Electroless nickel plating baths have to be discarded when levels of phosphites build up and interfere with the plating process. OWMC funded research conducted at ORTECH International to determine whether phosphites could be removed from plating bath solution. The first attempt to do this by adsorption on flyash was unsuccessful. However, the use of calcium ion to precipitate calcium phosphite ...

Fast charging is one of the key requirements for next-generation lithium-ion batteries, however, diffusion rates typical electrode materials are limited. Nanosizing active material a common strategy to increase effective transport rate, but it also decreases volumetric energy/power density and stability battery. In this work, nickel niobate NiNb2O6 demonstrated first time as new intrinsic high-...

A series of carbazole based ligands with different lengths were assembled with nickel ions to construct metal-organic macrocycles. High-resolution mass spectrometry and ion mobility-mass spectrometry have been used to analyse the resulting MnLn assembly coexisting in solution. Combining with the structural analysis of their solid confirmation, it was revealed that the diversity of the metal-org...

Adsorption of Nickel(II) ion onto Activated Carbon prepared from Delonix regia pods activated with Zinc chloride (DRZAC) under various experimental conditions were studied. Batch mode adsorption experiments were conducted. The characteristics of the DRZAC were determined by SEM, XRD, FTIR, BET analysis and pHZPC. The maximum removal efficiency of Ni(II) ion is 85% at pH 6. Under the chosen cond...

Thin films of nickel ferrocyanide are grown at nickel electrode surfaces by electrochemical oxidative treatment. This report describes some new microgravimetric, quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) experiments using isotopically substituted solvents which detail the transport of solvent during the redox process of the Fe sites. The results show that solvent incorporation accompanies cesium ion ex...

The safety of lithium-ion battery (LIB) becomes increasingly critical as the specific energy and cell capacity rapidly increase. Based on the modified current collector technique recently developed for nickel–cobalt– manganese active materials, here we investigate high-energy LIBs based on functional current collectors (FCC). Two high-voltage active materials were tested in our experiments: lit...