Limited Accessibility to Surface Area Generated by Thermal Pretreatment of Electrodes Reduces Its Impact on Redox Flow Battery Performance

Greco, Katharine V.; Bonesteel, Jude K.; Chanut, Nicolas; Tai-Chieh Wan, Charles; Chiang, Yet-Ming; Brushett, Fikile R.

doi:10.1021/acsaem.1c01980

Limited Accessibility to Surface Area Generated by Thermal Pretreatment of Electrodes Reduces Its Impact on Redox Flow Battery Performance

Journal Article · 17 November 2021 · ACS Applied Energy Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c01980· OSTI ID:1981968

^[1]; Bonesteel, Jude K. ^[1]; Chanut, Nicolas ^[2]; ^[3]; ^[4]; ^[3]

Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
MultiScale Materials Science for Energy and Environment, CNRS/MIT/Aix-Marseille University Joint, Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States; Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
Department of Material Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States

Not provided.

Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1981968

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Energy Materials, Vol. 4, Issue 12; ISSN 2574-0962

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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