Tag Archive: energy storage systems

May 12

Progress in Electrolytes for Rechargeable Aluminium Batteries

Review—Progress in Electrolytes for Rechargeable Aluminium Batteries Oi Man Leung1, Theresa Schoetz2, Themis Prodromakis1 and Carlos Ponce de Leon3 Published 12 May 2021 • © 2021 The Author(s). Published on behalf of The Electrochemical Society by IOP Publishing Limited Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Volume 168, Number 5 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1945-7111/abfb36/meta  Abstract The growing demand for safe, sustainable and energy-dense energy storage devices has spurred …

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Aug 21

Understanding the charge storage mechanism of conductive polymers as hybrid battery-capacitor materials in ionic liquids by in situ atomic force microscopy and electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance studies

research Article Theresa Schoetz, Mario Kurniawan,  Michael Stich,  Ralf Peipmann, Igor Efimov, Adriana Ispas, Andreas Bund,  Carlos Ponce de Leon and Mikito Uedad First published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A for Royal Society of Chemistry: 21st August 2018 DOI: 10.1039/c8ta06757k Safe and sustainable energy storage systems with the ability to perform efficiently during large …

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Apr 19

Electro-polymerisation of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene on reticulated vitreous carbon in imidazolium-based chloroaluminate ionic liquid as energy storage material

research article T.Schoetz C.Ponce de Leon A.Bund M.Ueda First published in Electrochemistry Communications Volume 89, April 2018, Pages 52-56 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elecom.2018.02.018 Highlights Electro-polymerisation of porous granular PEDOT films on reticulated vitreous carbon Polymerisation of stable micro/nano-structured PEDOT films by cyclic voltammetry. Doping/de-doping characterisation of the PEDOT films for energy storage. The films achieved 94% coulombic efficiency …

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Feb 19

Electro-polymerisation and characterisation of PEDOT in Lewis basic, neutral and acidic EMImCl-AlCl3 ionic liquid

research Article T.SchoetzaC.Ponce de LeonaA.BundbM.Ueda First published in Electrochimica Acta Volume 263, 10 February 2018, Pages 176-183 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2018.01.033Get rights and content Abstract This work studied the electro-polymerisation of 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) and its electrochemical behavior in Lewis acidic, neutral and basic chloroaluminate ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride aluminum chloride (EMImCl-AlCl3) by cyclic voltammetry. It was found that the electro-polymerisation on vitreous carbon only occurs in Lewis …

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Nov 19

State of the art of rechargeable aluminium batteries in non-aqueous systems: A perspective

research Article Schoetz, T., Ponce De Leon, C., Ueda, M. and Bund, A. (2017)  Fist published: Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 164 (14), A3499-A3502. (doi:10.1149/2.0311714jes). November 2017 Abstract The main challenges to implement sustainable energy storage technologies are the utilisation of earth-abundant recyclable materials, low costs, safe cell reactions and high performance, all in a single system.

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Nov 14

Perspective—State of the Art of Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries in Non-Aqueous Systems

Perspective—State of the Art of Rechargeable Aluminum Batteries in Non-Aqueous Systems T. Schoetz5,1, C. Ponce de Leon1, M. Ueda4,2 and A. Bund4,3 Published 14 November 2017 Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Volume 164, Number 14 https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0311714jes Abstract The main challenges to implement sustainable energy storage technologies are the utilization of earth-abundant recyclable materials, low costs, safe cell reactions and high performance, …

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Jun 17

Preparation and characterization of a rechargeable battery based on poly-(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and aluminum in ionic liquids

Research Article T. Schoetz, M. Ueda, A. Bund & C. Ponce de Leon First published in Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry volume 21, pages 3237–3246( 17 June 2017) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10008-017-3658-4 Abstract This paper presents a feasibility study of a non-aqueous rechargeable battery based on aluminum and poly-(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) conductive polymer in a chloroaluminate ionic liquid.

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