Electrodeposition energy conversion

Today, a large number of important technologies are based on or related to electrodes reactions. Besides the chlor-alkali and aluminium industries, energy conversion in batteries and fuel cells, electrodeposition, electrorefining, organic electrosynthesis, industrial and biomedical sensors, corrosion and corrosion protection, etc. are amogst those technologies. In many of them, kinetic, catalytic or specificity aspects of electrode processes are of enormous importance. 

A surface of p-InP was modified by the electrodeposition of submonolayer amounts of various metals and the photocurrent vs. potential behavior studied. The photocurrents observed at 0 V vs. NHE for various surface treatments are shown in the Table E.2. Calculate the maximum efficiency of energy conversion in each case and comment on the observed trend. The light source was an Xe lamp and incident light intensity was 50 mW cm-2. (Contractor)... 

Electrodeposition for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Devices... 

In Chapter 3, by Shaigan, electrodeposition for electrochemical conversion and storage devices is presented. This chapter discusses the latest developments on metal, metal oxide, and conductive polymer electrodeposition processes developed and studied for the applications in the fields of fuel cells, batteries, and capacitors. The importance of electrodeposited materials, which are used or may have the future potential applications in the energy conversion or storage, is clearly shown. 

The first solid-state dye-sensitized heterojunction of Ti02 and a semiconducting polymer was reported by Murakoshi and coworkers [19, 7]. They formed a solid-state heterojunction by photoelec-trochemical polymerization of pyrrole into a nanoporous Ti02 film, sensitized with Ru(dcbpy)2(SCN)2. Direct contact of polypyrrole and the FTO back contact was suppressed by electrodeposition of a thin Ti02 film before the adsorption of the dye onto the nanocrystalline Ti02 electrode. The doping density of the polymer was controlled electrochemically. Solar energy conversion efficiencies were somewhat... 

Electrodeposition and the characterization of alloys and composite materials Mechanistic aspects of lead electrodeposition Electrophoretic deposition of ceramic materials onto metal surfaces Metal oxides for energy conversion and storage Electrochemical aspects of chemical mechanical polishing... 

Anuar K, Zainal Z, Hussein MZ, Saravanan N, Haslina I (2002) Cathodic electrodeposition of CU2S thin film for solar energy conversion. Sol Energy Mater Sol Cells 73 351... 

The interest in the electrodeposition of II-VI semiconductors arose from the use of these compounds in solar cells and photoelectrochemical energy conversion and storage. The majority of the studies on II-VI semiconductors involve the use of CdSe, CdS, CdTe, ZnSe and ZnTe. 

EEA has also been used to follow type conversion in electrodeposited CdTe layers [147]. The change from n-type to p-type is evident in Eigure 1.44 as an inversion in the peaks located at the bandgap energy, and a more detailed analysis has shown that the bandgap of the CdTe decreases slightly as a consequence of diffusion of sulfur into the CdTe from the CdS layer to form CdTe], (S, where X = 0.05-0.07. 

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