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Conducting Polymer Nanocomposite-Based Supercapacitors (2016)
Book Chapter
Liew, S. Y., Walsh, D. A., & Chen, G. Z. (2016). Conducting Polymer Nanocomposite-Based Supercapacitors. In V. Kumar, S. Kalia, & H. C. Swart (Eds.), Conducting polymer hybrids (269-304). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46458-9_9

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.

Extremely Stable Platinum-Amorphous Carbon Electrocatalyst within Hollow Graphitized Carbon Nanofibers for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction (2016)
Journal Article
Gimenez-Lopez, M. D. C., Kurtoglu, A., Walsh, D. A., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2016). Extremely Stable Platinum-Amorphous Carbon Electrocatalyst within Hollow Graphitized Carbon Nanofibers for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Advanced Materials, 28(41), 9103-9108. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201602485

Unprecedented electrochemical stabilization of platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs) is presented, upon insertion into shortened hollow graphitized carbon nanofibers (PtNP@S-GNF) toward the oxygen-reduction reaction for fuel-cell applications. In contrast t... Read More about Extremely Stable Platinum-Amorphous Carbon Electrocatalyst within Hollow Graphitized Carbon Nanofibers for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction.

Bridging the performance gap between electric double-layer capacitors and batteries with high-energy/high-power carbon nanotube-based electrodes (2016)
Journal Article
Matabosch Coromina, H., Adeniran, B., Mokaya, R., & Walsh, D. A. (2016). Bridging the performance gap between electric double-layer capacitors and batteries with high-energy/high-power carbon nanotube-based electrodes. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(38), 14586-14594. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6ta05686e

Electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) store electrical energy at the interface between charged electrodes and electrolytes and are higher-power devices than batteries. However, the amount of energy stored in EDLCs cannot compete with that in batte... Read More about Bridging the performance gap between electric double-layer capacitors and batteries with high-energy/high-power carbon nanotube-based electrodes.

Hydrogen Electrooxidation under Conditions of High Mass Transport in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids and the Role of Underpotential-Deposited Hydrogen (2016)
Journal Article
Goodwin, S. E., & Walsh, D. A. (2016). Hydrogen Electrooxidation under Conditions of High Mass Transport in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids and the Role of Underpotential-Deposited Hydrogen. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 120(21), 11498-11507. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b01592

The hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR), an electrocatalytic reaction of fundamental and applied interest, was studied in the protic ionic liquid (PIL) diethylmethylammonium trifluoromethanesulfonate, [dema][TfO], at Pt electrodes using rotating disk e... Read More about Hydrogen Electrooxidation under Conditions of High Mass Transport in Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids and the Role of Underpotential-Deposited Hydrogen.

Developing energy efficient lignin biomass processing – towards understanding mediator behaviour in ionic liquids (2016)
Journal Article
Eshtaya, M., Ejigu, A., Stephens, G., Walsh, D. A., Chen, G. Z., & Croft, A. K. (2016). Developing energy efficient lignin biomass processing – towards understanding mediator behaviour in ionic liquids. Faraday Discussions, 190, 127-145. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5fd00226e

Environmental concerns have brought attention to the requirement for more efficient and renewable processes for chemicals production. Lignin is the second most abundant natural polymer, and might serve as a sustainable resource for manufacturing fuel... Read More about Developing energy efficient lignin biomass processing – towards understanding mediator behaviour in ionic liquids.