A Water-Miscible Quinone Flow Battery with High Volumetric Capacity and Energy Density
Abstract
A water-miscible anthraquinone with polyethylene glycol (PEG)-based solubilizing groups is introduced as the redox-active molecule in a negative electrolyte (negolyte) for aqueous redox flow batteries, exhibiting the highest volumetric capacity among aqueous organic negolytes. We synthesized and screened a series of PEG-substituted anthraquinones (PEGAQs) and carefully studied one of its isomers, namely, 1,8-bis(2-(2-(2-hydroxyethoxy)ethoxy)ethoxy)anthracene-9,10-dione (AQ-1,8-3E-OH), which has high electrochemical reversibility and is completely miscible in water of any pH. Here, a negolyte containing 1.5 M AQ-1,8-3E-OH, when paired with a ferrocyanide-based positive electrolyte across an inexpensive, nonfluorinated permselective polymer membrane at pH 7, exhibits an open-circuit potential of 1.0 V, a volumetric capacity of 80.4 Ah/L, and an energy density of 25.2 Wh/L.
- Authors:
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- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1597276
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AR0000767; AC05-76RL01830; DGE1144152; DGE1745303; 428977
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Energy Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2380-8195
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; Potassium; Electrical properties; Energy density; Batteries; Electrolytes
Citation Formats
Jin, Shijian, Jing, Yan, Kwabi, David G., Ji, Yunlong, Tong, Liuchuan, De Porcellinis, Diana, Goulet, Marc-Antoni, Pollack, Daniel A., Gordon, Roy G., and Aziz, Michael J. A Water-Miscible Quinone Flow Battery with High Volumetric Capacity and Energy Density. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00739.
Jin, Shijian, Jing, Yan, Kwabi, David G., Ji, Yunlong, Tong, Liuchuan, De Porcellinis, Diana, Goulet, Marc-Antoni, Pollack, Daniel A., Gordon, Roy G., & Aziz, Michael J. A Water-Miscible Quinone Flow Battery with High Volumetric Capacity and Energy Density. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00739
Jin, Shijian, Jing, Yan, Kwabi, David G., Ji, Yunlong, Tong, Liuchuan, De Porcellinis, Diana, Goulet, Marc-Antoni, Pollack, Daniel A., Gordon, Roy G., and Aziz, Michael J. Wed .
"A Water-Miscible Quinone Flow Battery with High Volumetric Capacity and Energy Density". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00739. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1597276.
@article{osti_1597276,
title = {A Water-Miscible Quinone Flow Battery with High Volumetric Capacity and Energy Density},
author = {Jin, Shijian and Jing, Yan and Kwabi, David G. and Ji, Yunlong and Tong, Liuchuan and De Porcellinis, Diana and Goulet, Marc-Antoni and Pollack, Daniel A. and Gordon, Roy G. and Aziz, Michael J.},
abstractNote = {A water-miscible anthraquinone with polyethylene glycol (PEG)-based solubilizing groups is introduced as the redox-active molecule in a negative electrolyte (negolyte) for aqueous redox flow batteries, exhibiting the highest volumetric capacity among aqueous organic negolytes. We synthesized and screened a series of PEG-substituted anthraquinones (PEGAQs) and carefully studied one of its isomers, namely, 1,8-bis(2-(2-(2-hydroxyethoxy)ethoxy)ethoxy)anthracene-9,10-dione (AQ-1,8-3E-OH), which has high electrochemical reversibility and is completely miscible in water of any pH. Here, a negolyte containing 1.5 M AQ-1,8-3E-OH, when paired with a ferrocyanide-based positive electrolyte across an inexpensive, nonfluorinated permselective polymer membrane at pH 7, exhibits an open-circuit potential of 1.0 V, a volumetric capacity of 80.4 Ah/L, and an energy density of 25.2 Wh/L.},
doi = {10.1021/acsenergylett.9b00739},
journal = {ACS Energy Letters},
number = 6,
volume = 4,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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