Our society is now rapidly increasing activities and actions in the energy transition, to steer away from fossil fuels to renewable energy systems. This is in large driven by the ambition to decrease carbon dioxide emissions and also an effect of massive cost reductions in renewable electricity production. As a result, we see an accelerating electrification of a large number of industrial processes as well as in most parts of our transport systems. This has in turn generated a great increase in the interest and implementation of electrochemical energy conversion, including batteries, fuel cells, and electrolysis. Electrochemical energy conversion takes place through electrochemical reactions on the electrodes in electrochemical cells in these technologies. The possibility to couple electrochemistry with quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (EQCM-D) is a powerful tool to study various aspects of electrochemical reactions on both fundamental and applied levels.
Webinar content:
- Introduction to the energy transition and the most important electrochemical energy conversion technologies
- Examples of how EQCM-D can be used to give further insights to the processes that occur on electrodes in batteries, fuel cells and in electrolysis
Presenter
Associate Professor Björn Wickman
Department of Physics at Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden
