Nanostructured, enhanced with silicon oxide, covered with a nanometer - thin layer of aluminum oxide and cobalt oxide — these treatments optimize
the electrochemical properties of the material, but are nonetheless simple to apply.
Tina Casey at sister site Cleantechnica has come across a different approach to harnessing the waste from food processing: harnessing
the electrochemical properties of apple peels for a sodium - ion battery.
Ion (electrolyte) imbalances in the brain, which alter
the electrochemical properties of neuronal cell membranes
The team at Colorado State measured
the electrochemical properties of each compound in the solution phase.
The researchers wanted to determine how those defects changed the physical and
electrochemical properties of the molybdenum sulfide.
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The electrochemical properties of the carbonized fungal biomass - mineral composite were tested in a supercapacitor and a lithium - ion battery, and it [the composite] was found to have excellent electrochemical properties.
Not exact matches
The investigators hope to improve even further on these
electrochemical properties by optimizing their process and allowing for doping or modification
of the raw materials.
It demonstrated good
electrochemical properties and underwent 150 charge / discharge cycles without any notable loss
of efficiency.
Perfection is not everything, according to an international team
of researchers whose 2 - D materials study shows that defects can enhance a material's physical,
electrochemical, magnetic, energy and catalytic
properties.
In a paper published in Chemical Science, an open access journal
of the Royal Society
of Chemistry, researchers in the lab
of Ellen Matson, assistant professor
of chemistry, describe modifying a metal - oxide cluster, which has promising electroactive
properties, so that it is nearly twice as effective as the unmodified cluster for
electrochemical energy storage in a redox flow battery.
Spatially - resolved characterization as a function
of position on the thin film, and hence as a function
of the graded thin film parameter: chemical composition (XRF, RBS) and crystallographic structure (XRD, Raman); microstructure (SEM, AFM) and surface
properties (PES / XPS / UPS, KP);
electrochemical (SECM), electrical (conductivity, Seebeck), optical (uv - vis, FTIR, PL)
properties.