Composite electrochemical coatings (CECs) on the basis of nickel modified with multilayer graphene oxide (GO) were deposited from a sulfate–chloride electrolyte in pulsed electrolysis mode. The microstructure these CECs was studied by X-ray phase analysis and scanning electron microscopy. It found that microhardness nickel–GO increases approximately 1.40 times compared to pure nickel. corrosion...

Improving the dynamic security and stability of a shipboard power system was studied by distributing energy storage elements. The notional ship power system under study has an AC network consisting of four alternators (two main and two auxiliary turbine generators), a DC microgrid involving distributed renewable energy generation and hybrid battery/super capacitor (SC) energy storage system. In...

Spectrally-selective solar absorbers harvest solar energy in the form of heat. Solar absorbers using cermet-based coatings demonstrate a high absorptance of the solar spectrum and a low emittance in the infrared (IR) regime. Extensive work has been done to optimize cermet-based solar absorbers to achieve high performance by exploring different cermet (ceramic-metal composite) materials and film...

The use of costly and rare metals such as indium and gallium in Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) based solar cells has motivated research into the use of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) as a suitable replacement due to its non-toxicity, abundance of compositional elements and excellent optical properties (1.5 eV direct band gap and absorption coefficient of ~10(4) cm(-1)). In this study, we demonstrate a one-step pulsed h...

Ni scaffolded mesostructured 3D Fe2O3 electrodes were fabricated by colloidal templating and pulsed electrodeposition. The scaffold provided short pathways for both lithium ions and electrons in the active phase, enabling fast kinetics and thus a high power density. The scaffold also resulted in a reduced voltage hysteresis. The electrode showed a reversible capacity of ∼1000 mAh g−1 at 0.2 A g...

We report a new method for electrodeposition of device-quality metal chalcogenide semiconductor thin films and nanostructures from a single, highly tuneable, non-aqueous electrolyte. This method opens up the prospect of electrochemical preparation of a wide range of functional semiconducting metal chalcogenide alloys that have applications in various nano-technology areas, ranging from the elec...