The ion-intercalation materials used in high-energy batteries such as lithium-ion undergo large composition changes–which correlate to high storage capacity—but which also induce structural changes and stresses that can cause performance metrics such as power, achievable storage capacity, and life to degrade. “Electrochemical shock”–the electrochemical cyclinginduced fracture of materials–contr...

Title of Document: EVALUATION AND MODELING OF ELECTROCHEMICAL MIGRATION ON PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS Xiaofei He, PhD, 2014 Directed by: George Dieter Chair Professor Michael G. Pecht, Assistant Research Scientist Michael H. Azarian, Department of Mechanical Engineering Electrochemical migration (ECM) is the growth of conductive metal filaments on a printed circuit board (PCB) through an electrolyt...

A bifunctional molecular linker containing both aryl diazonium and trioxolane groups was synthesised and its ability to sequentially functionalise glassy carbon and covalently immobilise heme investigated. Functionalisation was demonstrated by electrochemical techniques.

High throughput electrochemical techniques are widely applied in material discovery and optimization. For many applications, the most desirable electrochemical characterization requires a three-electrode cell under potentiostat control. In high throughput screening, a material library is explored by either employing an array of such cells, or rastering a single cell over the library. To attain ...

The direct CO2 electrochemical reduction on model platinum single crystal electrodes Pt(hkl) is studied in [C2mim(+)][NTf2(-)], a suitable room temperature ionic liquid (RTIL) medium due to its moderate viscosity, high CO2 solubility and conductivity. Single crystal electrodes represent the most convenient type of surface structured electrodes for studying the impact of RTIL ion adsorption on r...

The performance of the solid acid fuel cell by CsH2PO4 electrolyte was analyzed using the present model of the electrochemical reaction and transport phenomena, which are fully coupled with the governing equations. Development of such a model requires creating the three-dimensional geometry and its mesh grid, discretization of momentum, mass and electric charge balance equation and solving the ...

Graphite-based electrodes (graphite, graphene, and nanotubes) are used widely in electrochemistry, and there is a long-standing view that graphite step edges are needed to catalyze many reactions, with the basal surface considered to be inert. In the present work, this model was tested directly for the first time using scanning electrochemical cell microscopy reactive patterning and shown to be...