Rapid Atmospheric-Pressure-Plasma-Jet Processed Porous Materials for Energy Harvesting and Storage Devices
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Abstract
Atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) technology is a versatile technology that has been applied in many energy harvesting and storage devices. This feature article provides an overview of the advances in APPJ technology and its application to solar cells and batteries. The ultrafast APPJ sintering of nanoporous oxides and 3D reduced graphene oxide nanosheets with accompanying optical emission spectroscopy analyses are described in detail. The applications of these nanoporous materials to photoanodes and counter electrodes of dye-sensitized solar cells are described. An ultrashort treatment (1 min) on graphite felt electrodes of flow batteries also significantly improves the energy efficiency.
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OpenAlex topics: Plasma Applications and Diagnostics · Electrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics · Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
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Affiliations
Graduate Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 10617, Taiwan
Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 10617, Taiwan
Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 10617, Taiwan
Funding
Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
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