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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Rea Press</journal-id>
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      <journal-title>Rea Press</journal-title><issn pub-type="ppub">3042-0210</issn><issn pub-type="epub">3042-0210</issn><publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.48313/mtei.v1i4.68</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group><subject>Renewable energy, Vanadium redox flow battery, Carbon nanotubes, Carbon felt</subject></subj-group>
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        <article-title>Synergistic Enhancement of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries via Carbon Nanotube-Decorated and Thermally-Acid Activated Carbon Felt Electrodes</article-title><subtitle>Synergistic Enhancement of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries via Carbon Nanotube-Decorated and Thermally-Acid Activated Carbon Felt Electrodes</subtitle></title-group>
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	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Rashid Nadimi </surname>
		<given-names>Sahar </given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Department of Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.</aff>
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	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Zarei Jaliyani</surname>
		<given-names>Mohammad </given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Department of Renewable Energy Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.</aff>
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      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2024</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>13</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2024</year>
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      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
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        <copyright-statement>© 2024 Rea Press</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"><p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p></license>
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			<article-title>Synergistic Enhancement of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries via Carbon Nanotube-Decorated and Thermally-Acid Activated Carbon Felt Electrodes</article-title>
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			In recent years, Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFBs) have attracted significant attention as an important energy storage technology. These batteries are considered among the advanced energy storage systems that offer unique capabilities for power generation applications and other industrial uses. Today, the integration of this technology with solar power plants, wind farms, and thermal power stations has experienced substantial growth. Each vanadium redox flow battery cell consists of two half-cells separated by a proton exchange membrane. In addition, every single cell contains two electrodes that serve as the active sites for electrochemical reactions, through which chemical energy is converted into electrical energy. Carbon felt is one of the commonly used electrode materials in vanadium batteries. The objective of this study is to introduce an effective method for activating the surface of Carbon felt electrodes using Carbon Nanotubes (CNT), in such a way that electrochemical processes proceed at higher reaction rates, thereby enhancing the overall efficiency and performance of VRFBs.
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