The voltage between a standing tree and its surrounding soil is regarded as an innovative renewable energy source. This source is expected to provide a new power generation system for the low-power electrical equipment used in forestry. However, the voltage is weak, which has caused great difficulty in application. Consequently, the development of a method to increase the voltage is a key issue...

Flexible energy storage devices are highly demanded for various applications. Carbon cloth (CC) woven by carbon fibers (CFs) is typically used as electrode or current collector for flexible devices. The low surface area of CC and the presence of big gaps (ca. micro-size) between individual CFs lead to poor performance. Herein, we interconnect individual CFs through the in-situ exfoliated graphe...

The data reported in literature demonstrate that carbon paste electrodes (CPEs) are very suitable for a variety of applications and many works have thus been devoted in the development of new sensitive and selective electrode surfaces based on carbon paste as the electrode material of choice. The application of novel and promising carbonaceous materials, as electrode surfaces, is an issue of gr...

As electrode materials for analytical applications, carbon-based electrodes have been widely employed as detectors for high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), capillary electrophoresis (CE) and various biosensors. Carbon materials usually shows wider potential window compared with those of novel metals such as platinum and gold electrode. These electrodes are chemically stable, highly co...

Since the introduction to market by Sony in the early 1990s,[1] lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have become dominate power sources for consumer electronics and have been recognized as a critical enabling technology to make electric vehicles (EVs)/ hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) a success.[2] They are also being used to store carbon-free and renewable energy sources, such as solar, wind, and ocean...

The ever-increasing demand for rechargeable batteries with high energy density, abundant resources, and safety has pushed the development of various battery technologies based on cation, anion, or dual-ion transfer. use halogen storage electrode materials led to new concept systems such as halide-ion (HIB) (DIB). This review highlights recent progress these materials, including metal (oxy)halid...