xiong Zhang ◽  
Xianzhong Sun ◽  
Dacheng Zhang ◽  
He Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Electrode Materials ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Large Scale Production ◽  
Electrochemical Electrode

Nanocomposites for Electrochemical Energy Storage - An Overview

2017 ◽  
Vol 735 ◽  
pp. 189-193
Author(s):  
Priscila Tamiasso-Martinhon ◽  
Sousa Célia
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Electrode Materials ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Energy Storage And Conversion ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Energy Field ◽  
Electrochemical Double Layer ◽  
And Performance

Energy storage and conversion are major problems of our modern society. In the last decades, in order to minimize these problems, a growing research activity was dedicated to the development of new systems involved in this energy field. The fabrication of supercapacitors based on new materials, such as electrochemical double layer capacitor, can offer attractive potentialities. Indeed, these supercapacitors are able to provide a power density ten times higher than that supplied by batteries, and allow a larger number of charge and discharge cycles. The performance of supercapacitors highly depends on the properties of electrode materials. Ternary composites combining both capacitive and faradaic reactions can address the improvement necessary for relatively cost effective and performance of supercapacitors. Particularly, ternary nanocomposites systems of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), conducting polymer (CPs) films and metal oxide/hydroxide; CNT:CP:Metal oxide; has been proposed as potential electrodes for electrochemical supercapacitors, as alternatives to overcome the drawbacks associated with single component electrodes for the construction of high performance supercapacitors.

Ultrathin and porous NiCo2O4 nanosheets based 3D hierarchical electrode materials for high-performance asymmetric supercapacitor

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Fuyong Ren ◽  
Zhixiang Tong ◽  
Shufen Tan ◽  
Junnan Yao ◽  
Lijun Pei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Active Sites ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Electrode Materials ◽  
Negative Electrode ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Porous Nanosheets ◽  
High Area ◽  
Nico2o4 Nanosheets

Abstract It is well-known that designing unique morphology and structure of electrode materials is an effective strategy to achieve high performance supercapacitors. Herein, the ultrathin and porous NiCo2O4 nanosheets based 3D hierarchical electrode materials were synthesized via a simple and cost effective solvothermal method and subsequent annealing prosses. Since the ultrathin and porous nanosheets could accelerate the transmission of ions and provide numerous active sites, the obtained NiCo2O4 nanosheets based electrode exhibited excellent electrochemical performance with a high area capacity of 5.38 F cm−2 (2690 F g−1) at a current density of 10 mA cm−2 and a good rate performance of 41% capacitance retention at 50 mA cm−2. Furthermore, the corresponding asymmetry supercapacitor was assembled by using the resulted NiCo2O4 nanosheets and active carbon as positive electrode and negative electrode respectively. As expected, the corresponding supercapacitor delivered superior energy density of 52.6 Wh kg−1 at power density of 1.1 kW kg−1 and an extraordinary capacitive retention of 80.9% after 3,000 cycles at 20 mA cm−2. The high energy storage performances suggested that the obtained ultrathin and porous NiCo2O4 nanosheets based 3D hierarchical electrode materials could be prospective candidate in the field of energy storage.

scholarly journals Influence of Substrate in Roll-to-roll Coated Nanographite Electrodes for Metal-free Supercapacitors

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicklas Blomquist ◽  
Rajesh Koppolu ◽  
Christina Dahlström ◽  
Martti Toivakka ◽  
Håkan Olin
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Electrode Materials ◽  
Current Collector ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Equivalent Series Resistance ◽  
Energy Storage Devices ◽  
Storage Devices ◽  
Metal Free ◽  
Roll To Roll

AbstractDue to the high electric conductivity and large surface area of nanographites, such as graphene and graphite nanoplatlets, these materials have gained a large interest for use in energy storage devices. However, due to the thin flake geometry, the viscosity of aqueous suspensions containing these materials is high even at low solids contents. This together with the use of high viscosity bio-based binders makes it challenging to coat in a roll-to-roll process with sufficient coating thickness. Electrode materials for commercial energy storage devices are often suspended by organic solvents at high solids contents and coated onto metal foils used as current-collectors. Another interesting approach is to coat the electrode onto the separator, to enable large-scale production of flat cell stacks. Here, we demonstrate an alternative, water-based approach that utilize slot-die coating to coat aqueous nanographite suspension with nanocellulose binder onto the paper separator, and onto the current collector as reference, in aqueous metal-free supercapacitors. The results show that the difference in device equivalent series resistance (ESR) due to interfacial resistance between electrode and current collector was much lower than expected and thus similar or lower compared to other studies with a aqueous supercapacitors. This indicates that electrode coated paper separator substrates could be a promising approach and a possible route for manufacturing of low-cost, environmentally friendly and metal-free energy storage devices.

Poly-Siloxane Impregnation and Pyrolysis of Basalt Fibers for the Cost-Effective Production of CFCCs

2014 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Mingazzini ◽  
Matteo Scafè ◽  
Daniele Caretti ◽  
Daniele Nanni ◽  
Emiliano Burresi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Basalt Fiber ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Ceramic Composites ◽  
Silicon Oxycarbide ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Basalt Fibers ◽  
Thermomechanical Characteristics

In this work, the optimisation of basalt fiber CFCCs (Continuous Fiber Ceramic Composites) production is presented, focusing on the development of a silicon-oxycarbide matrix by PIP (Polymer Impregnation Pyrolysis). The use of low cost poly-siloxanes and basalt fibers is particularly promising for transports and constructions, where thermostructural CFCCs would be interesting for vehicle weight reduction and fire-resistant panels, but only on the condition that production costs are kept really low. The basalt/SiCO composites are suitable for mechanical applications up to 600°C and stand up temperatures up to 1200°C, also in oxidative environments. The key parameters to keep the production costs low are the furnace and moulds type, being steel probably the best material for both, since it withstands the pyrolysis temperature and can be easily cleaned, by oxidation, from any residue. Regarding the pyrolysis environment, two conditions were compared, nitrogen flow and vacuum, being perhaps the vacuum procedure less expensive and so potentially more appealing for a large scale production. The microstructure and the thermomechanical characteristics of the obtained composites were compared, Another key parameter in determining the production costs is the number of PIP steps, which has to be minimised. The present results support the conclusion that one PIP step in nitrogen or two PIP steps in vacuum can provide CFCC with satisfactory mechanical characteristics for thermomechanical applications in oxidative environments.

scholarly journals Structure Engineering in Biomass-Derived Carbon Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage

Research ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruizi Li ◽  
Yanping Zhou ◽  
Wenbin Li ◽  
Jixin Zhu ◽  
Wei Huang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Rational Design ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Electrode Materials ◽  
Carbon Materials ◽  
Electrochemical Energy Storage ◽  
Diffusion Kinetics ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Electrochemical Energy

Biomass-derived carbon materials (B-d-CMs) are considered as a group of very promising electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage (EES) by virtue of their naturally diverse and intricate microarchitectures, extensive and low-cost source, environmental friendliness, and feasibility to be produced in a large scale. However, the practical application of raw B-d-CMs in EES is limited by their relatively rare storage sites and low diffusion kinetics. In recent years, various strategies from structural design to material composite manipulation have been explored to overcome these problems. In this review, a controllable design of B-d-CM structures boosting their storage sites and diffusion kinetics for EES devices including SIBs, Li-S batteries, and supercapacitors is systematically summarized from the aspects of effects of pseudographic structure, hierarchical pore structure, surface functional groups, and heteroatom doping of B-d-CMs, as well as the composite structure of B-d-CMs, aiming to provide guidance for further rational design of the B-d-CMs for high-performance EES devices. Besides, the contemporary challenges and perspectives on B-d-CMs and their composites are also proposed for further practical application of B-d-CMs for EES devices.

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