• Energy citizenship in positive energy districts—towards a transdisciplinary approach to impact assessment 

  van Wees, Mark; Pineda Revilla, Beatriz; Fitzgerald, Helena; Ahlers, Dirk; Romero, Natalia; Alpagut, Beril; Kort, Joke; Tjahja, Cyril; Kaiser, Gabi; Blessing, Viktoria; Patricio, Lia; Smit, Sander (2022)

  It is commonly assumed by the projects demonstrating concepts for positive energy districts in cities across Europe that citizens want and need to be involved in the development of these concepts as an essential condition ...
• Direct growth of Si, Ge, and Si–Ge heterostructure nanowires using electroplated Zn: an inexpensive seeding technique for Li-Ion alloying anodes 

  Kilian, Seamus; McCarthy, Kieran; Stokes, Killian; Adegoke, Temilade Esther; Conroy, Michele A.; Amiinu, Ibrahim Saana; Geaney, Hugh; Kennedy, Tadhg; Ryan, Kevin M. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2021)

  A scalable and cost-effective process is used to electroplate metallic Zn seeds on stainless steel substrates. Si and Ge nanowires (NWs) are subsequently grown by placing the electroplated substrates in the solution phase ...
• Energy citizenship in new energy concepts 

  van Wees, Mark; Revilla, Beatriz Pineda; Fitzgerald, Helena; Ahlers, Dirk; Romero, Natalia; Alpagut, Beril; Kort, Joke; Tjahja, Cyril; Kaiser, Gabi; Blessing, Viktoria; Patricio, Lia; Smit, Sander (MDPI, 2021)

  It is assumed by the projects demonstrating Positive Energy District (PED) concepts in cities across Europe that citizens should want and need to be involved in the development of new energy concepts, such as PEDs for these ...
• Dense silicon nanowire networks grown on a stainless-steel fiber cloth: A flexible and robust anode for lithium-ion batteries 

  Imtiaz, Sumair; Amiinu, Ibrahim Saana; Storan, Dylan; Kapuria, Nilotpal; Geaney, Hugh; Kennedy, Tadhg; Ryan, Kevin M. (Wiley, 2021)

  Silicon nanowires (Si NWs) are a promising anode material for lithiumion batteries (LIBs) due to their high specific capacity. Achieving adequate mass loadings for binder-free Si NWs is restricted by low surface area, ...
• Progress and perspectives on alloying-type anode materials for advanced potassium-ion batteries 

  Imtiaz, Sumair; Amiinu, Ibrahim Saana; Xu, Yang; Kennedy, Tadhg; Blackman, Chris; Ryan, Kevin M. (Elsevier, 2021)

  Potassium-ion batteries (PIBs) have attracted increasing interest as promising alternatives to lithiumion batteries (LIBs) for application in large-scale electrical energy storage systems (EESSs) owing to a wide earth-abundance, ...
• Balancing Urban Innovation with a Responsible Approach to the Internet of Things: The Case of Limerick 

  Fitzgerald, Helena; Walsh, Gerard; Avram, Gabriela; Kinsella, Stephen; Burón García, Javier (ThingsCon e.V., Berlin., 2019-12)

  Smart cities appear to be synonymous with pervasive IoT. Footfall, energy consumption, passengers availing of public transport, everything needs to be monitored, predicted and adjusted to fit pre-determined models. But ...
• +Limerick: Innovation and infrastructure in the positive energy city 

  Fitzgerald, Helena (RIAI, 2020)

  If you walk through Limerick’s Georgian streets and cast your eyes downward, you might notice a square object punctuating the surface of the path – a cast iron plate in a limestone frame, cut from a single block. When the ...
• Influence of carbonate-based additives on the electrochemical performance of Si NW anodes cycled in an ionic liquid electrolyte. 

  Stokes, Killian; Kennedy, Tadhg; Kim, Guk-Tae; Geaney, Hugh; Storan, Dylan; Laffir, Fathima R.; Appetecchi, Giovanni Battista; Passerini, Stefano; Ryan, Kevin M. (2020)

  Addition of electrolyte additives (ethylene or vinylene carbonate) is shown to dramatically improve the cycling stability and capacity retention (1600 mAh g-1) of Si nanowires (NWs) in a safe ionic liquid (IL) electrolyte ...
• Copper silicide nanowires as hosts for amorphous Si deposition as a route to produce high capacity lithium-ion battery anodes 

  Stokes, Killian; Geaney, Hugh; Sheehan, Martin; Borsa, Dana; Ryan, Kevin M. (American Chemical Society, 2019)

  Herein, copper silicide (Cu15Si4) nanowires (NWs) grown in high densities from a metallic Cu substrate are utilized as nanostructured hosts for amorphous silicon (aSi) deposition. The conductive Cu15Si4 NW scaffolds ...
• A copper silicide nanofoam current collector for directly grown Si nanowire network and their application as lithium-ion anodes 

  Aminu, Ibrahim Saana; Geaney, Hugh; Imtiaz, Sumair; Adegoke, Temilade Esther; Kapuria, Nilotpal; Collins, Gearoid A.; Ryan, Kevin M. (Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020)

  Silicon nanowires (Si NWs) have been identified as an excellent candidate material for the replacement of graphite in anodes, allowing for a significant boost in the capacity of lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs). Herein, ...

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