2016-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2016 Volume 10: Battery, Recycling, Environmental, Mining
| Editors: | Kongoli F, Kumar V, Aifantis K, Pagnanelli F |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2016 |
| Pages: | 220 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-987820-54-6 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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A Clean Future by Electron: Critical Materials for Electrochemical Energy Systems
Yingjun Liu1; Vasant Kumar1;1UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain);
Type of Paper: Regular
Id Paper: 486
Topic: 14
Abstract:
Clean energy technologies are significantly hindered by limitations in materials science. From low activity to poor stability, and from low efficiency to high cost, the current materials are not able to cope with the challenges of clean energy technologies. However, recent advances in the materials preparation involving electrochemical process are providing hope for a better, cleaner energy generation. The present paper reviews the materials development conducted in our group in the past two years and highlights the role of electrochemical processes in a wide range of clean technologies, including enhancing the activity of cathodes in solid oxide fuel cell, increasing the stability of superalloy operating at high temperature, reducing the defect-induced failure in metal electrode in corrosive environment, and electrochemical preparation of reflective layer to produce high efficiency solar cells. The better understanding of electrochemical process plays a significant role to achieve the most challenging energy generation systems where the activity and efficiency maintains high with enhanced stability.