Extending the Lifetime of Organic Flow Batteries via Redox State Management.

Autor:	Goulet MA; Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02138 , United States., Tong L; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02138 , United States., Pollack DA; Department of Physics , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02138 , United States., Tabor DP; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02138 , United States., Odom SA; Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02138 , United States.; Department of Chemistry , University of Kentucky , Lexington , Kentucky 40506 , United States., Aspuru-Guzik A; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02138 , United States., Kwan EE; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02138 , United States., Gordon RG; Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02138 , United States.; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02138 , United States., Aziz MJ; Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts 02138 , United States.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Journal of the American Chemical Society [J Am Chem Soc] 2019 May 22; Vol. 141 (20), pp. 8014-8019. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Apr 26.
DOI:	10.1021/jacs.8b13295
Abstrakt:	Redox flow batteries based on quinone-bearing aqueous electrolytes have emerged as promising systems for energy storage from intermittent renewable sources. The lifetime of these batteries is limited by quinone stability. Here, we confirm that 2,6-dihydroxyanthrahydroquinone tends to form an anthrone intermediate that is vulnerable to subsequent irreversible dimerization. We demonstrate quantitatively that this decomposition pathway is responsible for the loss of battery capacity. Computational studies indicate that the driving force for anthrone formation is greater for anthraquinones with lower reduction potentials. We show that the decomposition can be substantially mitigated. We demonstrate that conditions minimizing anthrone formation and avoiding anthrone dimerization slow the capacity loss rate by over an order of magnitude. We anticipate that this mitigation strategy readily extends to other anthraquinone-based flow batteries and is thus an important step toward realizing renewable electricity storage through long-lived organic flow batteries.
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