The lightest organic radical cation for charge storage in redox flow batteries
Abstract
In advanced electrical grids of the future, electrochemically rechargeable fluids of high energy density will capture the power generated from intermittent sources like solar and wind. To meet this outstanding technological demand there is a need to understand the fundamental limits and interplay of electrochemical potential, stability, and solubility in low-weight redox-active molecules. By generating a combinatorial set of 1,4-dimethoxybenzene derivatives with different arrangements of substituents, we discovered a mini-malistic structure that combines exceptional long-term stability in its oxidized form and a record-breaking intrinsic capacity of 161 mAh/g. The nonaqueous redox flow battery has been demonstrated that uses this molecule as a catholyte material and operated stably for 100 charge/discharge cycles. Furthermore, the observed stability trends are rationalized by mechanistic considerations of the reaction pathways.
- Authors:
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1340007
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Reports
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 25 ENERGY STORAGE; redox active molecules; radical cation; flow battery; dimethoxybenzene; electrochemistry
Citation Formats
Huang, Jinhua, Pan, Baofei, Duan, Wentao, Wei, Xiaoliang, Assary, Rajeev S., Su, Liang, Brushett, Fikile R., Cheng, Lei, Liao, Chen, Ferrandon, Magali S., Wang, Wei, Zhang, Zhengcheng, Burrell, Anthony K., Curtiss, Larry A., Shkrob, Ilya A., Moore, Jeffrey S., and Zhang, Lu. The lightest organic radical cation for charge storage in redox flow batteries. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.1038/srep32102.
Huang, Jinhua, Pan, Baofei, Duan, Wentao, Wei, Xiaoliang, Assary, Rajeev S., Su, Liang, Brushett, Fikile R., Cheng, Lei, Liao, Chen, Ferrandon, Magali S., Wang, Wei, Zhang, Zhengcheng, Burrell, Anthony K., Curtiss, Larry A., Shkrob, Ilya A., Moore, Jeffrey S., & Zhang, Lu. The lightest organic radical cation for charge storage in redox flow batteries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep32102
Huang, Jinhua, Pan, Baofei, Duan, Wentao, Wei, Xiaoliang, Assary, Rajeev S., Su, Liang, Brushett, Fikile R., Cheng, Lei, Liao, Chen, Ferrandon, Magali S., Wang, Wei, Zhang, Zhengcheng, Burrell, Anthony K., Curtiss, Larry A., Shkrob, Ilya A., Moore, Jeffrey S., and Zhang, Lu. Thu .
"The lightest organic radical cation for charge storage in redox flow batteries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep32102. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1340007.
@article{osti_1340007,
title = {The lightest organic radical cation for charge storage in redox flow batteries},
author = {Huang, Jinhua and Pan, Baofei and Duan, Wentao and Wei, Xiaoliang and Assary, Rajeev S. and Su, Liang and Brushett, Fikile R. and Cheng, Lei and Liao, Chen and Ferrandon, Magali S. and Wang, Wei and Zhang, Zhengcheng and Burrell, Anthony K. and Curtiss, Larry A. and Shkrob, Ilya A. and Moore, Jeffrey S. and Zhang, Lu},
abstractNote = {In advanced electrical grids of the future, electrochemically rechargeable fluids of high energy density will capture the power generated from intermittent sources like solar and wind. To meet this outstanding technological demand there is a need to understand the fundamental limits and interplay of electrochemical potential, stability, and solubility in low-weight redox-active molecules. By generating a combinatorial set of 1,4-dimethoxybenzene derivatives with different arrangements of substituents, we discovered a mini-malistic structure that combines exceptional long-term stability in its oxidized form and a record-breaking intrinsic capacity of 161 mAh/g. The nonaqueous redox flow battery has been demonstrated that uses this molecule as a catholyte material and operated stably for 100 charge/discharge cycles. Furthermore, the observed stability trends are rationalized by mechanistic considerations of the reaction pathways.},
doi = {10.1038/srep32102},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = ,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Thu Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}
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