Graphite Carbon Materials from Clean Hydrogen Production for Battery Applications

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Date: Tuesday, 23rd July 2024
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm (AEST)

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Graphite Carbon Materials from Clean Hydrogen Production for Battery Applications

Miss Yuqi Pan, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney

Methane pyrolysis (CH4 → 2H2 + C), which directly splits CH4 into H2 and solid carbon, is a promising approach for low-emission H2 production. With a mass ratio of H2 to solid carbon of 1 to 3, large amounts of carbon materials are generated from the process. Developing value-added applications for these solid carbon co-products could eliminate waste generation, bring economic benefits, and significantly offset H2 production costs. In this seminar, the carbon co-products from methane pyrolysis playing different roles for battery applications are demonstrated, which involve conductive additives in manganese dioxide cathodes for zinc-carbon batteries, cathode and anode materials for dual-carbon batteries. These findings open new energy storage applications for these graphitic carbon materials from the clean hydrogen production process.

Miss Yuqi Pan is a PhD candidate under the supervision of Prof. Yuan Chen at the University of Sydney, where she received her MPE degree in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Her research interests focus on carbon materials and battery systems, which include the characterizations of carbon materials and their applications in different battery systems, such as zinc-carbon batteries, and dual-carbon batteries.