Composite Membrane for Sodium Polysulfide Hybrid Redox Flow Batteries

Lehmann, Michelle L.; Self, Ethan C.; Saito, Tomonori; Yang, Guang

doi:10.3390/membranes13080700

Composite Membrane for Sodium Polysulfide Hybrid Redox Flow Batteries

Journal Article · Thu Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2023 · Membranes

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes13080700· OSTI ID:2000369

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Non-aqueous redox flow batteries (NARFBs) using earth-abundant materials, such as sodium and sulfur, are promising long-duration energy storage technologies. NARFBs utilize organic solvents, which enable higher operating voltages and potentially higher energy densities compared with their aqueous counterparts. Despite exciting progress throughout the past decade, the lack of low-cost membranes with adequate ionic conductivity and selectivity remains as one of the major bottlenecks of NARFBs. Here, we developed a composite membrane composed of a thin (<25 µm) Na+-Nafion coating on a porous polypropylene scaffold. The composite membrane significantly improves the electrochemical stability of Na⁺-Nafion against sodium metal, exhibiting stable Na symmetric cell performance for over 2300 h, while Na⁺-Nafion shorted by 445 h. Additionally, the composite membrane demonstrates a higher room temperature storage modulus than the porous polypropylene scaffold and Na⁺-Nafion separately while maintaining high Na⁺ conductivity (0.24 mS/cm at 20 °C). Our method shows that a composite membrane utilizing Na⁺-Nafion is a promising approach for sodium-based hybrid redox flow batteries.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 2000369

Journal Information:: Membranes, Journal Name: Membranes Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 13; ISSN 2077-0375

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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