High-Throughput Electrochemical Characterization of Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Battery Active Material

摘要

Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries (AORFBs) have emerged as promising and potentially disruptive technologies for the storage of energy from intermittent renewable sources. With the goal of cost-effective, safe, and scalable stationary electricity storage systems, AORFBs could eclipse Li-ion batteries due to their inherent non-flammability, lack of materials scarcity fluctuations, and intrinsic decoupling of energy and power capacities. Recent work has demonstrated that calendar life, rather than cycle life, limits molecular lifetimes in AORFBs due to various molecular instabilities that lead to side reactions, thus inhibiting performance. For accurately determining molecular fade rates, the importance has been demonstrated of potentiostatic holds in order to avoid artifacts caused by drifts in internal resistance; additionally the utility of volumetrically unbalanced, compositionally-symmetric cell configurations to distinguish molecular fade from membrane crossover has been demonstrated. However, some reports continue to use purely galvanostatic cycling to characterize molecular stability, leading to unreliable reports of molecular fade rates.