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Environmental and energy gains from using molten magnesium-sodium-potassium chlorides for electro-metallisation of refractory metal oxides (2015)
Journal Article
Li, W., Yuan, Y., Jin, X., Chen, H., & Chen, G. Z. (2015). Environmental and energy gains from using molten magnesium-sodium-potassium chlorides for electro-metallisation of refractory metal oxides. Progress in Natural Science, 25(6), 650-653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnsc.2015.11.002

© 2015 The Authors. The molten eutectic mixture of magnesium, sodium and potassium chlorides (MgCl2-NaCl-KCl) has inappreciable solubility for oxide ions, and can help disengage a carbon anode from the oxide ions generated at a metal oxide cathode, a... Read More about Environmental and energy gains from using molten magnesium-sodium-potassium chlorides for electro-metallisation of refractory metal oxides.

Correlation of energy storage performance of supercapacitor with iso-propanol improved wettability of aqueous electrolyte on activated carbon electrodes of various apparent densities (2015)
Journal Article
Gromadskyi, D. G., Chae, J. H., Norman, S. A., & Chen, G. Z. (2015). Correlation of energy storage performance of supercapacitor with iso-propanol improved wettability of aqueous electrolyte on activated carbon electrodes of various apparent densities. Applied Energy, 159, 39-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.08.108

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. Addition of iso-propanol in the aqueous electrolyte of 1.0mol/L Na2SO4 was found to be most effective at about 8vol.% to minimise electrolyte surface tension, and hence maximise electrolyte wetting on a commercial supercapacitor... Read More about Correlation of energy storage performance of supercapacitor with iso-propanol improved wettability of aqueous electrolyte on activated carbon electrodes of various apparent densities.

Organoaqueous calcium chloride electrolytes for capacitive charge storage in carbon nanotubes at sub-zero-temperatures (2015)
Journal Article
Gao, Y., Qin, Z., Guan, L., Wang, X., & Chen, G. Z. (2015). Organoaqueous calcium chloride electrolytes for capacitive charge storage in carbon nanotubes at sub-zero-temperatures. Chemical Communications, 51(54), 10819-10822. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cc03048j

© The Royal Society of Chemistry. Solutions of calcium chloride in mixed water and formamide are excellent electrolytes for capacitive charge storage in partially oxidised carbon nanotubes at unprecedented sub-zero-temperatures (e.g. 67% capacitance... Read More about Organoaqueous calcium chloride electrolytes for capacitive charge storage in carbon nanotubes at sub-zero-temperatures.

Cell voltage versus electrode potential range in aqueous supercapacitors (2015)
Journal Article
Dai, Z., Peng, C., Chae, J. H., Ng, K. C., & Chen, G. Z. (2015). Cell voltage versus electrode potential range in aqueous supercapacitors. Scientific Reports, 5(1), Article 9854. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep09854

Supercapacitors with aqueous electrolytes and nanostructured composite electrodes are attractive because of their high charging-discharging speed, long cycle life, low environmental impact and wide commercial affordability. However, the energy capaci... Read More about Cell voltage versus electrode potential range in aqueous supercapacitors.

Supercapatteries with Hybrids of Redox Active Polymers and Nanostructured Carbons (2015)
Book Chapter
Stevenson, A. J., Gromadskyi, D. G., Hu, D., Chae, J., Guan, L., Yu, L., & Chen, G. Z. (2015). Supercapatteries with Hybrids of Redox Active Polymers and Nanostructured Carbons. In X. Feng (Ed.), Nanocarbons for Advanced Energy Storage. Volume 1 (179-210). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9783527680054.ch6

© 2015 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA. All rights reserved. This chapter considers the development and role of supercapatteries as practical energy storage devices for commercial development. Current battery technology can produce a high power de... Read More about Supercapatteries with Hybrids of Redox Active Polymers and Nanostructured Carbons.

Electrochemical preparation of fine powders of nickel-boron alloys in molten chlorides for magnetic hydrogenation catalysts (2015)
Journal Article
Peng, J., He, R., Tan, M., Dou, Y., Wang, Z., Chen, G. Z., & Jin, X. (2015). Electrochemical preparation of fine powders of nickel-boron alloys in molten chlorides for magnetic hydrogenation catalysts. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 162(4), H271-H277. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0871504jes

© The Author(s) 2015. Fine powders of magnetic nickel-boron alloys were prepared for the first time by direct electrochemical reduction of the 2Ni3(BO3)2/B2O3, Ni3(BO3)2/NiO and Ni3(BO3)2/3NiO composite precursors in molten CaCl2-NaCl at 700°C. Precu... Read More about Electrochemical preparation of fine powders of nickel-boron alloys in molten chlorides for magnetic hydrogenation catalysts.

Redox electrolytes in supercapacitors (2015)
Journal Article
Akinwolemiwa, B., Peng, C., & Chen, G. Z. (2015). Redox electrolytes in supercapacitors. Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 162(5), A5054-A5059. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0111505jes

© The Author(s) 2015. Most methods for improving supercapacitor performance are based on developments of electrode materials to optimally exploit their storage mechanisms, namely electrical double layer capacitance and pseudocapacitance. In such case... Read More about Redox electrolytes in supercapacitors.