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All-Inorganic Electrical Insulation Systems for High-Power Density Electrical Machines (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kudrynskyi, Z., Connor, P. H., Cooper, T. P., Wadge, M. D., Kerfoot, J., Zheng, X., Felfel, R., Korolkov, V., Kubal, M., Gerada, C., & Grant, D. M. (2024, June). All-Inorganic Electrical Insulation Systems for High-Power Density Electrical Machines. Presented at 2024 IEEE 5th International Conference on Dielectrics (ICD), Toulouse, France

This paper introduces the concept of ‘All-Inorganic Electrical Insulation (EI) System’ to enable the next generation of high-power-density electrical machines (EMs) that can operate at extreme conditions, namely high voltages (V) up to 1 kV DC and hi... Read More about All-Inorganic Electrical Insulation Systems for High-Power Density Electrical Machines.

Controlling ZIF-67 film properties in water-based cathodic electrochemical deposition (2024)
Journal Article
Elsayed, E., Brevis, I., Pandiyan, S., Wildman, R., van der Zee, K. G., & Tokay, B. (2024). Controlling ZIF-67 film properties in water-based cathodic electrochemical deposition. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 338, Article 124820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jssc.2024.124820

One of the main approaches to increase the surface area of a substrate is through depositing a film of a porous materials such as Zeolite imidazole framework (ZIF). ZIF films have shown surpassing capabilities because of their zeolite-like features,... Read More about Controlling ZIF-67 film properties in water-based cathodic electrochemical deposition.

SiC/YAG composite coatings by a novel liquid fuelled high velocity oxy-fuel suspension thermal spray (2023)
Journal Article
Venturi, F., Rincon Romero, A., & Hussain, T. (2023). SiC/YAG composite coatings by a novel liquid fuelled high velocity oxy-fuel suspension thermal spray. Surface and Coatings Technology, 471, Article 129865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2023.129865

Despite recent advances in suspension-based thermal spray techniques, there is still a need to widen the capability of available thermal spray setups to handle suspension to explore new compositions and improve the properties and performance of exist... Read More about SiC/YAG composite coatings by a novel liquid fuelled high velocity oxy-fuel suspension thermal spray.

A thermo-kinetic investigation on the thermal degradation of polyvinyl chloride in the presence of magnetite and hematite (2022)
Journal Article
Altarawneh, S., Al-Harahsheh, M., Buttress, A., Dodds, C., & Kingman, S. (2022). A thermo-kinetic investigation on the thermal degradation of polyvinyl chloride in the presence of magnetite and hematite. Thermochimica Acta, 718, Article 179390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tca.2022.179390

Electric arc furnace dust (EAFD) which is accumulated in large amounts world-wide contains hematite (Fe2O3) and significant quantities of magnetite (Fe3O4). Waste polyvinyl chloride (PVC) also poses a great environmental threat aside to accumulated E... Read More about A thermo-kinetic investigation on the thermal degradation of polyvinyl chloride in the presence of magnetite and hematite.

Highly Emissive Perylene Diimide-Based Metallacages and Their Host–Guest Chemistry for Information Encryption (2020)
Journal Article
Hou, Y., Zhang, Z., Lu, S., Yuan, J., Zhu, Q., Chen, W.-P., Ling, S., Li, X., Zheng, Y.-Z., Zhu, K., & Zhang, M. (2020). Highly Emissive Perylene Diimide-Based Metallacages and Their Host–Guest Chemistry for Information Encryption. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142(44), 18763–18768. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c09904

Here we report two highly emissive perylene diimide (PDI)-based metallacages and explore their complexation with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, such as pyrene, triphenylene, and perylene. The fluorescence quantum yields of metallacages exceed 90%... Read More about Highly Emissive Perylene Diimide-Based Metallacages and Their Host–Guest Chemistry for Information Encryption.

Kinetic Control of Interpenetration in Fe–Biphenyl-4,4′-dicarboxylate Metal–Organic Frameworks by Coordination and Oxidation Modulation (2019)
Journal Article
Bara, D., Wilson, C., Mörtel, M., Khusniyarov, M. M., Ling, S., Slater, B., Sproules, S., & Forgan, R. S. (2019). Kinetic Control of Interpenetration in Fe–Biphenyl-4,4′-dicarboxylate Metal–Organic Frameworks by Coordination and Oxidation Modulation. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(20), 8346-8357. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b03269

Phase control in the self-assembly of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is often a case of trial and error; judicious control over a number of synthetic variables is required to select the desired topology and control features such as interpenetration... Read More about Kinetic Control of Interpenetration in Fe–Biphenyl-4,4′-dicarboxylate Metal–Organic Frameworks by Coordination and Oxidation Modulation.

Anion-binding-induced electrochemical signal transduction in ferrocenylimidazolium: combined electrochemical experimental and theoretical investigation (2019)
Journal Article
Weng, T.-Q., Huang, Y.-F., Xue, L.-S., Cheng, J., Jin, S., Liu, S.-H., Wu, D.-Y., & Chen, G. Z. (2019). Anion-binding-induced electrochemical signal transduction in ferrocenylimidazolium: combined electrochemical experimental and theoretical investigation. Molecules, 24(2), Article 238. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24020238

Five ferrocene alkymethylimidazolium cations 1a–1d and 2 with different alkyl spacer lengths were reinvestigated using voltammetry and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The voltammetric responses of ligand 2 toward various anions are desc... Read More about Anion-binding-induced electrochemical signal transduction in ferrocenylimidazolium: combined electrochemical experimental and theoretical investigation.

Cross-linked Ni(OH)<inf>2</inf>/CuCo<inf>2</inf>S<inf>4</inf>/Ni networks as binder-free electrodes for high performance supercapatteries (2018)
Journal Article
Tang, N., You, H., Li, M., Chen, G. Z., & Zhang, L. (2018). Cross-linked Ni(OH)2/CuCo2S4/Ni networks as binder-free electrodes for high performance supercapatteries. Nanoscale, 10(44), 20526-20532. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8nr05662e

The heterogeneous Ni(OH)2/CuCo2S4/Ni electrode is constructed by appropriately adjusting the time-dependent hydrothermal and electrodeposition process. A hybrid device exhibits 39.7 W h kg-1 of specific energy and 365.3 W kg-1 of specific power, with... Read More about Cross-linked Ni(OH)<inf>2</inf>/CuCo<inf>2</inf>S<inf>4</inf>/Ni networks as binder-free electrodes for high performance supercapatteries.

Titanium carbide nanocube core induced interfacial growth of crystalline polypyrrole/polyvinyl alcohol lamellar shell for wide-temperature range supercapacitors (2014)
Journal Article
Weng, Y.-T., Pan, H.-A., Wu, N.-L., & Chen, G. Z. (2015). Titanium carbide nanocube core induced interfacial growth of crystalline polypyrrole/polyvinyl alcohol lamellar shell for wide-temperature range supercapacitors. Journal of Power Sources, 274, 1118-1125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpowsour.2014.10.158

This is the first investigation on electrically conducting polymers–based supercapacitor electrodes over a wide temperature range, from −18 °C to 60 °C. A high-performance supercapacitor electrode material consisting of TiC nanocube core and conforma... Read More about Titanium carbide nanocube core induced interfacial growth of crystalline polypyrrole/polyvinyl alcohol lamellar shell for wide-temperature range supercapacitors.