Taurine Electrografting onto Porous Electrodes Improves Redox Flow Battery Performance
Emre Burak Boz, Pierre Boillat, Antoni Forner‐Cuenca
Abstract
reduction reaction kinetics as the electrochemical surface area normalized current densities are 2-fold and 4-fold higher than oxidized and untreated glassy carbon surfaces, respectively. Improved mass transfer of taurine-treated electrodes is attributed to their superior wettability, as revealed by operando neutron radiography within a flow cell setup. Through demonstrating promising results for aqueous systems with the model molecule taurine, this work aims to bring forth electrografting as a facile technique to tailor electrode surfaces for other RFB chemistries and electrochemical technologies.
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Materials scienceElectrodeChemical engineeringElectrochemistryDielectric spectroscopySurface modificationElectrolyteRedoxPolyanilineCyclic voltammetryNanotechnologyComposite materialPolymerChemistryEngineeringMetallurgyPhysical chemistryPolymerizationAdvanced battery technologies researchElectrocatalysts for Energy ConversionSupercapacitor Materials and Fabrication