skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Aqueous Electrochemical Energy Storage with a Mediator-Ion Solid Electrolyte

Journal Article · · Advanced Energy Materials

This study presents a battery concept with a “mediator‐ion” solid electrolyte for the development of next‐generation electrochemical energy storage technologies. The active anode and cathode materials in a single cell can be in the solid, liquid, or gaseous form, which are separated by a sodium‐ion solid‐electrolyte separator. The uniqueness of this mediator‐ion strategy is that the redox reactions at the anode and the cathode are sustained by a shuttling of a mediator sodium ion between the anolyte and the catholyte through the solid‐state electrolyte. Use of the solid‐electrolyte separator circumvents the chemical‐crossover problem between the anode and the cathode, overcomes the dendrite‐problem when employing metal‐anodes, and offers the possibility of using different liquid electrolytes at the anode and the cathode in a single cell. The battery concept is demonstrated with two low‐cost metal anodes (zinc and iron), two liquid cathodes (bromine and potassium ferricyanide), and one gaseous cathode (air/O 2 ) with a sodium‐ion solid electrolyte. This novel battery strategy with a mediator‐ion solid electrolyte is applicable to a wide range of electrochemical energy storage systems with a variety of cathodes, anodes, and mediator‐ion solid electrolytes.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0005397; DE‐SC0005397
OSTI ID:
1533075
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1400601
Journal Information:
Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 7, Issue 11; ISSN 1614-6832
Publisher:
WileyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 20 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (57)

Fast Na+-ion transport in skeleton structures journal February 1976
Metal-Air Batteries with High Energy Density: Li-Air versus Zn-Air journal December 2010
High-voltage aqueous battery approaching 3 V using an acidic–alkaline double electrolyte journal January 2013
Solid electrolytes with multivalent cation conduction (2) zinc ion conduction in Zn$z.sbnd;Zr$z.sbnd;PO4 system journal August 1990
Decoupled bifunctional air electrodes for high-performance hybrid lithium-air batteries journal October 2014
Sustainable Electrical Energy Storage through the Ferrocene/Ferrocenium Redox Reaction in Aprotic Electrolyte journal August 2014
Technologies for extending zinc–air battery’s cyclelife: A review journal September 2014
Controlled synthesis and characterization of iron oxide micro-particles for Fe-air battery electrode material journal September 2014
High sodium ion conductivity of glass–ceramic electrolytes with cubic Na3PS4 journal July 2014
A High-Performance Rechargeable Iron Electrode for Large-Scale Battery-Based Energy Storage journal January 2012
H+ diffusion and electrochemical stability of Li1+x+yAlxTi2−xSiyP3−yO12 glass in aqueous Li/air battery electrolytes journal September 2012
A review of lithium and non-lithium based solid state batteries journal May 2015
Re-building Daniell Cell with a Li-ion exchange Film journal November 2014
A high-rate and long cycle life solid-state lithium–air battery journal January 2015
New Bromine Complexing Agents for Bromide Based Batteries journal May 2013
A Model for Degradation of Ceramic Electrolytes in Na-S Batteries journal January 1975
A Biodegradable Polydopamine-Derived Electrode Material for High-Capacity and Long-Life Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Batteries journal August 2016
Aqueous solutions of lithium hydroxide at various temperatures: Conductivity and activity coefficients journal December 1979
The nickel/iron battery journal June 1991
A Brief Review on Multivalent Intercalation Batteries with Aqueous Electrolytes journal February 2016
Cell degradation of a Na–NiCl2 (ZEBRA) battery journal January 2013
Rechargeable Li//Br battery: a promising platform for post lithium ion batteries journal January 2014
Aprotic and Aqueous Li–O2 Batteries journal April 2014
Air-Metal Hydride Battery Construction and Evaluation journal January 1995
Hybrid Li-air battery cathodes with sparse carbon nanotube arrays directly grown on carbon fiber papers journal January 2013
Electrospun materials for lithium and sodium rechargeable batteries: from structure evolution to electrochemical performance journal January 2015
Hybrid and Aqueous Lithium-Air Batteries journal October 2014
An iron—air vehicle battery journal February 1978
Remarkably high activity of electrodeposited IrO2 film for electrocatalytic water oxidation journal May 2005
A Perovskite Oxide Optimized for Oxygen Evolution Catalysis from Molecular Orbital Principles journal October 2011
Zinc–bromine hybrid flow battery: effect of zinc utilization and performance characteristics journal January 2014
Review—Solid Electrolytes in Rechargeable Electrochemical Cells journal January 2015
The Li-Ion Rechargeable Battery: A Perspective journal January 2013
Recent progress in hydrogen storage alloys for nickel/metal hydride secondary batteries journal June 2009
In Situ Coupling of Strung Co 4 N and Intertwined N–C Fibers toward Free-Standing Bifunctional Cathode for Robust, Efficient, and Flexible Zn–Air Batteries journal August 2016
Engraving Copper Foil to Give Large-Scale Binder-Free Porous CuO Arrays for a High-Performance Sodium-Ion Battery Anode journal January 2014
Recent progress in rechargeable alkali metal–air batteries journal April 2016
Review—Practical Issues and Future Perspective for Na-Ion Batteries journal January 2015
Using Li + as the electrochemical messenger to fabricate an aqueous rechargeable Zn–Cu battery journal January 2015
Development of a Lithium Air Rechargeable Battery conference January 2010
Advanced Extremely Durable 3D Bifunctional Air Electrodes for Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries journal December 2013
Long-Life, High-Voltage Acidic Zn-Air Batteries journal December 2015
Recent advances in zinc–air batteries journal January 2014
Processes in a Nickel-Zinc Battery with Nickel Oxide Electrode Fabricated from Spherical Nickel Hydroxide journal January 2003
Progress in electrical energy storage system: A critical review journal March 2009
Nickel/iron batteries journal August 1994
Challenges of non-aqueous Li–O2 batteries: electrolytes, catalysts, and anodes journal January 2013
Graphene–Co 3 O 4 nanocomposite as an efficient bifunctional catalyst for lithium–air batteries journal January 2014
The Oxidation of Bromide on Platinum Electrodes in Aqueous Acidic Solutions: Electrochemical and In Situ Spectroscopic Studies journal January 2014
Alkaline quinone flow battery journal September 2015
Li–O2 and Li–S batteries with high energy storage journal January 2012
Multivalent Cationic Conduction in Crystalline Solids journal December 1998
A reversible Br 2 /Br redox couple in the aqueous phase as a high-performance catholyte for alkali-ion batteries journal January 2014
Inorganic Solid-State Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries: Mechanisms and Properties Governing Ion Conduction journal December 2015
A Review of the Iron-Air Secondary Battery for Energy Storage journal September 2014
Non-Aqueous and Hybrid Li-O2 Batteries journal May 2012
Sodium-sulphur secondary batteries book January 2000

Cited By (3)