A technology review of electrodes and reaction mechanisms in vanadium redox flow batteries

KJ Kim, MS Park, YJ Kim, JH Kim, SX Dou… - Journal of materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The vanadium redox flow battery, which was first suggested by Skyllas-Kazacos and co-
workers in 1985, is an electrochemical storage system which allows energy to be stored in …

Vanadium flow battery for energy storage: prospects and challenges

C Ding, H Zhang, X Li, T Liu, F Xing - The journal of physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The vanadium flow battery (VFB) as one kind of energy storage technique that has
enormous impact on the stabilization and smooth output of renewable energy. Key materials …

Electrochemical activation of graphite felt electrode for VO2+/VO2+ redox couple application

W Zhang, J Xi, Z Li, H Zhou, L Liu, Z Wu, X Qiu - Electrochimica Acta, 2013 - Elsevier
In this work, the electrochemical activation of graphite felt electrode for vanadium redox flow
battery (VRB) was studied. Graphite felt (GF) electrode was oxidized at a range of …

Identifying the Active Site in Nitrogen-Doped Graphene for the VO2+/VO2+ Redox Reaction

J Jin, X Fu, Q Liu, Y Liu, Z Wei, K Niu, J Zhang - Acs Nano, 2013 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen-doped graphene sheets (NGS), synthesized by annealing graphite oxide (GO) with
urea at 700–1050° C, were studied as positive electrodes in a vanadium redox flow battery …

Graphene-based electrodes in a vanadium redox flow battery produced by rapid low-pressure combined gas plasma treatments

S Bellani, L Najafi, M Prato… - Chemistry of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The development of high-power density vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) with high
energy efficiencies (EEs) is crucial for the widespread dissemination of this energy storage …

Aligned microfibers interweaved with highly porous carbon nanofibers: A Novel electrode for high-power vanadium redox flow batteries

J Sun, MC Wu, XZ Fan, YH Wan, CYH Chao… - Energy Storage …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, we propose and develop a novel electrode made of aligned microscale carbon
fibers interweaved with highly porous carbon nanofibers for vanadium redox flow batteries …

Activated carbon fiber paper based electrodes with high electrocatalytic activity for vanadium flow batteries with improved power density

T Liu, X Li, C Xu, H Zhang - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2017 - ACS Publications
Vanadium flow batteries (VFBs) have received high attention for large-scale energy storage
due to their advantages of flexibility design, long cycle life, high efficiency, and high safety …

[HTML][HTML] Bismuth concentration influenced competition between electrochemical reactions in the all-vanadium redox flow battery

Y Wen, TP Neville, AJ Sobrido, PR Shearing… - Journal of Power …, 2023 - Elsevier
The current obstacles for all-vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) include the sluggish
reaction kinetics of electrode materials and the overlapping potential range of the hydrogen …

Composition of the electrode determines which half-cell's rate constant is higher in a vanadium flow battery

H Fink, J Friedl, U Stimming - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016 - ACS Publications
Vanadium flow batteries are a promising system for stationary energy storage. One of their
shortcomings is a low power density caused by slow kinetics of the redox reactions. To …

Electrode kinetics of vanadium flow batteries: contrasting responses of VII-VIII and VIV-VV to electrochemical pretreatment of carbon

A Bourke, MA Miller, RP Lynch, X Gao… - Journal of The …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry were used to investigate
the electrode kinetics of V II-V III and V IV-V V in H 2 SO 4 on glassy carbon, carbon paper …