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Reduced graphene oxide electrode-coating as anti-corrosive/anti-oxidative laminate for Al/Cu liquid-phase batteries

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Generated power decay in liquid-phase batteries makes it challenging to operate appliances from portable electronic gadgets to light vehicles. When strong acids or bases are used as electrolytes, they often corrode and oxidize electrodes, which eventually degrades performance. To address this urgency, we have employed reduced graphene oxide (RGO) obtained by modified Hummer’s method followed by microwave exposure; as a laminate for copper (Cu) as well as aluminum (Al) electrodes and have demonstrated that it not only safeguards electrodes against strong acids (e.g., FeCl3)/bases (e.g. NaOH), it also enhances performances manifold. Diverse microscopic and spectroscopic tools have been employed to establish the proof of the concept. The functioning of LED light and potable fan blades has been demonstrated. With RGO electrode lamination, Al/Cu liquid phase batteries, having FeCl3/NaOH as electrolytes; could run for 2 h. Present research would inspire future efforts in renewable energy generation, it is believed.

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Reduced graphene oxide electrode coating acts as anti-corrosive/oxidative electrode-laminate and enhances performance and life time of Al/Cu liquid-phase batteries.

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PK acknowledges SERB, Govt. of India for a research grant under the Ramanujan Fellowship (sanction no. SB/S2/RJN-205/2014). PR acknowledges SERB for research grant (SRG/2022/000192). Authors acknowledge the Indian Institute of Technology Patna for providing research facilities.

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    Harsh Ranjan, Tumesh Kumar Sahu, Raju Kumar Sharma & Prashant Kumar

  2. Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Karwar, Rajasthan, 342037, India

    Pranay Ranjan

  3. Department of Physics, Shri Ramdeo Baba College of Engineering and Management, Nagpur, Maharashtra, 440013, India

    Tumesh Kumar Sahu

  4. Global Innovative Centre for Advanced Nanomaterials, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, 2308, Australia

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PK conceived the idea. HR carried out all experimental work on liquid phase batteries. PR and TKS helped with characterizations of GO and RGO materials and RKS helped with wettability measurements. PK analysed all the data. PK and PR wrote the paper. PK oversaw the project.

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Ranjan, H., Ranjan, P., Sahu, T.K. et al. Reduced graphene oxide electrode-coating as anti-corrosive/anti-oxidative laminate for Al/Cu liquid-phase batteries. Journal of Materials Research 38, 1792–1802 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-022-00814-9

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