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Enhanced thermo-electrochemical power using carbon nanotube additives in ionic liquid redox electrolytes
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posted on 2014-12-28, 00:00 authored by P F Salazar, S T Stephens, A H Kazim, Jenny PringleJenny Pringle, B A ColaWaste heat recovery with thermo-electrochemical cells is limited by their low power and conversion efficiencies. Here we explore ionic liquid electrolytes mixed with multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) as alternative electrolytes for thermo-electrochemical cells. The results show that, upon addition of MWCNTs, the combination of interfacial polarization and ion pair dissociation reduces mass transfer resistances and enhances the power of thermo-electrochemical cells at low weight percentage of MWCNTs by up to 30%. This occurs in spite of reduced open circuit voltage due to percolated networks.
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Journal of materials chemistry aVolume
2Issue
48Pagination
20676 - 20682Publisher
Royal Society of ChemistryLocation
Cambridge, EnglandPublisher DOI
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2050-7488eISSN
2050-7496Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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