Lithium Electrochemical Tuning for Electrocatalysis

Electrochemical tuning of layered lithium transition metal oxides for improvement of oxygen evolution reaction.

Searching for low-cost and efficient catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction has been actively pursued owing to its importance in clean energy generation and storage. While developing new catalysts is important, tuning the electronic structure of existing catalysts over a wide electrochemical potential range can also offer a new direction. Here we demonstrate a method for electrochemical li...

Direct tuning of electrical properties in nano-structured Bi2Se0.3Te2.7 by reversible electrochemical lithium reactions.

Lithium intercalation and de-intercalation processes have been used to fabricate bulk Bi(2)Se(0.3)Te(2.7) with internal nanostructures. The doped Li content can be precisely controlled through this method. It provides a chance to directly optimize electrical properties when preparing nano-structured materials, leading to the optimum carrier concentration for improved thermoelectric figure of me...

Alkaline Methanol Fuel Cell Electrocatalysis Using a Pressurized Electrochemical Cell

Electrochemical Characterization of Low-Cost Lithium-Iron Orthosilicate Samples as Cathode Materials of Lithium-Ion Battery

Lithium-iron-orthosilicate is one of the most promising cathode materials for Li-ion batteries due to its safety, environmental brightness and potentially low cost. In order to produce a low cost cathode material, Li2FeSiO4/C samples are synthesized via sol-gel (SG; one sample) and solid state (SS; two samples with different carbon content), starting from Fe (III) in the raw materials (lo...

Electrochemical Evaluation of PbO Nanoparticles as Anode for Lithium Ion Batteries (Technical Note)

PbO nanoparticles were synthesized using hydrothermal process. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used in order to investigate of PbO powders. X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern confirmed β-PbO formation during this process. The crystallite size of the powders was calculated using Scherrer formula about 74.6 nm. Electrochemical evaluation of the PbO nanoparticles as anode for Li-ion batteries ...