Issue 30, 2013
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RSC Advances

Highly electrocatalytic flexible nanofiber for improved vanadium-based redox flow battery cathode electrodes†

Cristina Flox,*a   Cristian Fàbrega,a   Teresa Andreu,a   Alex Morata,a   Marcel Skoumal,a   Javier Rubio-Garciaa  and  Juan Ramón Moranteab  

* Corresponding authors

a Departament of Advanced Materials for Energy, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), c/Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1, 2nd floor, 08930 Sant Adrià del Besòs, Spain
E-mail: cflox@irec.cat
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b Departament d'Electrònica, Universitat de Barcelona, c/Martí i Franquès 1, 08028 Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

A flexible nanofiber-based electrode material is proposed as cathode in a vanadium-based flow battery (VRFB), allowing the design of innovative VRFB configuration geometries. Its estimated electrochemical surface area is 350 cm2 cm−3, doubling that of commercial PAN-felt.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3RA40463C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
25 Jan 2013
Accepted
30 May 2013
First published
31 May 2013

RSC Adv., 2013,3, 12056-12059

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Highly electrocatalytic flexible nanofiber for improved vanadium-based redox flow battery cathode electrodes

C. Flox, C. Fàbrega, T. Andreu, A. Morata, M. Skoumal, J. Rubio-Garcia and J. R. Morante, RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 12056 DOI: 10.1039/C3RA40463C

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