Research Papers

As specialists in supplying advanced materials & equipment, often in small scale quantities, PI-KEM products are cited in many Research Papers.

Below are links to research papers, where our products have been referenced.

 

Battery Research

• Singlet Oxygen Evolution from Layered Transition Metal Oxide Cathode Materials and its implication for Lithium-Ion Batteries

PI-KEM products referenced: Standard Nickel and Aluminum Current Collector Tabs (4mm width)

Johannes Wandt, Anna T.S. Freiberg, Alexander Ogrodnik, Hubert A. Gasteiger

Technische Universität München, Department of Chemistry and Catalysis Research Center, Chair of Technical Electrochemistry, Germany

Materials Today
April 2018

 

• Partially Neutralized Polyacrylic Acid/Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Blends as Effective Binders for High-Performance Silicon Anodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries

PI-KEM products referenced: Lithium Disc D = 15.6 mm

Qianye Huang, Chaoying Wan, Melanie Loveridge, Rohit Bhagat
Energy Innovation Centre (EIC), WMG, University of Warwick, UK, CV4 7AL

ACS Applied Energy Materials 2018
November 2018

 

• Gyroidal Porous Carbon Activated with NH₃ or CO₂ as Lithium-Sulfir Battery Cathodes

PI-KEM products referenced: Electrochemical Grade High Purity (99.9 %) Lithium

Benjamin Krüner, Tobias S. Dorr, Hwirim Shim, Dr. Joachim Sann, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Janek , Prof. Volker Presse
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Batteries & Supercaps. Volume 1, 2
April 2018

 

• Nanostructured Networks for Energy Storage: Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes (VACNT) as Current Collectors for High-Power Li₄Ti₅O₁₂(LTO)//LiMn₂O₄(LMO) Lithium-Ion Batteries

PI-KEM products referenced: 250 µm-thick Lithium Chip (99%; d = 15.6 mm)

Fabian Pawlitzek, Holger Althues, Benjamin Schumm, Stefan Kaskel
Inorganic Chemistry Department, Dresden University of Technology, Bergstrasse 66, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Batteries. Volume 3, 4
November 2017

 

• Nano-sized Mo- and Nb-doped TiO₂ as Anode Materials for High Energy and High Power Hybrid Li-ion Capacitors

PI-KEM products referenced:

• TiO₂ with binder Polyvinylidene Fluoride, PVDF
• 9 μm thick Copper Foil
• Lithium Metal Foil

Dustin Bauer, Alexander J Roberts, Noriyoshi Matsumi, Jawwad A Darr
Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK
Nanotechnology, Volume 28, 19
April 2017

 

• Carbon Onion-Sulfer Hybrid Cathodes for Litium-Sulfer Batteries

PI-KEM products referenced: Electrochemical grade high purity (99.9%) Lithium

Soumyadip Choudhury, Marco Zeiger, Pau Massuti-Ballester, Simon Fleischmann, Petr Formanek, Lars Borchardt, Volker Presser
INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Campus D2 2, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Sustainable Energy Fuels, Volume 1
January 2017

 

• Correlating Electrochemical Impedance with Hierarchical Structure for Porus Carbon-Based Supercapacitors Using a Trucated Transmission Line Model

PI-KEM products referenced: Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF) binder

Dina IbrahimAbo uelamaiem, GuanjieHe, Tobias P.Neville, DrastiPatel, ShanJi, RongfangWang, Ivan P.Parkin, Ana BelenJorge, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Paul R.Shearing, Daniel J.L.Brett
Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 7JE, UK
Electrochimica Act. Volume 284
July 2018

 

• Effect on Current Collector on Performance of Li-S Batteries

Ivan Raguzin, Soumyadip Choudhury, Frank Simon, Manfred Stamm, Leonid Ionov

Leibniz‐Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V., Hohe Str. 6, 01069 Dresden, Germany

Advanced Materials Interfaces

December 2016

 

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• High Energy Lithium Ion Battery Electrode Materials; Enhanced Charge Storage via both Alloying and Insertion Processes

PI-KEM products referenced:

• Polyvinylidene Fluoride
• Copper Foil

Mechthild Lübke, Dougal Howard, Ceilidh F.Armer, Aleksandra J. Gardecka, Adrian Lowe, M.V. Reddy, Zhaolin Liu, Jawwad A. Darr
Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK
Electrochimica Acta. Volume 231
March 2017

 

• High-Power Sodium Titanate Anodes; a Comparison of Lithium vs Sodium-Ion Batteries

Yijie Xu, Dustin Bauer, Mechthild Lübke, Thomas E.Ashton, YunZonG, Jawwad A.Darr
Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK
Journal of Power Sources. Volume 408
31 December 2018

 

• Investigating the Evolving Microstucture of Lithium Metal Electrodes in 3D using X-ray Computed Tomography

PI-KEM products referenced:

• PVDF binder
• 200 µm thick Lithium Foil

O. O. Taiwo, D. P. Finegan, J. M. Paz-García, D. S. Eastwood, A. J. Bodey, C. Rau, S. A. Hall, D. J. L. Brett, P. D. Lee, P. R. Shearing
Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, WC1E 7JE, UK
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Volume 19
July 2017

 

• Investigation of Cycling-Induced Microstructural Degradation in Silicon-based Electrodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries using X-ray Nanotomography

PI-KEM products referenced: Metallic Lithium Foil Counter Electrode

O.O. Taiwo. Melanie Loveridge, Shane D.Beattie, Donal P.Finegan, Robit Bhagat, Daniel J.L.Brett, Paul R.Shearing

Electrochemical Innovationo Lab. Department of Chemical Engineering. University College London.

WC1E 7JE. UK

Electrochimica Acta. Volumne 253

November 2017

 

• Investigation of the Li Solubility in the Intermediate Phase Li₁₇Sn₄ Relevant to Understanding Lithiation Mechanisms in Sn-Based Anode Materials

Dr.Thomas L.Reichmann, C.Gebert, Damian M.Cupid
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Materials-Applied Materials Physics (IAM-AWP), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
Journal of Alloys and Compounds. Volume 714
August 2017

 

• Quantifying Structure Dependent Responses in Li-ion Cells with Excess Li Spinel Cathodes: Matching Voltage and Entropy Profiles Through Mean Field Models

PI-KEM products referenced: 150 µm Li Foil

S. Schlueter, R. Genieser, D. Richards, H. E. Hoster, M. Mercer
Department of Chemistry, Lancaster University, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YB, UK
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Volume 20
July 2018

 

• Carbon Onion/Sulfur Hybrid Cathodes via Inverse Vulcanization for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

PI-KEM products referenced: Electrochemical grade high purity (99.9%) Lithium

Soumyadip Choudhury, Pattarachai Srimuk, Kumar Raju, Aura Tolosa, Simon Fleischmann, Marco Zeiger, Kenneth I. Ozoemena, Lars Borchardt, Volker Presser
Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Campus D2 2, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Sustainable Energy Fuels. Volume 2
October 2017

 

• High Energy Lithium Ion Battery Electrode Materials; Enhanced Charge Storage via both Alloying and Insertion Processes

PI-KEM products referenced:

• 10 wt% Polyvinylidene Fluoride
• Copper Foil

Mechthild Lübke, Dougal Howard, Ceilidh F.Armer, Aleksandra J.Gardecka, Adrian Lowe, M.V.Reddy, Zhaolin Liu, Jawwad A.Darr
Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK
Electrochimica Acta. Volume 231
March 2017

 

• Impact of the Morphology of V₂O₅ Electrodes on the Electrochemical Na⁺-Ion Intercalation

PI-KEM products referenced: 15 μm Al-foil

Huinan Si, Lukas Seidl, Eileen Miao Ling Chu, Slađana Martens, Jiwei Ma, Xinping Qiu, Ulrich Stimming, Oliver Schneider

Joint Research Institute for Advanced Power Sources for Electric Vehicles, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, People's Republic of China
Journal of The Electrchemical Society
August 2018

 

• Intergration of Supercapacitors into Printed Circuit Boards

PI-KEM products referenced: Polyvinylidene Fluoride

Dina Ibrahim Abouelamaiem, LaraRasha, Guanjie He, Tobias P.Neville, Jason Millichamp, Tom J.Mason, Ana Belen Jorge, Ivan P.Parkin, Maria-MagdalenaTitirici, RongfangWang, Shan Ji, Paul R.Shearing, Daniel J.L.Brett
Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 7JE, UK
Journal of Energy Storage
July 2018

 

• Investigating the Evolving Microstructure of Litium Metal Electrodes in 3D using X-ray Computed Tomography

PI-KEM products referenced:

• PVDF binder
• 200 µm thick Lithium Foil

O.O Taiwo, D. P. Finegan, J. M. Paz-García, D. S. Eastwood, A. J. Bodey, C. Rau, S. A. Hall, D. J. L. Brett, P. D. Lee, P. R. Shearing

Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 7JE, UK

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
July 2017

 

• High Power Sodium-Ion Batteries and Hybrid Electochemical Capacitors Using Mo or Nb-Doped Nano-Titania Anodes

PI-KEM products referenced:

• TiO₂ with a binder Polyvinylidene Fluoride, PVDF
• 15 μm Aluminum Foil

Dustin Bauer, Alexander J. Roberts, Sai Gourang Patnaik, Dan J. L. Brett, Paul R. Shearing, Emma Kendrick, Noriyoshi Matsumi, Jawwad A. Darr
Department of Chemistry, University College London, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
Journal of The Electrochemical Society
June 2018

 

• Pilot-Scale continuous Synthesis of a Vanadium-Doped LiFePO₄/C Nanocomposite High-Rate Cathode for Lithium-ion Batteries

PI-KEM products referenced:

• Aluminum Foil
• Lithium Metal Foil

Ian D.Johnson, Mechthild Lübke, On Ying Wu, Neel M.Makwana, Glen J.Smales, Husn U.Islam, Rashmi Y.Dedigama, Robert I.Gruar, Christopher J.Tighe, David O.Scanlon, Furio Corà, Dan J.L.Brett, Paul R.Shearing, Jawward A. Darr
Department of Chemistry, University College London, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
Journal of Power Sources. Volume 302
January 2016

 

• Lithium Ion Batteries (NMC/graphite) Cycling at 80ºC: Different Electrolytes and Related Degradation Mechanism

PI-KEM products referenced: Lithium 15.6 mm discs

R. Genieser, S. Ferrari, M. Loveridge, S.D. Beattie, R. Beanland, H. Amari, G. West, R. Bhagat
WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7 Al, UK
Journal of Power Sources. Volume 373
September 2017

 

• Nano-sized Transition Metal Oxide Negative Electrode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries

Metchthild Luebke
Department of Chemistry, University College London, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
Thesis
March 2018

 

• Electrochemical Evaluation and Phase-related Impedance Studies on Silicon-Few Layer Graphene (FLG) Composite Electrode Systems

PI-KEM products referenced: Lithium Disc D = 15.6 mm

Qianye Huang, Melanie J. Loveridge, Ronny Geniser, Michael J. Lain, Rohit Bhagat
WMG, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7 Al, UK
Scientific Reports. Volume 8
January 2018

 

• Toward Pre-Lithiated High Areal Capacity Silicon Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Mario Marinaro, Manuel Weinberger, Margret Wohlfahrt-Mehrens
ZSW, Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg, Helmholtzstr. 8, D-89081 Ulm, Germany
Electrochimica Acta. Volume 206
April 2016

 

Graphene Research

Graphenea Research Papers (using TEM Grids):

• Atmospheric pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy apparatus- Bridging the pressure gap

J. J. Velasco-Vélez,1,2,a) V. Pfeifer,2 M. Hävecker,1,a) R. Wang,3 A. Centeno,4 A. Zurutuza,4 G. Algara-Siller,2 E. Stotz,2 K. Skorupska,1 D. Teschner,2 P. Kube,2 P. Braeuninger-Weimer,3 S. Hofmann,3 R. Schlögl,1,2 and A. Knop-Gericke2
1. Department of Heterogeneous Reactions, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr 45470, Germany
2. Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin 14195, Germany
3. Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FA, United Kingdom
4. Graphenea, San Sebastian 20018, Spain
AIP Review of Scientific Instruments
May 2016

 

• Direct Observation of a Long-Lived Single-Atom Catalyst Chiseling Atomic Structures in Graphene

Wei Li Wang,†,‡ Elton J. G. Santos,‡ Bin Jiang,§ Ekin Dogus Cubuk,‡ Colin Ophus,∥ Alba Centeno,⊥ Amaia Pesquera,⊥ Amaia Zurutuza,⊥ Jim Ciston,∥ Robert Westervelt,†,‡ and Efthimios Kaxiras*,†,‡

† Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

‡ School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States

§ FEI Corporation, 5350 NE Dawson Creek Drive, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124, United States

∥ National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States

⊥Graphenea S.A., 76 Tolosa Hiribidea, Donostia-San Sebastian, E-20018, Spain
ACS Publications
January 2014

 

• The Role of Adsorbed and Subsurface Carbon Species for the Selective Alkyne Hydrogenation Over a Pd-Black Catalyst: An Operando Study of Bulk and Surface

J. J. Velasco-Vélez,1,2,a) V. Pfeifer,2 M. Hävecker,1,a) R. Wang,3 A. Centeno,4 A. Zurutuza,4 G. Algara-Siller,2 E. Stotz,2 K. Skorupska,1 D. Teschner,2 P. Kube,2 P. Braeuninger-Weimer,3 S. Hofmann,3 R. Schlögl,1,2 and A. Knop-Gericke2

J. J. Velasco‑Vélez velasco@fhi‑berlin.mpg.de
1. Department of Heterogeneous Reactions, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr 45470, Germany
2. Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin 14195, Germany
3. Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FA, United Kingdom
4. Graphenea, San Sebastian 20018, Spain
Springer
October 2018

 

• Electrochemically active Ir NPs on graphene for OER in acidic aqueous electrolyte investigated by in situ and ex situ spectroscopies

J.J. Velasco-Véleza,b,⁎, T.E. Jonesb, V. Streibelb, M. Häveckera, Chuang C.-H.c, L. Frevela, M. Plodineca,d, A. Centenoe, A. Zurutuzae, Wang R.f, R. Arrigog, R. Moma, S. Hofmannf, R. Schlögla,b, A. Knop-Gerickeb
a Department of Heterogeneous Reactions, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim an der Ruhr 45470, Germany
b Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin 14195, Germany
c Department of Physics, Tamkang University, New Taipei City 25137, Taiwan
d Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Bijenicka 54, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia
e Graphenea, San Sebastian 20018, Spain
f Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FA, United Kingdom
g Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science & Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX 11 0DE, United Kingdom
Surface Science 2018 Elsevier B.V.
October 2018