Publications by Alberto Battistel

Non-Precious Electrodes for Practical Alkaline Water Electrolysis

Hubert Girault, Alberto Battistel, Alejandro Nicolás Colli

Water electrolysis is a promising approach to hydrogen production from renewable energy sources. Alkaline water electrolyzers allow using non-noble and low-cost materials. An analysis of common assumptions and experimental conditions (low concentrations, l ...

2019

On-Site Purification of Copper-Contaminated Vanadium Electrolytes by using a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery

Hubert Girault, Heron Vrubel, Danick Reynard, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Alberto Battistel

Corrosion of carbon-based electrodes and bipolar plates is a major hurdle and can be a cause of failure in commercial vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs). Carbon corrosion was found to occur in a commercial VRFB (10 kW/40 kWh), whereby cracks through bip ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Local Study on Hydrogen and Hydrogen Gas Bubble Formation on a Platinum Electrode

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Alberto Battistel

This work investigates the effect of current density on the hydrogen gas bubble formation during electrolysis on a platinum electrode. Local detection of bubble evolution was performed electrochemically by using a hydrogen-collecting microelectrode placed ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Efficiency improvement of an all-vanadium redox flow battery by harvesting low-grade heat

Hubert Girault, Danick Reynard, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Alberto Battistel

Redox flow batteries (RFBs) are rugged systems, which can withstand several thousand cycles and last many years. However, they suffer from low energy density, low power density, and low efficiency. Integrating a Thermally Regenerative Electrochemical Cycle ...

2018

Measurement and Analysis of Dynamic Impedance Spectra Acquired During the Oscillatory Electrodissolution of p-Type Silicon in Fluoride-Containing Electrolytes

Alberto Battistel

2018

Electrochemical Reduction of Protic Supercritical CO2 on Copper Electrodes

Patrick Voyame, Victor Costa Bassetto, Alberto Battistel, Olga Melchaeva

The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide is usually studied in aqueous solutions under ambient conditions. However, the main disadvantages of this method are high hydrogen evolution and low faradaic efficiencies of carbon-based products. Supercritic ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2017

Redox Solid Energy Boosters for Flow Batteries: Polyaniline as a Case Study

Hubert Girault, Véronique Amstutz, Heron Vrubel, Pekka Eero Peljo, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Alberto Battistel, Elena Zanzola

In this work, the viability of polyaniline as a solid charge storage material in an aqueous redox-mediated flow battery is investigated. Fe(III/II) and V(IV/III) were identified as potential redox mediators to target the emeraldine-pernigraniline and leuco ...

Elsevier2017

Dynamic impedance spectroscopy using dynamic multi-frequency analysis: A theoretical and experimental investigation

Alberto Battistel

Dynamic impedance spectroscopy is a powerful tool to investigate the temporal development of reaction kinetics in electrochemical systems, where the reactive species may undergo irreversible changes during the measurement. In this work we redefined dynamic ...

Elsevier2017

On the Analysis of Non-stationary Impedance Spectra

Alberto Battistel

In this work we study the possibility to analyze the non-stationary impedance spectra by employing standard equivalent circuits. For this purpose, the dynamic multi-frequency analysis (DMFA) is introduced and compared with a set of consecutive stationary i ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016