Treatment of graphite felt by modified Hummers method for the positive electrode of vanadium redox flow battery

Electrochimica Acta

Volumn 138, Issue , 2014, Pages 264-269

  Wu, Xiaoxin ^a   Xu, Hongfeng ^a   Shen, Yang ^a   Xu, Pengcheng ^a   Lu, Lu ^a   Fu, Jie ^a   Zhao, Hong ^a  

^a DALIAN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Graphite felt; Modified Hummers method; Oxygenic functional groups; Vanadium redox flow battery

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; REDOX REACTIONS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SECONDARY BATTERIES; VANADIUM;

ALL VANADIUM REDOX FLOW BATTERY; ELECTROCATALYTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ACTIVITIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; GRAPHITE FELTS; HUMMERS METHOD; OPERATION EFFICIENCIES; VANADIUM REDOX FLOW BATTERIES;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84904336244     PISSN: 00134686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2014.06.124     Document Type: Article

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