Electrochemical capacitor is the most promising energy-storage device that can meet the demands of high-power supply and long cycle life; however, low-energy density and highfabrication cost limit its further development. Researchers have paid more attention to the development of electrode material in the past, and very few people attach importance to the research of the electrolyte, especially...

A recently published model for the excess Gibbs energy of aqueous solutions containing mixed electrolytes (Lu and Maurer, 1993) is extended from 298 K to temperatures up to 573 K. The extension is achieved by introducing a universal relation for the influence of temperature on some model parameters. Although parameters are still ion specific, the influence of temperature on those parameters is ...

A comprehensive model has been developed for calculating self-diffusion coefficients in mixedsolvent electrolyte solutions. The model includes methods for calculating the self-diffusion coefficients of ions and neutral species at infinite dilution and for predicting the effect of finite concentrations of electrolytes. For limiting diffusivities, a mixing rule has been developed for predicting t...

Electrochemical polymerization of aniline is one of the most promising methods to prepare polyaniline (PANI) materials. However, during this process, the electrolyte solution must be replaced after electropolymerization of a certain time because of the generation and the accumulation of the by-products, which have significant effects on the morphology, purity and properties of PANI products. Tr...

We use cyclic charge-discharge experiments to evaluate the capacity retention rates of two quinone-bromide flow batteries (QBFBs). These aqueous QBFBs use a negative electrolyte containing either anthraquinone-2,7-disulfonic acid (AQDS) or anthraquinone-2-sulfonic acid (AQS) dissolved in sulfuric acid, and a positive electrolyte containing bromine and hydrobromic acid. We find that the AQS cell...

Redox electrolytes can provide significant enhancement of capacitance for supercapacitors. However, more important promotion comes from the synergetic effect and matching between the electrode and electrolyte. Herein, we report a novel electrochemical system consisted of a polyanilline/carbon nanotube composite redox electrode and a hydroquinone (HQ) redox electrolyte, which exhibits a specific...

Hybrid supercapacitors, as emerging energy storage devices, have gained much attention in recent years due to their high density, fast charge/discharge and long cyclabilities. Among the wide range of systems covered by this topic, low cost, environmental friendliness power provide MnO2 with great characteristics be a competitive candidate. The present work reports hybrid aqueous supercapacitor ...

Accurate modeling of thermodynamic properties for CO2 absorption in aqueous alkanolamine solutions is essential for the simulation and design of such CO2 capture processes. In this study, we use the Electrolyte Nonrandom Two-Liquid activity coefficient model to develop a rigorous and thermodynamically consistent representation for the MDEA-H2O-CO2 system. The vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE), hea...

We produced gaseous hydrated clusters of sulfate and oxalate anions [SO4(2-)-(H2O)n and C2O4(2-)(H2O)n, where n = 4 to 40]. Photoelectron spectra of these clusters revealed that the solute dianions were in the center of the water cluster, (H2O)n. For small clusters, these spectra were characteristic of the respective solutes, but beyond the first solvation shell (n approximately 12), features i...

A fabrication technique is developed for the preparation of metal oxide/CNT composites. An essential feature of the technique lies in the use of non-aqueous electrolyte in place of the usual aqueous electrolyte, which ensures welldispersed CNTs without surfactants. After a “seed” is formed by electroplating on the anode, the seed is simply pulled up at a certain speed to grow one-dimensional CN...