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Agarwal H, Roy E, Singh N, Klusener PA, Stephens RM, Zhou QT. Electrode Treatments for Redox Flow Batteries: Translating Our Understanding from Vanadium to Aqueous-Organic. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2024; 11:e2307209. [PMID: 37973559 PMCID: PMC10767411 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202307209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
Abstract
Redox flow batteries (RFBs) are a promising technology for long-duration energy storage; but they suffer from inefficiencies in part due to the overvoltages at the electrode surface. In this work, more than 70 electrode treatments are reviewed that are previously shown to reduce the overvoltages and improve performance for vanadium RFBs (VRFBs), the most commercialized RFB technology. However, identifying treatments that improve performance the most and whether they are industrially implementable is challenging. This study attempts to address this challenge by comparing treatments under similar operating conditions and accounting for the treatment process complexity. The different treatments are compared at laboratory and industrial scale based on criteria for VRFB performance, treatment stability, economic feasibility, and ease of industrial implementation. Thermal, plasma, electrochemical oxidation, CO2 treatments, as well as Bi, Ag, and Cu catalysts loaded on electrodes are identified as the most promising for adoption in large scale VRFBs. The similarity in electrode treatments for aqueous-organic RFBs (AORFBs) and VRFBs is also identified. The need of standardization in RFBs testing along with fundamental studies to understand charge transfer reactions in redox active species used in RFBs moving forward is emphasized.
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- Harsh Agarwal
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Catalysis Science and Technology InstituteUniversity of Michigan Ann ArborAnn ArborMI48109‐2136USA
- Shell International Exploration and Production Inc.3333 Highway 6 SouthHoustonTX77082USA
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- Shell Global Solutions International B.V. Energy Transition Campus AmsterdamGrasweg 31Amsterdam1031 HWThe Netherlands
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Catalysis Science and Technology InstituteUniversity of Michigan Ann ArborAnn ArborMI48109‐2136USA
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- Shell Global Solutions International B.V. Energy Transition Campus AmsterdamGrasweg 31Amsterdam1031 HWThe Netherlands
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- Shell International Exploration and Production Inc.3333 Highway 6 SouthHoustonTX77082USA
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- Shell International Exploration and Production Inc.3333 Highway 6 SouthHoustonTX77082USA
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Performance enhancement of alkaline organic redox flow battery using catalyst including titanium oxide and Ketjenblack. KOREAN J CHEM ENG 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s11814-021-1040-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Gao F, Cai X, Huang C. The impact of modified electrode on the performance of an DHAQ/ K4Fe(CN)6 redox flow battery. Electrochim Acta 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2021.138847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Nirosha Yalamandala B, Shen W, Min S, Chiang W, Chang S, Hu S. Advances in Functional Metal‐Organic Frameworks Based On‐Demand Drug Delivery Systems for Tumor Therapeutics. ADVANCED NANOBIOMED RESEARCH 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/anbr.202100014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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- Bhanu Nirosha Yalamandala
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu 300 Taiwan
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu 300 Taiwan
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu 300 Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering National Chung Hsing University Taichung 402 Taiwan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Hsinchu MacKay Memorial Hospital Hsinchu 300 Taiwan
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Sciences National Tsing Hua University Hsinchu 300 Taiwan
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A quantitative evaluation of computational methods to accelerate the study of alloxazine-derived electroactive compounds for energy storage. Sci Rep 2021; 11:4089. [PMID: 33603045 PMCID: PMC7892830 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-83605-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Alloxazines are a promising class of organic electroactive compounds for application in aqueous redox flow batteries (ARFBs), whose redox properties need to be tuned further for higher performance. High-throughput computational screening (HTCS) enables rational and time-efficient study of energy storage compounds. We compared the performance of computational chemistry methods, including the force field based molecular mechanics, semi-empirical quantum mechanics, density functional tight binding, and density functional theory, on the basis of their accuracy and computational cost in predicting the redox potentials of alloxazines. Various energy-based descriptors, including the redox reaction energies and the frontier orbital energies of the reactant and product molecules, were considered. We found that the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy of the reactant molecules is the best performing chemical descriptor for alloxazines, which is in contrast to other classes of energy storage compounds, such as quinones that we reported earlier. Notably, we present a flexible in silico approach to accelerate both the singly and the HTCS studies, therewithal considering the level of accuracy versus measured electrochemical data, which is readily applicable for the discovery of alloxazine-derived organic compounds for energy storage in ARFBs.
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Rohland P, Schreyer K, Hager MD, Schubert US. Anthraquinone-2,6-disulfamidic acid: an anolyte with low decomposition rates at elevated temperatures. RSC Adv 2021; 11:38759-38764. [PMID: 35493233 PMCID: PMC9044267 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra05545c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 11/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A new anthraquinone based anolyte material for redox flow batteries revealed an extraordinarily high stability at elevated electrolyte temperatures.
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- Philip Rohland
- Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstraße 10, 07743 Jena, Germany
- Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 7a, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstraße 10, 07743 Jena, Germany
- Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 7a, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstraße 10, 07743 Jena, Germany
- Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 7a, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Laboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstraße 10, 07743 Jena, Germany
- Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 7a, 07743 Jena, Germany
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Lee W, Park G, Chang D, Kwon Y. The effects of temperature and membrane thickness on the performance of aqueous alkaline redox flow batteries using napthoquinone and ferrocyanide as redox couple. KOREAN J CHEM ENG 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11814-020-0669-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Zhang Q, Khetan A, Er S. Comparison of computational chemistry methods for the discovery of quinone-based electroactive compounds for energy storage. Sci Rep 2020; 10:22149. [PMID: 33335155 PMCID: PMC7746720 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79153-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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High-throughput computational screening (HTCS) is a powerful approach for the rational and time-efficient design of electroactive compounds. The effectiveness of HTCS is dependent on accuracy and speed at which the performance descriptors can be estimated for possibly millions of candidate compounds. Here, a systematic evaluation of computational methods, including force field (FF), semi-empirical quantum mechanics (SEQM), density functional based tight binding (DFTB), and density functional theory (DFT), is performed on the basis of their accuracy in predicting the redox potentials of redox-active organic compounds. Geometry optimizations at low-level theories followed by single point energy (SPE) DFT calculations that include an implicit solvation model are found to offer equipollent accuracy as the high-level DFT methods, albeit at significantly lower computational costs. Effects of implicit solvation on molecular geometries and SPEs, and their overall effects on the prediction accuracy of redox potentials are analyzed in view of computational cost versus prediction accuracy, which outlines the best choice of methods corresponding to a desired level of accuracy. The modular computational approach is applicable for accelerating the virtual studies on functional quinones and the respective discovery of candidate compounds for energy storage.
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- Qi Zhang
- DIFFER-Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, De Zaale 20, 5612 AJ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.,CCER-Center for Computational Energy Research, De Zaale 20, 5612 AJ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.,Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- DIFFER-Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, De Zaale 20, 5612 AJ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.,CCER-Center for Computational Energy Research, De Zaale 20, 5612 AJ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- DIFFER-Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, De Zaale 20, 5612 AJ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. .,CCER-Center for Computational Energy Research, De Zaale 20, 5612 AJ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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LI R, SATO Y. Recent Development of Carbon-based Electrode for Vanadium Redox Flow Battery. ELECTROCHEMISTRY 2020. [DOI: 10.5796/electrochemistry.20-64076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- Risheng LI
- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba
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- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba
- Research Institute for Energy Conservation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
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Lee W, Jung M, Serhiichuk D, Noh C, Gupta G, Harms C, Kwon Y, Henkensmeier D. Layered composite membranes based on porous PVDF coated with a thin, dense PBI layer for vanadium redox flow batteries. J Memb Sci 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2019.117333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Effect of temperature on the performance of aqueous redox flow battery using carboxylic acid functionalized alloxazine and ferrocyanide redox couple. KOREAN J CHEM ENG 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s11814-019-0374-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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