Membrane-Free Zn/MnO2 Flow Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage
Abstract
The traditional Zn/MnO2 battery has attracted great interest due to its low cost, high safety, high output voltage, and environmental friendliness. However, it remains a big challenge to achieve long-term stability, mainly owing to the poor reversibility of the cathode reaction. Different from previous studies where the cathode redox reaction of MnO2/MnOOH is in solid state with limited reversibility, in this work a new aqueous rechargeable Zn/MnO2 flow battery is constructed with dissolution–precipitation reactions in both cathodes (Mn2+/MnO2) and anodes (Zn2+/Zn), which allow mixing of anolyte and catholyte into only one electrolyte and remove the requirement for an ion selective membrane for cost reduction. Impressively, this new battery exhibits a high discharge voltage of ≈1.78 V, good rate capability (10C discharge), and excellent cycling stability (1000 cycles without decay) at the areal capacity ranging from 0.5 to 2 mAh cm-2. More importantly, this battery can be readily enlarged to a bench scale flow cell of 1.2 Ah with good capacity retention of 89.7% at the 500th cycle, displaying great potential for large-scale energy storage.
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[5]
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States); National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing (People's Republic of China)
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Beijing Key Lab. of Advanced Chemical Energy Storage Technologies and Materials, Beijing (People's Republic of China)
- National Center for Nanoscience and Technology Beijing (People's Republic of China)
- Stanford Univ., CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC); Beijing Natural Science Foundation; Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1605183
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1596386
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; 21722102; 51672053; 21303029; 2182087; 2016036
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Energy Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; aqueous flow batteries; dissolution–precipitation reactions; large-scale energy storage; Mn2+/MnO2 transformation; rechargeable Zn/MnO2
Citation Formats
Li, Guodong, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Hao, Gong, Yongji, Shi, Feifei, Wang, Jiangyan, Zhang, Rufan, Chen, Guangxu, Jin, Yang, Wu, Tong, Tang, Zhiyong, and Cui, Yi. Membrane-Free Zn/MnO2 Flow Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201902085.
Li, Guodong, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Hao, Gong, Yongji, Shi, Feifei, Wang, Jiangyan, Zhang, Rufan, Chen, Guangxu, Jin, Yang, Wu, Tong, Tang, Zhiyong, & Cui, Yi. Membrane-Free Zn/MnO2 Flow Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201902085
Li, Guodong, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Hao, Gong, Yongji, Shi, Feifei, Wang, Jiangyan, Zhang, Rufan, Chen, Guangxu, Jin, Yang, Wu, Tong, Tang, Zhiyong, and Cui, Yi. Fri .
"Membrane-Free Zn/MnO2 Flow Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201902085. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1605183.
@article{osti_1605183,
title = {Membrane-Free Zn/MnO2 Flow Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage},
author = {Li, Guodong and Chen, Wei and Zhang, Hao and Gong, Yongji and Shi, Feifei and Wang, Jiangyan and Zhang, Rufan and Chen, Guangxu and Jin, Yang and Wu, Tong and Tang, Zhiyong and Cui, Yi},
abstractNote = {The traditional Zn/MnO2 battery has attracted great interest due to its low cost, high safety, high output voltage, and environmental friendliness. However, it remains a big challenge to achieve long-term stability, mainly owing to the poor reversibility of the cathode reaction. Different from previous studies where the cathode redox reaction of MnO2/MnOOH is in solid state with limited reversibility, in this work a new aqueous rechargeable Zn/MnO2 flow battery is constructed with dissolution–precipitation reactions in both cathodes (Mn2+/MnO2) and anodes (Zn2+/Zn), which allow mixing of anolyte and catholyte into only one electrolyte and remove the requirement for an ion selective membrane for cost reduction. Impressively, this new battery exhibits a high discharge voltage of ≈1.78 V, good rate capability (10C discharge), and excellent cycling stability (1000 cycles without decay) at the areal capacity ranging from 0.5 to 2 mAh cm-2. More importantly, this battery can be readily enlarged to a bench scale flow cell of 1.2 Ah with good capacity retention of 89.7% at the 500th cycle, displaying great potential for large-scale energy storage.},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.201902085},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 9,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {1}
}
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