Emerging chemistries and molecular designs for flow batteries

L Zhang, R Feng, W Wang, G Yu - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Redox flow batteries are a critical technology for large-scale energy storage, offering the
promising characteristics of high scalability, design flexibility and decoupled energy and …

Review of the development of first‐generation redox flow batteries: iron‐chromium system

C Sun, H Zhang - ChemSusChem, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The iron‐chromium redox flow battery (ICRFB) is considered the first true RFB and utilizes
low‐cost, abundant iron and chromium chlorides as redox‐active materials, making it one of …

Multi‐Ion Engineering Strategies toward High Performance Aqueous Zinc‐Based Batteries

J Yue, S Chen, J Yang, S Li, G Tan, R Zhao… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As alternatives to batteries with organic electrolytes, aqueous zinc‐based batteries (AZBs)
have been intensively studied. However, the sluggish kinetics, side reactions, structural …

Ionic-nanophase hybridization of nafion by supramolecular patching for enhanced proton selectivity in redox flow batteries

L Zhai, YL Zhu, G Wang, H He, F Wang, F Jiang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Nafion, as the mostly used proton exchange membrane material in vanadium redox flow
batteries (VRFBs), encounters serious vanadium permeation problems due to the large size …

Crystallizing Self‐Standing Covalent Organic Framework Membranes for Ultrafast Proton Transport in Flow Batteries

Y Wu, Y Wang, D Zhang, F Xu, L Dai, K Qu… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) display great potential to be assembled into proton
conductive membranes for their uniform and controllable pore structure, yet constructing self …

Efficient and durable vanadium flow batteries enabled by high-performance fluorinated poly (aryl piperidinium) membranes

T Ban, M Guo, Y Wang, J Ma, X Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Ion exchange membranes (IEMs) have been extensively investigated as diaphragm
materials for vanadium flow batteries (VFBs). However, current IEMs made of polymers still …

Redox flow batteries: Recent development in main components, emerging technologies, diagnostic techniques, large-scale applications, and challenges and barriers

AG Olabi, MA Allam, MA Abdelkareem, TD Deepa… - Batteries, 2023 - mdpi.com
Redox flow batteries represent a captivating class of electrochemical energy systems that
are gaining prominence in large-scale storage applications. These batteries offer …

Self-assembled construction of ion-selective nanobarriers in electrolyte membranes for redox flow batteries

L Zhai, S Chai, T Li, H Li, S He, H He, X Li, L Wu… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ion-conducting membranes (ICMs) with high selectivity are important components in redox
flow batteries. However it is still a challenge to break the trade-off between ion conductivity …

Rechargeable aqueous zinc–halogen batteries: Fundamental mechanisms, research issues, and future perspectives

L She, H Cheng, Z Yuan, Z Shen, Q Wu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aqueous zinc–halogen batteries (AZHBs) have emerged as promising candidates for
energy storage applications due to their high security features and low cost. However …

Supramolecular Sidechain Topology Mediated Pseudo‐Nanophase Separation Engineering for High‐Performance Redox Flow Battery Membranes

P **ong, A Li, S **ao, Y Jiang… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pseudo‐nanophase separation enabled by supramolecular‐interaction‐grafted sidechains
proves a promising alternative for constructing high‐performance commercially viable …