Quantifying Decay Rates of Electrochemically Active Species Using Microelectrode Voltammetry

摘要

The availability, abundance, and energy density of fossil resources have driven progress over the last century leading to dramatic improvements in quality of life worldwide. However, to avert catastrophic climate change, there is an increasingly urgent need to reduce carbon emissions without stifling economic growth. Deep decarbonization necessitates mass deployment of renewable technologies, such as wind and solar photovoltaic, to displace existing carbon-intensive electricity generation. Though increasingly inexpensive, the inherent difficulties in converting the intermittent output of renewable installations into reliable, dispatchable power sources represents an important constraint and motivates research into storage technologies to buffer the intermittency without significantly increasing the cost of electricity.