Functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes with enhanced electrocatalytic activity for Br- / Br3- redox reactions in vanadium bromide redox flow batteries

Carbon

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 464-471

  Rui, Xianhong ^a,b   Parasuraman, Aishwarya ^b   Liu, Weiling ^a   Sim, Dao Hao ^a   Hng, Huey Hoon ^a   Yan, Qingyu ^a,c   Lim, Tuti Mariana ^b,d   Skyllas Kazacos, Maria ^e  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL KINETICS; ELECTRON TRANSFER PROCESS; OXYGEN CONTAINING GROUPS; OXYGEN FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; REDOX FLOW BATTERIES; SINGE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE;

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCATALYSTS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GRAPHITE; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; OXYGEN; PHOTOELECTRONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VANADIUM; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

REDOX REACTIONS;

EID: 84883600531     PISSN: 00086223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.07.099     Document Type: Article

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