Tunable Oxygen Functional Groups as Electrocatalysts on Graphite Felt Surfaces for All‐Vanadium Flow Batteries
Abstract
Abstract A dual oxidative approach using O 2 plasma followed by treatment with H 2 O 2 to impart oxygen functional groups onto the surface of a graphite felt electrode. When used as electrodes for an all‐vanadium redox flow battery (VRB) system, the energy efficiency of the cell is enhanced by 8.2 % at a current density of 150 mA cm −2 compared with one oxidized by thermal treatment in air. More importantly, by varying the oxidative techniques, the amount and type of oxygen groups was tailored and their effects were elucidated. It was found that O−C=O groups improve the cells performance whereas the C−O and C=O groups degrade it. The reason for the increased performance was found to be a reduction in the cell overpotential after functionalization of the graphite felt electrode. This work reveals a route for functionalizing carbon electrodes to improve the performance of VRB cells. This approach can lower the cost of VRB cells and pave the way for more commercially viable stationary energy storage systems that can be used for intermittent renewable energy storage.
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999 Richland WA 99352 USA
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- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1401435
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 57558; AC05-76L01830
- Resource Type:
- Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ChemSusChem
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: ChemSusChem Journal Volume: 9 Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1864-5631
- Publisher:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Estevez, Luis, Reed, David, Nie, Zimin, Schwarz, Ashleigh M., Nandasiri, Manjula I., Kizewski, James P., Wang, Wei, Thomsen, Edwin, Liu, Jun, Zhang, Ji‐Guang, Sprenkle, Vincent, and Li, Bin. Tunable Oxygen Functional Groups as Electrocatalysts on Graphite Felt Surfaces for All‐Vanadium Flow Batteries. Germany: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1002/cssc.201600198.
Estevez, Luis, Reed, David, Nie, Zimin, Schwarz, Ashleigh M., Nandasiri, Manjula I., Kizewski, James P., Wang, Wei, Thomsen, Edwin, Liu, Jun, Zhang, Ji‐Guang, Sprenkle, Vincent, & Li, Bin. Tunable Oxygen Functional Groups as Electrocatalysts on Graphite Felt Surfaces for All‐Vanadium Flow Batteries. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201600198
Estevez, Luis, Reed, David, Nie, Zimin, Schwarz, Ashleigh M., Nandasiri, Manjula I., Kizewski, James P., Wang, Wei, Thomsen, Edwin, Liu, Jun, Zhang, Ji‐Guang, Sprenkle, Vincent, and Li, Bin. Tue .
"Tunable Oxygen Functional Groups as Electrocatalysts on Graphite Felt Surfaces for All‐Vanadium Flow Batteries". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201600198.
@article{osti_1401435,
title = {Tunable Oxygen Functional Groups as Electrocatalysts on Graphite Felt Surfaces for All‐Vanadium Flow Batteries},
author = {Estevez, Luis and Reed, David and Nie, Zimin and Schwarz, Ashleigh M. and Nandasiri, Manjula I. and Kizewski, James P. and Wang, Wei and Thomsen, Edwin and Liu, Jun and Zhang, Ji‐Guang and Sprenkle, Vincent and Li, Bin},
abstractNote = {Abstract A dual oxidative approach using O 2 plasma followed by treatment with H 2 O 2 to impart oxygen functional groups onto the surface of a graphite felt electrode. When used as electrodes for an all‐vanadium redox flow battery (VRB) system, the energy efficiency of the cell is enhanced by 8.2 % at a current density of 150 mA cm −2 compared with one oxidized by thermal treatment in air. More importantly, by varying the oxidative techniques, the amount and type of oxygen groups was tailored and their effects were elucidated. It was found that O−C=O groups improve the cells performance whereas the C−O and C=O groups degrade it. The reason for the increased performance was found to be a reduction in the cell overpotential after functionalization of the graphite felt electrode. This work reveals a route for functionalizing carbon electrodes to improve the performance of VRB cells. This approach can lower the cost of VRB cells and pave the way for more commercially viable stationary energy storage systems that can be used for intermittent renewable energy storage.},
doi = {10.1002/cssc.201600198},
journal = {ChemSusChem},
number = 12,
volume = 9,
place = {Germany},
year = {Tue May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue May 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.201600198
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