Advanced Materials for Electrocatalysis and Energy Storage

Materials for Energy Storage and Efficiency

International customers, contact your local Sigma-Aldrich office (sigma-aldrich.com/worldwide-offices). Introduction Welcome to the fourth issue of Material Matters™ for 2013 focusing on Materials for Energy Storage and Efficiency. Energy is vital for economic growth. Since the industrial revolution, fossil fuels have served as the major energy source powering the growth of our economy and soci...

Multi-functional Energy Storage Materials

Hydrogen is recognized as a potential and extremely interesting energy carrier, which can facilitate efficient utilization of unevenly distributed renewable energy. Furthermore, hydrogen has an extremely interesting chemistry and form compounds with most elements in the periodic table and with a variety of different types of bonds. Metal hydrides has recently become very interesting as new clas...

Polyimides: promising energy-storage materials.

Based on this redox mechanism, we developed a series of polyamides with different structures and investigated their electrochemical activity as cathode materials for rechargeable lithium batteries. The results show that the polymer framework endows these samples with excellent cycling stability. Additionally, their capacity and rate capability are also satisfactory. The five polyimides were obt...

Electrocatalysis using porous nanostructured materials.

The performance of electrochemical reactions depends strongly on the morphology and structure of the employed catalytic electrodes. Nanostructuring of the electrode surface represents a powerful tool to increase the electrochemically active surface area of the electrodes. Moreover, it can also facilitate faster diffusive mass transport inside three-dimensional electrodes. This minireview descri...

Most Young Scholars Grant (Einstein Program):Advanced Functional Materials for High- Capacity Electrochemical Energy Storage