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Enhancing Vanadium Redox Battery Performance Using Tungsten-Bismuth-Based Oxide Nanostructures As Electrode Modifiers, Taher Al Najjar Jun 2022

Enhancing Vanadium Redox Battery Performance Using Tungsten-Bismuth-Based Oxide Nanostructures As Electrode Modifiers, Taher Al Najjar

Theses and Dissertations

Renewable energy power plants require high efficiency conversion and storage systems that can store high amounts of energy and can be integrated with the electrical grid. Vanadium redox flow batteries are very promising for this application. However, one major drawback of VRFBs is their low power density which means that right now they cannot replace non-renewable energy sources. Different carbon materials are used as electrodes in VRFBs and each carbon material affects the battery’s performance in a different way. Modification of these electrodes can increase the power density of the battery. Some metal oxides like tungsten oxide can enhance vanadium …


Nitro-Aromatic Polymers For Conversion-Style Battery Cathodic Materials, Brady P. Samuelson May 2022

Nitro-Aromatic Polymers For Conversion-Style Battery Cathodic Materials, Brady P. Samuelson

Honors Thesis

The development of organic electrode materials in rechargeable batteries has seen a resurgence in recent decades. This spike in interest is mostly due to the increased investments in renewable energy sources, grid-scale energy storage, and the rapid transition to electric vehicles. Current lithium battery cathode materials typically use some form of lithium metal oxide (specific capacity: 272 mAh g-1 which has problems with limited capacity, thermal runaway, and an unreliable supply chain. Our research group’s solution involves investigating new lightweight, organic redox groups combined with a conductive polymer backbone to serve as a possible replacement for the cathode in …


Study On Electrodeposition Of Antimony In Choline Chloride-Ethylene Glycol Eutectic Solvent, Hao Wang, Xiao-Zhou Cao, Xiang-Xin Xue Apr 2022

Study On Electrodeposition Of Antimony In Choline Chloride-Ethylene Glycol Eutectic Solvent, Hao Wang, Xiao-Zhou Cao, Xiang-Xin Xue

Journal of Electrochemistry

Antimony is a chemically stable metal that has been widely used in industry, military and other fields. The use of electrodeposition to prepare antimony coating has the advantages of simple operation and low cost. The deep eutectic solvent (DES) is a eutectic mixture composed of a hydrogen bond donor and a hydrogen bond acceptor at a fixed molar ratio. It has the advantages of wide electrochemical window, high thermal stability, easy preparation, and low cost. Selecting DES as the electrolyte for electrodeposition can avoid the hydrogen evolution reaction of the aqueous system and the toxicity of ionic liquids. In recent …


New Bis-Isoxazole With Monoterpenic Skeleton: Regioselective Synthesis, Spectroscopicinvestigation, Electrochemical, And Density Functional Theory (Dft) Studies, Ali Oubella, Meryem Hrimla, Mouhi Eddine Hachim, Mourad Fawzi, Abdoullah Bimoussa, Lahoucine Bahsis, Aziz Boutouil, Aziz Auhmani, Abdelkhalek Riahi, My Youssef Ait Itto Jan 2022

New Bis-Isoxazole With Monoterpenic Skeleton: Regioselective Synthesis, Spectroscopicinvestigation, Electrochemical, And Density Functional Theory (Dft) Studies, Ali Oubella, Meryem Hrimla, Mouhi Eddine Hachim, Mourad Fawzi, Abdoullah Bimoussa, Lahoucine Bahsis, Aziz Boutouil, Aziz Auhmani, Abdelkhalek Riahi, My Youssef Ait Itto

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

A novel bis-isoxazole was synthesized from (R)-Carvone and p-methylbenzaldoxime, via two successive [3+2] cycloaddition reactions (32CA). The newly obtained bis-isoxazole has been fully characterized by HRMS and NMR spectroscopy. The HMBC experiment was performed to determine the stereo and the regioselectivity of the reaction. The electrochemical behavior of the studied compound, in oxidation and reduction processes, was examined using the cyclic voltammetry technique. In addition, the regioselectivity of the [3+2] cycloaddition reaction and the molecular structure of the title compound was performed by density functional theory (DFT). The HOMO and LUMO orbitals were investigated to determine the electronic properties of …


Insight Into Electrochemical Degradation Of Cartap (In Padan 95sp) By Boron-Doped Diamond Electrode: Kinetic And Effect Of Water Matrices, Hoang Nguyen Jan 2022

Insight Into Electrochemical Degradation Of Cartap (In Padan 95sp) By Boron-Doped Diamond Electrode: Kinetic And Effect Of Water Matrices, Hoang Nguyen

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

In this work, the kinetic electrochemical degradation of Cartap (CT) (in Padan 95 SP) at boron-doped diamond (BDD) electrode was investigated. This study indicated that the degradation of CT underwent both direct and indirect oxidations. Water matrices can either accelerate or inhibit the removal efficiency of CT: adding 15 mM Cl- improved kCT from 0.039 min-1 to 0.054 min-1 (increased by 38%), while kCT decreased by 61.5% and 64% when increasing the concentration of HCO3- and humic acid (HA) to 15 mM and 15 mg L-1, respectively. CT degradation was inhibited …