Title: Development and Characterization of High-Strain Electrodes Remi Delille, Master of Science, 2006 Directed By: Associate Professor/Advisor, Dr. Elisabeth Smela This thesis, composed of three journal articles, presents a compliant electrode material, based on a novel fabrication procedure. The compliant electrodes consisted of a photopatternable, urethane matrix embedded with platinum nano...

The electrochemical activity of graphene is of fundamental importance to applications from energy storage to sensing, but has proved difficult to unambiguously determine due to the challenges innate to fabricating well defined graphene electrodes free from contamination. Here, we report the electrochemical activity of chemical vapour deposition (CVD) graphene grown on copper foil without furthe...

Oxidation of formaldehyde (HCHO) is very important, owing to its use in fuel cells. Modification of electrodes surfaces is an excellent way to decrease the overpotentials as well as to increase the current density of the voltammetric response.pt as most efficient metal catalyst can easily be poisoned by product of oxidation and also it has high cost. In this work an efficient and low cost elect...

In this work, modification of carbon paste electrode surface with poly (2, 5-Dimethyl aniline) (P-2,5-DMA) by using electrochemical polymerization was described. Then, transition metal ions of Ni(II) were incorporated into the polymer film by two ways. At first way, the polymeric modified electrode was immersed in 0.2 M NiSO4 solutions and the second way was carried out by electrodeposition of ...

Nitrogen is added to porous carbon, in both the bulk network as heteroatoms and coatedon the surface of the pores, to increase the capacitance of electrodes for supercapacitor applications. Surface modification increases the amount of nitrogen by four times when compared to unmodified carbon that only contains nitrogen in the bulk. Pyrolysis of themodified carbon at a lower temperature also ret...

This paper describes the fabrication of novel modified polyethylene (PE) membranes using plasma technology to create high-performance and cost-effective separator membranes for practical applications in lithium-ion polymer batteries. The modified PE membrane via plasma modification process plays a critical role in improving wettability and electrolyte retention, interfacial adhesion between sep...

• The kinetics of CH4 steam reforming and partial oxidation are determined by the oxidation rate of CHx adsorbed species • The modification of the Ni/YSZ and Ni/GDC with Au and/or Au-Mo results in differentiated structures of atomically dispersed Au and/or Au-Mo at the surface and the bulk of the Ni particles. • At lean S/C NiAu/YSZ selectively oxidizes electrochemically the catalytically produ...

3.6.1. Polishing and Cleaning 2663 3.6.2. Vacuum and Heat Treatments 2664 3.6.3. Carbon Electrode Activation 2665 3.7. Summary and Generalizations 2666 4. Advanced Carbon Electrode Materials 2666 4.1. Microfabricated Carbon Thin Films 2666 4.2. Boron-Doped Diamond for Electrochemistry 2668 4.3. Fibers and Nanotubes 2669 4.4. Carbon Composite Electrodes 2674 5. Carbon Surface Modification 2675 5...

Graphene has shown the world its fascinating properties, including high specific surface area, conductivity, and extraordinary mechanical which enable graphene to be a competent candidate for electrode materials. However, some challenges remain in real applications of graphene-based electrodes, such as continuous preparation fibers with highly ordered sheets well strong interlayer interactions....