Redox Flow Batteries - ACS Publications - American Chemical Society

Redox Flow Batteries - ACS Publications - American Chemical Society

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The need to develop energy storage technologies for grid distribution has given a thrust to flow batteries. Such flow batteries are attractive to store electricity generated through solar cells and wind turbines. Advantages of flow batteries include the inherent scalability of their capacity (i.e., through simple modulation of the size of the tanks), and long-term storage of charge.

To-date both organic and inorganic redox couples have been evaluated to explore their feasibility in redox flow batteries. This virtual issue highlights recent papers published in three sister journals, ACS Energy Letters, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces and Chemistry of Materials. Several important technological aspects of flow batteries are the focus of these 24 papers, and include research into new electrolytes (the anolytes and catholytes) with the goal of increasing the volumetric capacity and cyclability of the cell, tailoring the nature of the membrane or porous separator, and addressing critical aspects of operation, such as osmotic pressure and water/ion permeation across the membrane.

Editorial

Read the Editorial, Redox Flow Batteries, by authors Prashant V. Kamat (Editor-in-Chief, ACS Energy Letters), Kirk S. Schanze (Editor-in-Chief, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces), and Jillian M. Buriak (Editor-in-Chief, Chemistry of Materials)

Articles

Aqueous 2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl Catholytes for a High-Capacity and High Current Density Oxygen-Insensitive Hybrid-Flow Battery
Jan Winsberg, Christian Stolze, Almut Schwenke, Simon Muench, Martin D. Hager, and Ulrich S. Schubert*
ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2 (2), pp 411–416
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00655

Balancing Osmotic Pressure of Electrolytes for Nanoporous Membrane Vanadium Redox Flow Battery with a Draw Solute
Ligen Yan, Dan Li, Shuaiqiang Li, Zhi Xu, Junhang Dong, Wenheng Jing*, and Weihong Xing
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8 (51), pp 35289–35297
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b12068

Tuning the Perfluorosulfonic Acid Membrane Morphology for Vanadium Redox-Flow Batteries
M. Vijayakumar, Qingtao Luo, Ralph Lloyd, Zimin Nie, Xiaoliang Wei, Bin Li, Vincent Sprenkle, J-David Londono, Murat Unlu, and Wei Wang*
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8 (50), pp 34327–34334
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b10744

Highly Reversible Diphenyl Trisulfide Catholyte for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries
Min Wu, Amruth Bhargav, Yi Cui, Amanda Siegel, Mangilal Agarwal, Ying Ma*, and Yongzhu Fu*
ACS Energy Lett., 2016, 1 (6), pp 1221–1226
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00533

TEMPO/Phenazine Combi-Molecule: A Redox-Active Material for Symmetric Aqueous Redox-Flow Batteries
Jan Winsberg, Christian Stolze, Simon Muench, Ferenc Liedl, Martin D. Hager, and Ulrich S. Schubert*
ACS Energy Lett., 2016, 1 (5), pp 976–980
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00413

Impact of Backbone Tether Length and Structure on the Electrochemical Performance of Viologen Redox Active Polymers
Mark Burgess, Etienne Chénard, Kenneth Hernández-Burgos, Gavvalapalli Nagarjuna, Rajeev S. Assary, Jingshu Hui, Jeffrey S. Moore*, and Joaquín Rodríguez-López*
Chem. Mater., 2016, 28 (20), pp 7362–7374
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b02825

A High-Current, Stable Nonaqueous Organic Redox Flow Battery
Xiaoliang Wei*, Wentao Duan, Jinhua Huang, Lu Zhang, Bin Li, David Reed, Wu Xu, Vincent Sprenkle, and Wei Wang*
ACS Energy Lett., 2016, 1 (4), pp 705–711
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00255

High Energy Efficiency and Stability for Photoassisted Aqueous Lithium–Iodine Redox Batteries
Georgios Nikiforidis, Keisuke Tajima, and Hye Ryung Byon*
ACS Energy Lett., 2016, 1 (4), pp 806–813
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00359

High Performance Hybrid Energy Storage with Potassium Ferricyanide Redox Electrolyte
Juhan Lee, Soumyadip Choudhury, Daniel Weingarth, Daekyu Kim, and Volker Presser*
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8 (36), pp 23676–23687
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b06264

pH-Tuning a Solar Redox Flow Battery for Integrated Energy Conversion and Storage
William D. McCulloch, Mingzhe Yu, and Yiying Wu*
ACS Energy Lett., 2016, 1 (3), pp 578–582
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00296

All-Soluble All-Iron Aqueous Redox-Flow Battery
Ke Gong, Fei Xu, Jonathan B. Grunewald, Xiaoya Ma, Yun Zhao, Shuang Gu*, and Yushan Yan*
ACS Energy Lett., 2016, 1 (1), pp 89–93
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00049

ZrO2-Nanoparticle-Modified Graphite Felt: Bifunctional Effects on Vanadium Flow Batteries
Haipeng Zhou, Yi Shen, Jingyu Xi*, Xinping Qiu*, and Liquan Chen
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8 (24), pp 15369–15378
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b03761

Poly(boron-dipyrromethene)—A Redox-Active Polymer Class for Polymer Redox-Flow Batteries
Jan Winsberg, Tino Hagemann, Simon Muench, Christian Friebe, Bernhard Häupler, Tobias Janoschka, Sabine Morgenstern, Martin D. Hager, and Ulrich S. Schubert*
Chem. Mater., 2016, 28 (10), pp 3401–3405
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b00640

Tuning the Stability of Organic Active Materials for Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries via Reversible, Electrochemically Mediated Li+ Coordination
Emily V. Carino, Jakub Staszak-Jirkovsky, Rajeev S. Assary, Larry A. Curtiss, Nenad M. Markovic, and Fikile R. Brushett*
Chem. Mater., 2016, 28 (8), pp 2529–2539
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b04053

High-Energy Density Redox Flow Lithium Battery with Unprecedented Voltage Efficiency
Feng Pan, Qizhao Huang, Hui Huang, and Qing Wang*
Chem. Mater., 2016, 28 (7), pp 2052–2057
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b04558

Solid Suspension Flow Batteries Using Earth Abundant Materials
Syed Mubeen*, Young-si Jun, Joun Lee, and Eric W. McFarland*
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8 (3), pp 1759–1765
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b09515

An Ambient Temperature Molten Sodium–Vanadium Battery with Aqueous Flowing Catholyte
Caihong Liu, Jack S. Shamie, Leon L. Shaw*, and Vincent L. Sprenkle
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8 (2), pp 1545–1552
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b11503

Supramolecular Perylene Bisimide-Polysulfide Gel Networks as Nanostructured Redox Mediators in Dissolved Polysulfide Lithium–Sulfur Batteries
Peter D. Frischmann, Laura C. H. Gerber, Sean E. Doris, Erica Y. Tsai, Frank Y. Fan, Xiaohui Qu, Anubhav Jain, Kristin A. Persson, Yet-Ming Chiang, and Brett A. Helms*
Chem. Mater., 2015, 27 (19), pp 6765–6770
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02955

A Highly Concentrated Catholyte Enabled by a Low-Melting-Point Ferrocene Derivative
Guangtao Cong, Yucun Zhou, Zhejun Li, and Yi-Chun Lu*
ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2 (4), pp 869–875
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00115

A Neutral pH Aqueous Organic–Organometallic Redox Flow Battery with Extremely High Capacity Retention
Eugene S. Beh, Diana De Porcellinis, Rebecca L. Gracia, Kay T. Xia, Roy G. Gordon*, and Michael J. Aziz*
ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2 (3), pp 639–644
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00019

Redox Targeting of Prussian Blue: Toward Low-Cost and High Energy Density Redox Flow Battery and Solar Rechargeable Battery
Li Fan, Chuankun Jia, Yun Guang Zhu, and Qing Wang*
ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2 (3), pp 615–621
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00667

Activated Carbon Fiber Paper Based Electrodes with High Electrocatalytic Activity for Vanadium Flow Batteries with Improved Power Density
Tao Liu, Xianfeng Li*, Chi Xu, and Huamin Zhang*
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2017, 9 (5), pp 4626–4633
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b14478

Durable and Efficient PTFE Sandwiched SPEEK Membrane for Vanadium Flow Batteries
Lihong Yu and Jingyu Xi*
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2016, 8 (36), pp 23425–23430
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b07782

“Wine-Dark Sea” in an Organic Flow Battery: Storing Negative Charge in 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole Radicals Leads to Improved Cyclability
Wentao Duan, Jinhua Huang, Jeffrey A. Kowalski, Ilya A. Shkrob, M. Vijayakumar, Eric Walter, Baofei Pan, Zheng Yang, Jarrod D. Milshtein, Bin Li, Chen Liao, Zhengcheng Zhang, Wei Wang, Jun Liu, Jeffery S. Moore, Fikile R. Brushett, Lu Zhang*, and Xiaoliang Wei*
ACS Energy Lett., 2017, 2 (5), pp 1156–1161
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00261