Showing papers in "Electrochimica Acta in 2017"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors directly observed the propagation of Li metal through a promising polycrystalline solid electrolyte based on the garnet mineral structure (Li6.25Al0.25La3Zr2O12).

TL;DR: In this paper, a manganese sesquioxide (Mn2O3) with Mn(III) state as the cathode material for rechargeable zinc ion battery was studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, a two-dimensional accordion-like alk-Ti 3 C 2 was prepared by acid etching and alkaline intercalation treatment, and demonstrated as a new platform for the simultaneous electrochemical detection toward multiple heavy metal ions using square wave anodic stripping voltammetry.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixture of olive residue, oil and vegetable water, known as alperujo, OR, was prepared by KOH and H3PO4 activation, and the results showed that the chemical surfaces of the activated samples were very different as shown by XPS and TPD.

TL;DR: Using porous electrodes containing redox-active nickel hexacyanoferrate (NiHCF) nanoparticles, the authors construct and test a device for capacitive deionization in a two flow-channel device where the intercalation electrodes are in direct contact with an anion-exchange membrane.

TL;DR: The Ti3C2Tx could be thus applied for electrochemical reactions in a cathodic potential window i.e. for ultrasensitive detection of H2O2 down to nM level with a response time of approx.

TL;DR: In this article, Nitrate reduction on Cu (100 and Cu (111) surfaces in alkaline and acidic solutions was studied by electrochemical methods coupled with online and in situ characterization techniques (mass spectrometry, ion chromatography and Fourier transformed infra-red spectroscopy) to evaluate the reaction mechanism and products on the different surfaces.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used high conductive carbon fiber-graphite felt (GF) as collector and electrodeposit zinc under constant voltage to fabricate a self-supported Zn@GF negative electrode.

TL;DR: In this paper, flexible and freestanding solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) films based on poly ethylene oxide (PEO) and poly (vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) complexed with LiNO3 have been developed by solution casting method.

TL;DR: In this paper, a composite Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO) ceramic-based solid electrolyte has been successfully incorporated into the polyethylene oxide (PEO) polymer by tape casting.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors obtained the aqueous titanium carbonitride (Ti3CNTx) colloidal solution in the absence of hydrofluoric acid or organic solvents' intercalation processes and suppressed the notorious nanosheets restacking issue through a freeze-drying strategy of the colloidal dispersion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the thermal synthesis of graphite felt (GF) from polymeric precursors and the physical and electrochemical properties of flexible graphite felts are summarised.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrated the sonochemical preparation of cubic RuS 2 nanoparticles with average size in the range of 20nm and investigated their supercapacitive properties in detail using cyclic voltammetry, charge discharge analysis and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, the specific surface area and pore volume of activated corncob carbon were analyzed using Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) method.

TL;DR: In this article, the structure and morphology of the synthesized V2O5 thin films revealed the formation of intermixed flakes and high specific capacitance of 735 F g−1 (at scan rate of 1 mV s−1) for all-solid state symmetric supercapacitor (FASC) device.

TL;DR: In this article, the transference number of polyethylene oxide (PEO) and poly(CF3SO2)2 salt is determined using impedance spectroscopy and two potentiostatic polarization segments with opposite sign of d.c. bias.

TL;DR: In this paper, the corrosion behavior of CP-Ti and Ti-TiB composite produced by selective laser melting (SLM) in the artificial simulated body fluid (Hank's solution) at body temperature was investigated systematically by using electrochemical measurements (potentiodynamic polarisation curves and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy), together with some detailed structural characterisations.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of polyaniline (PANI) embedded copper cobaltite (CuCo 2 O 4 ) as an electrode material for high performance supercapacitor application was presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) membranes composed of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), and lithium bis(trifluoromethane sulfonimide) (LiTFSI) are prepared and investigated, and the results showed that addition of TPU to the blend polymer results in loss of the crystallinity of PEO and improve the dissolution of lithium salts into the SPE matrix.

TL;DR: A simple and efficient eletrochemical sensing platform for simultaneous detection of hydroquinone (HQ), catechol (CC) and resorcinol (RC) based on the Au-Pd bimetallic and graphene is described in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, a hierarchical porous carbon (HPC) material with rich oxygen-containing groups at the surface was prepared by a facile one-pot approach using wild jujube pit (WJP) as the biomass precursor.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of salts, such as sulfates and chlorides, in the electrochemical treatment of wastewater was investigated, and the presence of sulfates accelerated the removal of ciprofloxacin and sulfamethoxazole.

TL;DR: In this article, the catalytic activity of cobalt based MOF and its composites with graphene oxide (GO) towards electrochemical oxidation of methanol is studied, which is attributed to the synergetic effect of the cobalt and the GO substrate.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conductive activated cotton textile (ACT) with porous tubular structure was derived from natural cotton textile to load sulfur, which was further wrapped with partially reduced graphene oxide (ACT/S-rGO) to immobilize lithium polysulfides.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mesopore-dominant hierarchical porous carbon (N,O-HPC-850) was synthesized using cattle bones as precursors via pre-carbonization and carbonization combined with KOH activation.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a composite electrolyte which is composed of uniform distributed Li ion conducting Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12 (LLZTO) fillers in PEO/LiClO4 matrix.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple in-situ hydrolysis approach is successfully developed to construct a binder-free system consisting of acetate anion-intercalated nickel cobalt layered double hydroxides (A-NiCo-LDHs) and Ni foam (NF) without additional alkali sources.

TL;DR: In this article, a multipurpose α-MnO2 nanorods were synthesized by facile hydrothermal method and employed as a low cost counter electrode in dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC) and sensor for the detection of nitroaromatic compounds.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed the theory of the electrical double layer in ionic liquids as proposed earlier by Kornyshev (2007), and derived a modified expression for differential capacitance, which makes the results closer to typical experimental observations, and makes it appealing to use this formalism for treatment of experimental data.

TL;DR: In this paper, vanadium pentoxide nanorods (V 2 O 5 -NRs) were used as a low-cost V 2D catalyst with reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and Vulcan XC (V2 O 5 /Vulcan XC) for microbial fuel cell.