V2O5 based materials are attractive cathode alternatives due to the many oxidation state switches of vanadium bringing about a high theoretical specific capacity. However, significant capacity losses are eminent for crystalline V2O5 phases related to the irreversible phase transformations and/or vanadium dissolution starting from the first discharge cycle. These problems can be circumvented if ...

Thermodynamics of reactions of vanadium oxide clusters with SO2 are studied at the BPW91/LANL2DZ level of theory. BPW91/LANL2DZ is insufficient to properly describe relative V-O and S-O bond strengths of vanadium and sulfur oxides. Calibration of theoretical results with experimental data is necessary to compute reliable enthalpy changes for reactions between VxOy and SO2. Theoretical results i...

Boosted by the rapid advances of science and technology in the field of energy materials, Li-ion batteries have achieved significant progress in energy storage performance since their commercial debut in 1991. The development of nanostructured electrode material is regarded as one of the key potentials for the further advancement in Li-ion batteries. This feature article summarizes our recent e...

Keywords---Iron, Copper, Cadmium, Chromium, Mercury, Nickel, Vanadium, Lead, Zinc, Free radicals, Oxidative stress, Redox cycling, Glutathione depletion, Lipid peroxidation, DNA damage, Stress proteins

The ion exchange resin Amberlite 958 was used to investigate its behaviour on the removal of hazardous vanadium(V) from aqueous media. This investigation carried out under various hydrodynamic conditions and chemical conditions, such as variation stirring speed, pH solution, dosage, initial in temperature. Vanadium(V) uptake onto highly dependent thus, speciation this phase; process had an endo...

A series of supported V2O5/Al2O3 catalysts were synthesized by incipient wetness impregnation with vanadium isopropoxide in isopropanol solutions and subsequent calcination. The vanadium surface density was varied from 0.3 to 11.4 V atoms/nm2 spanning the sub-monolayer and above-monolayer regions. The resulting supported vanadium oxide catalysts were physically characterized with in situ Raman ...

A three dimensional vanadium pentoxide/reduced graphene oxide/carbon nanotube (3D V2O5/RGO/CNT) composite is synthesized by microwave-assisted hydrothermal method. The combination of 2D RGO and 1D CNT establishes continuous 3D conductive network, and most notably, the 1D CNT is designed to form hierarchically porous structure by penetrating into V2O5 microsphere assembly constituted of numerous...

In this paper we present the fluorescence decay profiles of vanadium and titanium doped gallium lanthanum sulphide (GLS) glass at various doping concentrations between 0.01 and 1% (molar). We demonstrate that below a critical doping concentration the fluorescence decay profile can be fitted with the stretched exponential function: exp[-(t/τ)], where τ is the fluorescence lifetime and β is the s...

A solvent-extraction spectrophotometric technique is proposed as a new method for determination of trace quantities of vanadium. Sodium salt of 2-mercapto-pyridine-N-oxide (thione) forms a complex with vanadium instantaneously. The purple 1:2 complex is formed of pH 2.3, easily extracted in chloroform and shows strong absorbance at 500 nm. The extracted complex is found to obey Beer's law i...

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have received intensive attentions owing to the abundant and inexpensive sodium (Na) resource. Layered vanadium oxides are featured with various valence states and corresponding compounds, and through multi-electron reaction they are capable to deliver high Na storage capacity. The rational construction of unique structures is verified to improve their Na storage pro...