Graphite felt with vapor grown carbon fibers as electrodes for vanadium redox flow batteries

Rare Metals

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages 1-4

  Yang, Hsiharng ^a   Hung, Chein Hsin ^a   Wang, Shuo Ping ^a   Chiang, I Long ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CeTech Cooperation Ltd   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube; Graphite felt; Vanadium redox flow battery; Vapor grown carbon fibers

Indexed keywords

CELL TEST; CHARGE/DISCHARGE; COBALT CATALYST; COBALT NANOPARTICLES; GRAPHITE FELT; GRAPHITE FELTS; NICKEL CATALYST; VANADIUM REDOX FLOW; VANADIUM REDOX FLOW BATTERY; VAPOR GROWN CARBON FIBER;

CARBON NANOTUBES; CATALYSTS; COBALT; EXPERIMENTS; FELT; FELTS; FIBERS; GRAPHITE; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; GRAPHITE FIBERS; NICKEL; NICKEL COATINGS; NITRIDES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; VANADIUM; VAPORS;

CARBON FIBERS;

BATTERIES; CARBON FIBERS; COATINGS; ELECTRODES; FELTS; NICKEL; NITRIDES; VANADIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84862930978     PISSN: 10010521     EISSN: 18677185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12598-011-0226-4     Document Type: Article

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