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Recent Research on Energy Storage Materials: Properties and Applications

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Materials".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 January 2023) | Viewed by 4434

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Dr. Renata Wlodarczyk

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Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology, Czestochowa University of Technology, 42-201 Czestochowa, Poland
Interests: materials in energy; corrosion and degradation of materials; production of protective coatings; hydrogen technologies; nanomaterials in energy and environmental engineering
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Dear Colleagues,

The pursuit of climate neutrality, intelligent energy utilization systems, including renewable energy, is a challenge for energy storage systems. In this context, the selection of materials for energy storage is an extremely important aspect of the development of materials engineering. I invite all colleagues to present their achievements in the field of materials used in the construction of hydrogen fuel cells, modern material solutions in the construction of hydrogen tanks, material requirements, and the analysis of corrosion processes of materials intended for tanks. Hydrogen as an energy carrier can be bound chemically and physically. Energy storage is also a variety of elements made of components with specific properties. I invite colleagues who deal with the construction or are suppliers of components for electricity storage, such as batteries, inverters, electronics, housings, software, or provide installation, service and warranty services for end products and have interesting experiences in this field to share their research and results.

I look forward to your contributions.

Dr. Renata Wlodarczyk
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • hydrogen technologies
  • renewable energy sources
  • batteries
  • accumulators
  • hydrogen storage
  • electrolyzers

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Towards Replacing Titanium with Copper in the Bipolar Plates for Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis
by Andrea Kellenberger, Nicolae Vaszilcsin, Delia Duca, Mircea Laurentiu Dan, Narcis Duteanu, Svenja Stiber, Tobias Morawietz, Indro Biswas, Syed Asif Ansar, Pawel Gazdzicki, Florian J. Wirkert, Jeffrey Roth, Ulrich Rost, Michael Brodmann, Aldo Saul Gago and K. Andreas Friedrich
Materials 2022, 15(5), 1628; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/ma15051628 - 22 Feb 2022
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For proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) to become competitive, the cost of stack components, such as bipolar plates (BPP), needs to be reduced. This can be achieved by using coated low-cost materials, such as copper as alternative to titanium. Herein we report [...] Read more.
For proton exchange membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) to become competitive, the cost of stack components, such as bipolar plates (BPP), needs to be reduced. This can be achieved by using coated low-cost materials, such as copper as alternative to titanium. Herein we report on highly corrosion-resistant copper BPP coated with niobium. All investigated samples showed excellent corrosion resistance properties, with corrosion currents lower than 0.1 µA cm−2 in a simulated PEM electrolyzer environment at two different pH values. The physico-chemical properties of the Nb coatings are thoroughly characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and atomic force microscopy (AFM). A 30 µm thick Nb coating fully protects the Cu against corrosion due to the formation of a passive oxide layer on its surface, predominantly composed of Nb2O5. The thickness of the passive oxide layer determined by both EIS and XPS is in the range of 10 nm. The results reported here demonstrate the effectiveness of Nb for protecting Cu against corrosion, opening the possibility to use it for the manufacturing of BPP for PEMWE. The latter was confirmed by its successful implementation in a single cell PEMWE based on hydraulic compression technology. Full article
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