Thermo-chemical treatments based on NH3/O2 for improved graphite-based fiber electrodes in vanadium redox flow batteries

Carbon

Volumn 60, Issue , 2013, Pages 280-288

  Flox, Cristina ^a   Rubio García, Javier ^a   Skoumal, Marcel ^a   Andreu, Teresa ^a   Morante, Juan Ramón ^a,b  

^a CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Polyacrylonitrile fiber Electrochemical properties Electrochemical surface area Energy storage Vanadium redox flow battery

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL BEHAVIORS; ELECTROCHEMICAL SURFACE AREA; ELECTRODE/ELECTROLYTE INTERFACES; FIELD EMISSION SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; OXYGEN CONTAINING GROUPS; THERMOCHEMICAL TREATMENTS; VANADIUM REDOX FLOW BATTERIES;

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; FIELD EMISSION MICROSCOPES; GRAPHITE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOTOELECTRONS; POLYACRYLONITRILES; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SURFACES; VANADIUM; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

GRAPHITE ELECTRODES;

EID: 84878527423     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.04.038     Document Type: Article

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