1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910566697803321

Titolo

Atomistic simulations of glasses : fundamentals and applications / / edited by Jincheng Du and Alastair N. Cormack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley-American Ceramic Society, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-118-94023-7

1-118-93907-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (563 pages)

Disciplina

620.144

Soggetti

Molecules

Chemical structure

Glass - Analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910337874303321

Autore

Kúš Peter

Titolo

Thin-Film Catalysts for Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers and Unitized Regenerative Fuel Cells / / by Peter Kúš

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-20859-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (115 pages)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

621.3126

621.312429

Soggetti

Surfaces (Physics)

Interfaces (Physical sciences)

Thin films

Energy storage

Electrochemistry

Catalysis

Energy consumption

Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films

Energy Storage

Energy Efficiency

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Experimental -- Results -- Summary and conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This work revolves around the hydrogen economy and energy-storage electrochemical systems. More specifically, it investigates the possibility of using magnetron sputtering for deposition of efficient thin-film anode catalysts with low noble metal content for proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers (PEM-WEs) and unitized regenerative fuel cells (PEM-URFCs). The motivation for this research derives from the urgent need to minimize the price of such electrochemical devices should they enter the mass production. Numerous experiments were carried out, correlating the actual in-cell



performance with the varying position of thin-film catalyst within the membrane electrode assembly, with the composition of high-surface support sublayer and with the chemical structure of the catalyst itself. The wide arsenal of analytical methods ranging from electrochemical impedance spectroscopy through electrochemical atomic force microscopy to photoelectron spectroscopy allowed the description of the complex phenomena behind different obtained efficiencies. Systematic optimizations led to the design of a novel PEM-WE anode thin-film iridium catalyst which performs similarly to the standard counterparts despite using just a fraction of their noble metal content. Moreover, the layer-by-layer approach resulted in the design of a Ir/TiC/Pt bi-functional anode for PEM-URFC which is able to operate in both the fuel cell and electrolyzer regime and thus helps to cut the cost of the whole conversion system even further.