Fabricating of high performance electrodes by a sustainable and cost effective method is essential to the development of vanadium redox flow batteries(VRFBs).In this work,an effective strategy is proposed to deposit c...Fabricating of high performance electrodes by a sustainable and cost effective method is essential to the development of vanadium redox flow batteries(VRFBs).In this work,an effective strategy is proposed to deposit carbon nanoparticles on graphite felts by hydrothermal carbonization method.This in-situ method minimizes the drop off and aggregation of carbon nanoparticles during electrochemical testing.Such integration of felts and hydrothermal carbons(HTC)produces a new electrode that combines the outstanding electrical conductivity of felts with the effective redox active sites provided by the HTC coating layer.The presence of the amorphous carbon layers on the felts is found to be able to promote the mass/charge transfer,and create oxygenated/nitrogenated active sites and hence enhances wettability.Consequently,the most optimized electrode based on a rational approach delivers an impressive electrochemical performance toward VRFBs in wide range of current densities from 200 to 500 mAcm^-2.The voltage efficiency(VE)of GFs-HTC is much higher than the VEs of the pristine GFs,especially at high current densities.It exhibits a 4.18 times increase in discharge capacity over the pristine graphite felt respectively,at a high current density of 400 mAcm^-2.The enhanced performance is attributed to the abundant active sites from amorphous hydrothermal carbon,which facilitates the fast electrochemical kinetics of vanadium redox reactions.This work evidences that the glucose-derived hydrothermal carbons as energy storage booster hold great promise in practical VRFBs application.展开更多
The electrode is one of the main components in redox flow batteries(RFBs), as it provides the reactions sites for redox couples and can influence the cell performance through its effect on cell voltage losses associat...The electrode is one of the main components in redox flow batteries(RFBs), as it provides the reactions sites for redox couples and can influence the cell performance through its effect on cell voltage losses associated with activation overpotential, concentration overpotential and ohmic losses. Extensive research has thus been carried out on material selection, structural design and modification of electrodes as well as electrocatalysis for redox reactions. This review provides an historical overview of the screening and modification of electrode materials together with recent progress in novel electrode architectures, electrode modification and electrocatalysis methods. RFB systems such as iron/chromium, polysulfide/bromine and all vanadium batteries are discussed in detail.展开更多
基金supported by the Award Program for Fujian Minjiang Scholar Professorshipthe National Natural Science Foundation of China(21571035)。
文摘Fabricating of high performance electrodes by a sustainable and cost effective method is essential to the development of vanadium redox flow batteries(VRFBs).In this work,an effective strategy is proposed to deposit carbon nanoparticles on graphite felts by hydrothermal carbonization method.This in-situ method minimizes the drop off and aggregation of carbon nanoparticles during electrochemical testing.Such integration of felts and hydrothermal carbons(HTC)produces a new electrode that combines the outstanding electrical conductivity of felts with the effective redox active sites provided by the HTC coating layer.The presence of the amorphous carbon layers on the felts is found to be able to promote the mass/charge transfer,and create oxygenated/nitrogenated active sites and hence enhances wettability.Consequently,the most optimized electrode based on a rational approach delivers an impressive electrochemical performance toward VRFBs in wide range of current densities from 200 to 500 mAcm^-2.The voltage efficiency(VE)of GFs-HTC is much higher than the VEs of the pristine GFs,especially at high current densities.It exhibits a 4.18 times increase in discharge capacity over the pristine graphite felt respectively,at a high current density of 400 mAcm^-2.The enhanced performance is attributed to the abundant active sites from amorphous hydrothermal carbon,which facilitates the fast electrochemical kinetics of vanadium redox reactions.This work evidences that the glucose-derived hydrothermal carbons as energy storage booster hold great promise in practical VRFBs application.
文摘The electrode is one of the main components in redox flow batteries(RFBs), as it provides the reactions sites for redox couples and can influence the cell performance through its effect on cell voltage losses associated with activation overpotential, concentration overpotential and ohmic losses. Extensive research has thus been carried out on material selection, structural design and modification of electrodes as well as electrocatalysis for redox reactions. This review provides an historical overview of the screening and modification of electrode materials together with recent progress in novel electrode architectures, electrode modification and electrocatalysis methods. RFB systems such as iron/chromium, polysulfide/bromine and all vanadium batteries are discussed in detail.
