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Electrolyte effects and stability of Zn/Li dual-ion batteries with water-in-salt electrolytes

Nikolaos Kakavas, Michael Graetzel, Ladislav Kavan, Felix Thomas Eickemeyer, Jiaqi Xu, Wenzhe Niu

Aqueous zinc-ion batteries have emerged as promising candidates for safe and cost-effective energy storage, yet their performance remains constrained by electrode stability and electrolyte composition. In this study, we investigate the electrochemical beha ...

2025

A review of thermal management of batteries with a focus on immersion cooling

Weiyu Tang

The performance, cycle life and safety of batteries are strongly influenced by temperature. However, fast charging and discharging can significantly increase heat generation, causing the battery temperature to rise rapidly. Therefore, it is essential to em ...

2025

Niobium oxide anode materials with suppressed activity toward hydrogen evolution reaction for aqueous batteries

Corsin Battaglia

The hydrogen evolution reaction is the most prominent parasitic reaction for aqueous battery chemistries. Although water-in-salt electrolytes show greatly enhanced electrochemical stability, increasing the voltage of aqueous batteries further by lowering t ...

ELSEVIER2024

Helium metastable density determination in the COST reference source by absolutely calibrated optical emission spectroscopy

Brayden Graham Myers

Helium metastable densities in the COST Reference Microplasma Jet are estimated for a variety of He/N2 admixtures and dissipated powers by applying a collisional-radiative model to absolutely calibrated optical emission spectroscopy measurements. This is a ...

AIP Publishing2024

Field-enhanced CO electroreduction in membrane electrolyzers at a dehydrated interface

Xile Hu, Wenhao Ren, Wenchao Ma, Nanjun Chen, Miyeon Chang

Zero-gap membrane electrode assembly (MEA) CO electrolyzer stands as a promising technology for circular carbon economy. However, current CO electrolyzers are energetically inefficient when operating at ampere-level current densities. Here, by analyzing th ...

2024

Microstructural and electrical characterization of high temperature passivating contacts for silicon solar cells

Sofia Libraro

Recombination at metal/semiconductor interfaces represents the main limitation in mainstream c-Si solar cells, primarily based on the passivated emitter and rear cell (PERC) concept. Full-area passivating contacts based on SiOx/poly-Si stacks are a candida ...

EPFL2024

Additive Fabrication of Microsupercapacitors

Amin Hodaei

Microsupercapacitors (with footprints from -mm up to -cm scale) have attracted attention for use as electrochemical energy storage devices to power wearables, IoT, and other small microsystems due to their high power density, excellent charge/discharge rev ...

EPFL2023

Flexible and Binder-Free Iron Phosphide Electrodes Using a Three-Dimensional Support for High Hydrogen Productivity

Maria Isabel Diez Garcia

In this work, an inexpensive and reliable microstructured electrode for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is developed. This cathode is made of Earth-abundant elements consisting of iron phosphide as an electrocatalyst and carbon felt (CF) as a flexibl ...

2023

Strategies for energy-efficient frontal polymerisation processing and microstructural evaluation of fibre reinforced composites

Jacobus Gerardus Rudolph Staal

Liquid composite moulding methods are widely applied for manufacturing of fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composites and consist of two main stages: impregnation of fibrous reinforcements by a liquid monomer resin and curing of this resin. This thesis work ...

EPFL2023

Kinetic Network Modeling of the Catalytic Upgrading of Biomass's Acetate Fraction to Aromatics

Jeremy Luterbacher, Jher Hau Yeap, Bartosz Rozmyslowicz

The acetate fraction is the fourth most abundant fraction by weight in many plant species and can be easily extracted as acetic acid in high yields. We have previously shown that acetic acid obtained from steam pretreated beech wood could be upgraded in a ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

In-vivo investigation of electrochemical behavior of Ti and CoCrMo alloy in human synovial fluids

Yueyue Bao

With the development of modern medical techniques, the application of orthopedic implants has been continually increasing in recent years. Passive materials, such as Ti and its alloys as well as CoCrMo alloys, are widely used in artificial joints due to th ...

EPFL2023

Digital-Image-Correlation for Simulating Cyclic Local Buckling in Steel Beams

Dimitrios Lignos, Albano António De Abreu E Presa De Castro E Sousa, Selimcan Ozden

Nonlinear continuum finite element (CFE) analyses rely on accurate multiaxial constitutive law formulations along with reliable imperfection patterns for simulating nonlinear geometric instabilities in steel members under mechanical loading. Validations of ...

Wiley2023