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Ion‐Selective Microporous Polymer Membranes with Hydrogen‐Bond and Salt‐Bridge Networks for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries
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Rui Tan ,
Dezhi Liu,
Jiaxin Lu,
Xiaochu Wei,
Alberto Alvarez‐Fernandez ,
Chunchun Ye,
Charlotte Breakwell,
Stefan Guldin ,
Anthony R. Kucernak ,
Kim E. Jelfs ,
Nigel P. Brandon,
Neil B. McKeown ,
Qilei Song
Advanced Materials, Volume: 35, Issue: 12
Swansea University Author:
Rui Tan
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DOI (Published version): 10.1002/adma.202210098
Abstract
Redox flow batteries (RFBs) have great potential for long-duration grid-scale energy storage. Ion-conducting membranes are a crucial component in RFBs, allowing charge-carrying ions to transport while preventing the cross-mixing of redox couples. Commercial Nafion membranes are widely used in RFBs,...
| Published in: | Advanced Materials |
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| ISSN: | 0935-9648 1521-4095 |
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Wiley
2023
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67800 |
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Redox flow batteries (RFBs) have great potential for long-duration grid-scale energy storage. Ion-conducting membranes are a crucial component in RFBs, allowing charge-carrying ions to transport while preventing the cross-mixing of redox couples. Commercial Nafion membranes are widely used in RFBs, but their unsatisfactory ionic and molecular selectivity, as well as high costs, limit the performance and the widespread deployment of this technology. To extend the longevity and reduce the cost of RFB systems, inexpensive ion-selective membranes that concurrently deliver low ionic resistance and high selectivity toward redox-active species are highly desired. Here, high-performance RFB membranes are fabricated from blends of carboxylate- and amidoxime-functionalized polymers of intrinsic microporosity, which exploit the beneficial properties of both polymers. The enthalpy-driven formation of cohesive interchain interactions, including hydrogen bonds and salt bridges, facilitates the microscopic miscibility of the blends, while ionizable functional groups within the sub-nanometer pores allow optimization of membrane ion-transport functions. The resulting microporous membranes demonstrate fast cation conduction with low crossover of redox-active molecular species, enabling improved power ratings and reduced capacity fade in aqueous RFBs using anthraquinone and ferrocyanide as redox couples. |
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| Keywords: |
energy storage; ion-conducting membranes; microporous polymers; redox flow batteries |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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European Research Council
European Union's Horizon 2020. Grant Numbers: 851272, ERC-StG-PE8-NanoMMES, 758370
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Grant Numbers: EP/V047078/1, EP/W033356/1, EP/P024807/1, EP/R035105/1
EPSRC. Grant Numbers: CAM-IES, EP/P007767/1
UK Energy Storage Research Hub
China Scholarship Council |
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12 |