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Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid-State Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid-State Science 2016 Meeting Abstracts 2016-02 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 2 - 7 October 2016 Table of Contents and Index ISBN: 978-1-5108-3342-5 6/6 Printed from e-media with permission by: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 Some format issues inherent in the e-media version may also appear in this print version. Some papers in this book may refer to web based images from the electronic version of these proceedings that are not available in this print edition. To view images go to: http://ma.ecsdl.org/site/archive/MA2016-02.xhtml Copyright© (2016) by The Electrochemical Society All rights reserved. Printed by Curran Associates, Inc. (2017) For permission requests, please contact The Electrochemical Society at the address below. The Electrochemical Society 65 South Main Street, Building D Pennington, New Jersey 08534-2839 USA Phone: 1.609.737.1902 Fax: 1.609.737.2743 [email protected] Additional copies of this publication are available from: Curran Associates, Inc. 57 Morehouse Lane Red Hook, NY 12571 USA Phone: 845-758-0400 Fax: 845-758-2633 Email: [email protected] Web: www.proceedings.com Table of Contents A01-Batteries and Energy Technology Joint General Session 1Evolution of Fe-Antisite Defects in Standard Hydrothermal LiFePO4 Synthesis and Their Accelerated Removal with Ca2+ Andrea Paolella, George P. Demopoulos, Karim Zaghib 2Layered and Tunneled Manganese Oxides As Battery Cathode Materials - the Role of Electrochemically Active and Inert Metal Cations Amy C Marschilok, Esther S Takeuchi, Kenneth J Takeuchi 3Novel Vanadium Based Cation-Disordered Lithium Transition Metal Oxides for Li-Ion Batteries Musa Ali Cambaz, Maximilian Fichtner 4Electrochemical Characteristics of Densely-Packed Li(Ni1/3Co1/3Mn1/3)O2 Single Crystals As an Additive-Free Electrodes for Advanced Lithium-Ion Secondary Battery Takeshi Kimijima, Nobuyuki Zettsu, Katsuya Teshima 5Investigation of LiMn2O4 Thin-Film Electrode Using Redox Reaction of Ferrocene Jun-ichi Inamoto, Kohei Miyazaki, Tomokazu Fukutsuka, Takeshi Abe 6Nanostructured Organic Positive Electrodes for Sustainable Energy Storage Tianyuan Liu, Byeongyong Lee, Seung Woo Lee 7Self-Polymerized Dopamine As an Organic Cathode for Lithium-Ion Batteries Tianyuan Liu, Byeongyong Lee, Seung Woo Lee 8New Redox Polymer Hybrids: Bridging the Gap Between Li-Ion Batteries and Supercapacitors Jean Francois Gohy 9Formation of Percolating Carbon Networks in Battery Processing and Their Effects on Electrode Performance Samantha Morelly, Maureen Han-Mei Tang, Nicolas J. Alvarez 10Electrochemical Properties of Surface-Treated Hard Carbon Electrode Wen Ma, Tomokazu Fukutsuka, Kohei Miyazaki, Takeshi Abe 11Electrochemical Lithiation/Delithiation Process of Si Toshihiro Kondo, Nana Aoki, Asami Omachi, Kohei Uosaki 12In Operando Structural and Acoustic Analysis of Lithium-Ion Batteries Andrew Hsieh, Greg Davies, Michael Wang, Daniel A Steingart 13Path Dependence in Lithium-Ion Batteries Degradation - a Comparison of Cycle and Calendar Aging Matthieu Dubarry, Arnaud Devie 14Battery Degradation and Cost Analysis of a Lithium Ion Battery System for a 1 MW Green Energy Hub (GEH) Larry Morris, Mark H Weatherspoon 15Unscented Kalman Filter-Based Online State-of-Charge Estimation in LiFePO4 Battery-Powered Electric Vehicles Boyan Huang, Chenxi Wang, Zheng Zhu, Yegui Xiao 16Reconfigurable Battery Pack for a Lithium Based Battery Charger for BMS Applications Larry Morris, Mark H Weatherspoon, Jamal Frederon Stephens, Pedro L. Moss 17Development and Implementation of Lithium-Ion Battery Performance and Capacity Fade Models for Resource Planning Tools Bharatkumar Suthar, Michael Scioletti, Alexandra Newman, Paul A Kohl 18Modeling Volume Change and Battery Performance Due to Intercalation in Porous Electrodes Taylor Reed Garrick, Yiling Dai, Kenneth Higa, Xinyu Huang, Venkat Srinivasan, John W. Weidner 19Block Copolymer Sdapp Membranes for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries-Strategy to Address Transport and Durability Zhijiang Tang, Cy Fujimoto, Thomas A. Zawodzinski 20Disulfonated Copolymer Membranes with Improved Selectivity and Lifetime for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries Kenan Kara, Mehmet Sankir, Nurdan Demirci Sankir, Ertan Agar 21Effect of Membrane Type of the Performance of a Hydrogen-Vanadium Flow Battery Trung Van Nguyen, Regis Paul Dowd, Ryszard Wycisk, Peter N. Pintauro 22Enhancement of Electrode Reactions in Flow Batteries at Finely Etched and Metal Oxide Loaded Graphitized Carbon Fiber Jun Maruyama, Takahiro Hasegawa, Satoshi Iwasaki, Tomoko Fukuhara, Kei Hanafusa 23Fabrication and Characterization of Electrospun Electrodes for Flow Battery Applications Selina Peng Liu, Jeff T. Gostick 24Countering Degradation of Carbon Felt Electrodes in All-Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFB) Igor Derr, Christina Roth 25Performance of Vanadium Redox Flow Battery By Using the Electrode with Porous Carbon Nanofiber Hirokazu Ishitobi, Takuya Yoshida, Satoshi Sugawara, Nobuyoshi Nakagawa 26Improved Performance of Ti/Mn Redox Flow Battery By Thermally Treated Carbon Paper Electrodes Yong-Rong Dong, Hirokazu Kaku, Kei Hanafusa, Kiyoaki Moriuchi, Toshio Shigematsu 27Activated Carbon Modified Electrodes for Soluble Lead-Acid Flow Batteries Hao-Lun Tang, Hsun-Yi Chen 28Rde Kinetic Study of V(IV)/V(V) and V(II)/V(III) Reactions on Thermally Activated and Non-Activated Carbon Felts Yue Li, Javier Parrondo, Vijay K Ramani 29Characterization of Carbon Materials for Redox Flow Battery Electrodes By Potential- Step Coulometry Yukari Sato, Ayumi Narita, Yuji Kaneko, Akira Negishi, Ken Nozaki, Tohru Kato 30Effect of Carbon Substrate Pretreatment on the Ecsa and Activity of RhxSy/C Catalyst Yuanchao Li, Trung Van Nguyen 31A New Process to Synthesize the Rh2S3 Precursor for RhxSy Catalyst for HER/HOR in HBr Solution Yuanchao Li, Trung Van Nguyen 32Stability of Catholytes in Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries and the Kinetics of Precipitation of VV Daniela Oboroceanu, Nathan Quill, Catherine Lenihan, Deirdre Ní Eidhin, Sergiu Petru Albu, Robert Patrick Lynch, D. Noel Buckley 33Solid Dispersion Flow Battery Particle Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterization Gary Koenig 34Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries Based on Polyoxometalates Jee-Jay James Chen, Mark Alan Barteau 35Organic Redox Flow Batteries for Large-Scale Energy Storage Lena Hoober-Burkhardt, Bo Yang, Sankarganesh Krishnamoorthy, Advaith Murali, G. K. Surya Prakash, S. R. Narayanan 36Copper Bromide Chemistry Analysis for Use in Large Scale Energy Storage and Beyond Elizabeth A. Stricker, Jesse S. Wainright, Robert F. Savinell 37Low-Cost, Non-Hazardous All-Iron Battery for the Developing World Michael C Tucker, David Lambelet, Adam Phillips, Mohamed Oueslati, Benjamin Williams, Wu-Chieh Wang, Adam Z Weber 38Understanding Speciation in Ionic-Liquid Electrolytes for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries Mallory A. Miller, Jason Gaudet, Levi T Thompson, Jesse S. Wainright, Robert F. Savinell 39Analysis of Ion Crossover in Membranes in All-Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries Yasser Ashraf Gandomi, Douglas Aaron, Matthew M. Mench 40The Influence of Flow Field and Electrode Design on Crossover of Ions in All- Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries Yasser Ashraf Gandomi, Jacob Houser, Douglas Aaron, Matthew M. Mench 41A Multi-Dimensional Vanadium Redox Flow Battery Performance Model Accounting for Species Crossover Federico Moro, Alberto Bertucco, Monica Giomo, Massimo Guarnieri 42Development Strategy and Comparison of a Novel Flow Field Design for Redox Flow Battery Daouda Fofana, Edward Roberts 43Parametrization and Validation of a Vanadium-Redox-Flow Cell Model Björn Kleinsteinberg, Ayşen Çerçi, Dirk Uwe Sauer 44Characterization of Fluid Flow Dispersion in Electrodes By Means of Computed Tomography and Lattice-Boltzmann Simulations Dario Maggiolo, Andrea Trovo', Francesco Picano, Simone Carmignato, Massimo Guarnieri 45Redox Flow Battery Cost Modeling: Bridging Techno-Economic Analysis to Materials Selection Criteria Jarrod David Milshtein, Rylan Doyle Dmello, Fikile R. Brushett, Kyle Christopher Smith 46Performance and Cost Characteristics of Multi-Electron Transfer, Common Ion Exchange Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries Sydney M Laramie, Jarrod David Milshtein, Tanya Marie Breault, Fikile R. Brushett, Levi T Thompson 47Co-Laminar Flow Cell with Power Density of 2 Wcm-2 Marc-Antoni Goulet, Omar Ibrahim, Erik Kjeang 48Electrochemical Refrigeration and Energy Harvesting with the Vanadium-Bromide Couples Ian Salmon McKay, Jay Schwalbe, Matteo Cargnello, Arun Majumdar 49Energy Storage in Environmentally Stable Nanoscale Magnesium Hybrid Materials Jeffrey J Urban 50Influence of Surface Oxygen Non-Stoichiometry on Oxygen Electrochemical Properties of Perovskite-Type Oxides Yuto Miyahara, Kohei Miyazaki, Tomokazu Fukutsuka, Takeshi Abe 51Bacterial-Cellulose-Derived Carbon As Air Electrode Material for Lithium Air Secondary Batteries Masaya Nohara, Yuhki Yui, Shuhei Sakamoto, Masahiko Hayashi, Takeshi Komatsu 52Understanding Hydrogen Peroxide Decomposition Activity of Transition Metal Oxide Catalysts in Oxygen Reduction Reaction Phong Trinh, Souradip Malkhandi, Aswin K Manohar, A. Manivannan, G. K. Surya Prakash, S. R. Narayanan 53Highly-Active, Durable and Inexpensive Iron-Based Electrocatalyst for Oxygen Evolution Debanjan Mitra, Chenguang Yang, Aswin K Manohar, Phong Trinh, S. R. Narayanan 54Investigation of Triple-Phase Boundary Region in Partially Immersed Pt Segmented Electrode As a Model Electrode of Air Electrodes for Metal-Air Secondary
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