Small organic molecule based flow battery

Huskinson, Brian; Marshak, Michael; Aziz, Michael J.; Gordon, Roy G.; Betley, Theodore A.; Aspuru-Guzik, Alan; Er, Suleyman; Suh, Changwon

Title: Small organic molecule based flow battery

Patent · Tue May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018

OSTI ID:1440013

Huskinson, Brian; Marshak, Michael; Aziz, Michael J.; Gordon, Roy G.; Betley, Theodore A.; Aspuru-Guzik, Alan; Er, Suleyman; Suh, Changwon

The invention provides an electrochemical cell based on a new chemistry for a flow battery for large scale, e.g., gridscale, electrical energy storage. Electrical energy is stored chemically at an electrochemical electrode by the protonation of small organic molecules called quinones to hydroquinones. The proton is provided by a complementary electrochemical reaction at the other electrode. These reactions are reversed to deliver electrical energy. A flow battery based on this concept can operate as a closed system. The flow battery architecture has scaling advantages over solid electrode batteries for large scale energy storage.

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Research Organization:: Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AR0000348

Assignee:: President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)

Patent Number(s):: 9,966,622

Application Number:: 14/823,546

OSTI ID:: 1440013

Resource Relation:: Patent File Date: 2015 Aug 11

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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