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Research Progress and Perspectives on High Voltage, Flame Retardant Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The electrolyte is an indispensable constituent in lithium ion batteries, and its role conducts electricity by means of the transportation of charge carries between the pair... Read More about Research Progress and Perspectives on High Voltage, Flame Retardant Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries.

Fluorinated electrolytes for li-ion batteries: the lithium difluoro(oxalato)borate additive for stabilizing the solid electrolyte interphase (2017)
Journal Article

Fluorinated electrolytes based on fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC) have been considered as promising alternative electrolytes for high-voltage and high-energy capacity lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, the compatibility of the fluorinated electrol... Read More about Fluorinated electrolytes for li-ion batteries: the lithium difluoro(oxalato)borate additive for stabilizing the solid electrolyte interphase.

Controllable synthesis of (NH4)Fe2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O using two-step route: Ultrasonic-intensified impinging stream pre-treatment followed by hydrothermal treatment (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. (NH4)Fe2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O samples with different morphology are successfully synthesized via two-step synthesis route – ultrasonic-intensified impinging stream pre-treatment followed by hydrothermal treatment (UIHT) method. The eff... Read More about Controllable synthesis of (NH4)Fe2(PO4)2(OH)·2H2O using two-step route: Ultrasonic-intensified impinging stream pre-treatment followed by hydrothermal treatment.

Development of the Fray-Farthing-Chen Cambridge Process: towards the sustainable production of titanium and its alloys (2017)
Journal Article

The Kroll process has been employed for titanium extraction since the 1950s. It is a labour and energy intensive multi-step semi-batch process. The post-extraction processes for making the raw titanium into alloys and products are also excessive, inc... Read More about Development of the Fray-Farthing-Chen Cambridge Process: towards the sustainable production of titanium and its alloys.

Oxidation Decomposition Mechanism of Fluoroethylene Carbonate-Based Electrolytes for High-Voltage Lithium Ion Batteries: A DFT Calculation and Experimental Study (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim The oxidative decomposition mechanism of fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC) used in high-voltage batteries is investigated by using density functional theory (DFT). Radical cation FEC•+ is formed from F... Read More about Oxidation Decomposition Mechanism of Fluoroethylene Carbonate-Based Electrolytes for High-Voltage Lithium Ion Batteries: A DFT Calculation and Experimental Study.

Highly Efficient Sulfonic/Carboxylic Dual-Acid Synergistic Catalysis for Esterification Enabled by Sulfur-Rich Graphene Oxide (2017)
Journal Article

A new sulfonic/carboxylic dual-acid catalyst based on sulfur-rich graphene oxide (GO-S) was readily prepared and used as a highly efficient and reusable solid acid catalyst toward the esterification of oleic acid with methanol for biodiesel productio... Read More about Highly Efficient Sulfonic/Carboxylic Dual-Acid Synergistic Catalysis for Esterification Enabled by Sulfur-Rich Graphene Oxide.

Faradaic processes beyond Nernst’s law: density functional theory assisted modelling of partial electron delocalisation and pseudocapacitance in graphene oxides (2017)
Journal Article

The study of electron delocalisation in oxygen atom segregated zones in graphene, aided by the first-principles density functional theory, has revealed extra energy bands of ≥ 2 eV wide around the Fermi level, predicting faradaic charge storage occur... Read More about Faradaic processes beyond Nernst’s law: density functional theory assisted modelling of partial electron delocalisation and pseudocapacitance in graphene oxides.

Advances on transition metal oxides catalysts for formaldehyde oxidation: a review (2017)
Journal Article

This review highlights recent advances in the development of transition metal based catalysts for formaldehyde oxidation, particularly the enhancement of their catalytic activity for low temperature oxidation. Various factors that enhance low tempera... Read More about Advances on transition metal oxides catalysts for formaldehyde oxidation: a review.

Mechanisms and Designs of Asymmetrical Electrochemical Capacitors (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Different charge storage mechanisms in electrochemical energy storage devices are reviewed, including non-Faradaic capacitive, Faradaic capacitive, Faradaic non-capacitive, and their combinations. Specifically, Faradaic capacitive... Read More about Mechanisms and Designs of Asymmetrical Electrochemical Capacitors.

Rapid preparation of high electrochemical performance LiFePO 4 /C composite cathode material with an ultrasonic-intensified micro-impinging jetting reactor (2017)
Journal Article

A joint chemical reactor system referred to as an ultrasonic-intensified micro-impinging jetting reactor (UIJR), which possesses the feature of fast micro-mixing, was proposed and has been employed for rapid preparation of FePO4 particles that are am... Read More about Rapid preparation of high electrochemical performance LiFePO 4 /C composite cathode material with an ultrasonic-intensified micro-impinging jetting reactor.

Magnesia-stabilised zirconia solid electrolyte assisted electrochemical investigation of iron ions in the SiO2-CaO-MgO-Al2O3 molten slag at 1723 K (2017)
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Production of metallic iron through molten oxide electrolysis using inert electrodes is an alternative route for fast ironmaking without CO2 emissions. The fact that many inorganic oxides melt at ultrahigh temperatures (>1500 K) challenges convention... Read More about Magnesia-stabilised zirconia solid electrolyte assisted electrochemical investigation of iron ions in the SiO2-CaO-MgO-Al2O3 molten slag at 1723 K.

Synthesis and applications of MOF-derived porous nanostructures (2017)
Journal Article

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) represent a class of porous material which is formed by strong bonds between metal ions and organic linkers. By careful selection of constituents, MOFs can exhibit very high surface area, large pore volume, and excelle... Read More about Synthesis and applications of MOF-derived porous nanostructures.

Inverse nonnegative local coordinate factorization for visual tracking (2017)
Journal Article

Recently, nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) with part based representation has been widely used for appearance modelling in visual tracking. Unfortunately, not all the targets can be successfully decomposed as "parts" unless some rigorous condit... Read More about Inverse nonnegative local coordinate factorization for visual tracking.

Effect of the changed electrolytic cell on the current efficiency in FFC Cambridge process (2017)
Journal Article

Low current efficiency of the FFC Cambridge process made it no obvious advantages in cost compared with the traditional process to produce metals. Effect of the changed electrolysis cell on the current efficiency has been studied. Put the cathode int... Read More about Effect of the changed electrolytic cell on the current efficiency in FFC Cambridge process.

Electrolytes for electrochemical energy storage (2017)
Journal Article

An electrolyte is a key component of electrochemical energy storage (EES) devices and its properties greatly affect the energy capacity, rate performance, cyclability and safety of all EES devices. This article offers a critical review of the recent... Read More about Electrolytes for electrochemical energy storage.

Dissolved redox species for the improvement of the performance of supercapacitors (2017)
Journal Article

© 2019, Research Trend. All rights reserved. The recent surging investigations into the applications of redox active electrolytes for the improvement of charge storage in supercapacitors and other related hybrid devices have shown a lot of promise bu... Read More about Dissolved redox species for the improvement of the performance of supercapacitors.

Advanced extractive electrometallurgy (2017)
Book Chapter

© 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. This chapter starts with a brief introduction of current technologies for metal extraction via chemical and electrochemical means. A focus is given to recent research and development of new methods for titan... Read More about Advanced extractive electrometallurgy.

Attempts to Improve the Energy Capacity of Capacitive Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices (2017)
Journal Article

This article reviews selected literatures from the authors' research group on the development of capacitive electrochemical energy storage (EES) devices, focusing on supercapacitors and supercapatteries at both the electrode material level and device... Read More about Attempts to Improve the Energy Capacity of Capacitive Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices.

Conducting Polymer Nanocomposite-Based Supercapacitors (2016)
Book Chapter

The use of nanocomposites of electronically-conducting polymers for supercapacitors has increased significantly over the past years, due to their high capacitances and abilities to withstand many charge-discharge cycles. We have recently been investi... Read More about Conducting Polymer Nanocomposite-Based Supercapacitors.

Supercapacitor and supercapattery as emerging electrochemical energy stores (2016)
Journal Article

This article reviews critically selected recent literature on electrochemical energy storage (EES) technologies, focusing on supercapacitor and also supercapattery which is a generic term for various hybrid devices combining the merits of rechargeabl... Read More about Supercapacitor and supercapattery as emerging electrochemical energy stores.