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Title: Quinones having high capacity retention for use as electrolytes in aqueous redox flow batteries

Patent ·
OSTI ID:2222104

We disclose quinone compounds and related species (Formula I) that possess significant advantages when used as a redox active material in a battery, e.g., a redox flow battery. In particular, the compounds provide redox flow batteries (RFBs) with extremely high capacity retention. For example, RFBs of the invention can be cycled for 500 times with negligible loss of capacity, and such batteries could be employed for years of service. Thus, the invention provides a high efficiency, long cycle life redox flow battery with reasonable power cost, low energy cost, and all the energy scaling advantages of a flow battery.

Research Organization:
STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH This invention was made with government support under DE-AC05-76RL01830, DE-AR0000348, and DE-AR0000767 awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy and under 1509041 awarded by the National Science Foundation. The government has certain rights to the invention.
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830; AR0000348; AR0000767; 1509041
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
Patent Number(s):
11,724,980
Application Number:
16/968,684
OSTI ID:
2222104
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 02/11/2019
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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