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Progress of organic, inorganic redox flow battery and mechanism of electrode reaction

Show Author's Information Yinping Liu1,§,  Yingchun Niu1,§,  Xiangcheng Ouyang1,§,  Chao Guo1,  Peiyu Han1,  Ruichen Zhou1,  Ali Heydari1,  Yang Zhou1,  Olli Ikkala2,  Glazkov Artem Tigranovich3,  Chunming Xu1,  Quan Xu1( )
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, Beijing Key Laboratory of Biogas Upgrading Utilization, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China
Center of Excellence Molecular Engineering of Biosynthetic Hybrid Materials Research, Aalto University and VTT, Espoo FI-00076, Finland
EMCPS Department, Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow 125047, Russia

§ Yinping Liu and Yingchun Niu and Xiangcheng Ouyang contributed equally to this work.

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inorganic redox flow batteries, organic redox flow batteries, electrode modification mechanism, novel flow batteries, challenges and perspective
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With the deployment of renewable energy and the increasing demand for power grid modernization, redox flow battery has attracted a lot of research interest in recent years. Among the available energy storage technologies, the redox flow battery is considered the most promising candidate battery due to its unlimited capacity, design flexibility, and safety. In this review, we summarize the latest progress and improvement strategies of common inorganic redox flow batteries, such as vanadium redox flow batteries, iron-chromium redox flow batteries, and zinc-based redox flow batteries, including electrolyte, membrane, electrode, structure design, etc. In addition, we introduce the latest progress in aqueous and non-aqueous organic redox flow batteries. We also focus on the modification mechanism, optimization design, improvement strategy, and modeling method of the redox flow battery reaction. Finally, this review presents a brief summary, challenges, and perspectives of the redox flow battery.


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Progress of organic, inorganic redox flow battery and mechanism of electrode reaction

Show Author's information Yinping Liu1,§, Yingchun Niu1,§, Xiangcheng Ouyang1,§, Chao Guo1, Peiyu Han1, Ruichen Zhou1, Ali Heydari1, Yang Zhou1, Olli Ikkala2, Glazkov Artem Tigranovich3, Chunming Xu1, Quan Xu1( )
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, Beijing Key Laboratory of Biogas Upgrading Utilization, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing 102249, China
Center of Excellence Molecular Engineering of Biosynthetic Hybrid Materials Research, Aalto University and VTT, Espoo FI-00076, Finland
EMCPS Department, Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia, Moscow 125047, Russia

§ Yinping Liu and Yingchun Niu and Xiangcheng Ouyang contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

With the deployment of renewable energy and the increasing demand for power grid modernization, redox flow battery has attracted a lot of research interest in recent years. Among the available energy storage technologies, the redox flow battery is considered the most promising candidate battery due to its unlimited capacity, design flexibility, and safety. In this review, we summarize the latest progress and improvement strategies of common inorganic redox flow batteries, such as vanadium redox flow batteries, iron-chromium redox flow batteries, and zinc-based redox flow batteries, including electrolyte, membrane, electrode, structure design, etc. In addition, we introduce the latest progress in aqueous and non-aqueous organic redox flow batteries. We also focus on the modification mechanism, optimization design, improvement strategy, and modeling method of the redox flow battery reaction. Finally, this review presents a brief summary, challenges, and perspectives of the redox flow battery.

Keywords: inorganic redox flow batteries, organic redox flow batteries, electrode modification mechanism, novel flow batteries, challenges and perspective

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Received: 07 March 2023
Revised: 01 April 2023
Accepted: 30 April 2023
Published: 29 June 2023
Issue date: December 2023

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This work was fully supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52211530034), the foundation of China University of Petroleum, Beijing (Nos. 2462020YXZZ018 and 2462023XKBH005), and the foundation of Beijing National Science Foundation (No. 3222018).

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