Electrospinning as a route to advanced carbon fibre materials for selected low-temperature electrochemical devices: A review

Y Wen, MDR Kok, JPV Tafoya, ABJ Sobrido… - Journal of Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrospinning has been proven as a highly versatile fabrication method for producing
nano-structured fibres with controllable morphology, of both the fibres themselves and the …

Recent advances in electrospun carbon fiber electrode for vanadium redox flow battery: properties, structures, and perspectives

D Cheng, Y Li, J Zhang, M Tian, B Wang, Z He, L Dai… - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
With the development and utilization of new energy, people's demand for large-scale energy
storage system has become increasingly urgent. Vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB), as …

Facile fabrication of nanofiber-and micro/nanosphere-coordinated PVDF membrane with ultrahigh permeability of viscous water-in-oil emulsions

J Wu, Y Ding, J Wang, T Li, H Lin, J Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
To achieve highly efficient purification of emulsified oil, a superhydrophobic, superoleophilic
and under-oil superhydrophobic poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF) nanofibrous membrane …

pH swing cycle for CO 2 capture electrochemically driven through proton-coupled electron transfer

S **, M Wu, RG Gordon, MJ Aziz… - Energy & Environmental …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We perform a thermodynamic analysis of the energetic cost of CO2 separation from flue gas
(0.1 bar CO2 (g)) and air (400 ppm CO2) using a pH swing created by electrochemical redox …

Permeability Matters When Reducing CO2 in an Electrochemical Flow Cell

Y Kim, EW Lees, CP Berlinguette - ACS Energy Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
The highest performing cathodes for CO2 electrolyzers are porous and exhibit high specific
surface areas that serve to increase the density of CO2 reduction catalyst sites. While porous …

Mass transfer in fibrous media with varying anisotropy for flow battery electrodes: Direct numerical simulations with 3D X-ray computed tomography

MDR Kok, R Jervis, TG Tranter, MA Sadeghi… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
A numerical method for calculating the mass transfer coefficient in fibrous media is
presented. First, pressure driven flow was modelled using the Lattice Boltzmann Method …

Electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride-based fibrous nanocomposite membranes reinforced by cellulose nanocrystals for efficient separation of water-in-oil emulsions

X Wang, W Cheng, D Wang, X Ni, G Han - Journal of Membrane Science, 2019 - Elsevier
A hydrophobic-oleophilic nanofibrous membrane was successfully produced by
incorporating cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) into polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) via an …

Hierarchical composite membrane with multiscale roughness structures for water-in-oil emulsion separation

D Wang, J Zang, Q Wang, W Cheng, G Han… - Applied Surface …, 2021 - Elsevier
A hierarchical structure composite membrane, which consisted of a polyvinylidene fluoride
(PVDF) nanofiber selective layer, a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) microspheres layer …

A tree-grapes-like PTFE fibrous membrane with super-hydrophobic and durable performance for oil/water separation

A Wang, X Li, T Hou, Y Lu, J Zhou, X Zhang… - Separation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, the membranes with durable and highly efficient separation performances for the
purification of oil/water emulsions have drawn wide concern due to the great potential …

Evaluation of electrospun fibrous mats targeted for use as flow battery electrodes

S Liu, M Kok, Y Kim, JL Barton… - Journal of The …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Electrospinning was used to create custom-made fibrous electrode materials for redox flow
batteries with targeted structural properties. The aim was to increase the available surface …