Engineering aspects of the design, construction and performance of modular redox flow batteries for energy storage

LF Arenas, CP De León, FC Walsh - Journal of Energy Storage, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite many studies and several extensive reviews of redox flow batteries (RFBs) over the
last three decades, information on engineering aspects is scarce, which hinders progress …

Recent advances in porous electrodes for vanadium redox flow batteries in grid-scale energy storage systems: A mass transfer perspective

J Kim, H Park - Journal of Power Sources, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy storage systems that serve as reservoirs for the power management of existing
power grids and renewable power generation facilities have become increasingly important …

Phenothiazine‐based organic catholyte for high‐capacity and long‐life aqueous redox flow batteries

C Zhang, Z Niu, S Peng, Y Ding, L Zhang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Redox‐active organic materials have been considered as one of the most promising “green”
candidates for aqueous redox flow batteries (RFBs) due to the natural abundance, structural …

Elucidating the nuanced effects of thermal pretreatment on carbon paper electrodes for vanadium redox flow batteries

KV Greco, A Forner-Cuenca, A Mularczyk… - … applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Sluggish vanadium reaction rates on the porous carbon electrodes typically used in redox
flow batteries have prompted research into pretreatment strategies, most notably thermal …

Characterization of carbon felt electrodes for vanadium redox flow batteries: impact of treatment methods

L Eifert, R Banerjee, Z Jusys… - Journal of The …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this study, we investigated the influence of thermal treatment, soaking in H 2 SO 4 and
electrochemical ageing on commercially available carbon felt materials from SGL carbon …

Metal and metal oxide electrocatalysts for redox flow batteries

K Amini, J Gostick, MD Pritzker - Advanced Functional Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Redox flow batteries (RFBs) are one of the promising technologies for large‐scale energy
storage applications. For practical implementation of RFBs, it is of great interest to improve …

Effect of oxygen plasma treatment on the electrochemical performance of the rayon and polyacrylonitrile based carbon felt for the vanadium redox flow battery …

D Dixon, DJ Babu, J Langner, M Bruns… - Journal of Power …, 2016 - Elsevier
Oxygen plasma treatment was applied on commercially available graphite felt electrodes
based on rayon (GFA) and polyacrylonitrile (GFD). The formation of functional groups on the …

Oxygen-induced electrode activation and modulation essence towards enhanced anode redox chemistry for vanadium flow batteries

K Zhang, C Yan, A Tang - Energy Storage Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The vanadium flow battery (VFB) has seen a promising potential for use in large-scale
energy storage. However, the sluggish anode redox chemistry still greatly limits the cycling …

Mass transfer and reaction kinetic enhanced electrode for high‐performance aqueous flow batteries

A Mukhopadhyay, Y Yang, Y Li, Y Chen… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A scalable and efficient process to modify electrodes with enhanced mass transfer and
reaction kinetics is critical for redox flow batteries (RFBs). For the first time, this work …

Bio-inspired multiscale-pore-network structured carbon felt with enhanced mass transfer and activity for vanadium redox flow batteries

Q Wu, X Zhang, Y Lv, L Lin, Y Liu… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Simultaneously achieving fast mass transfer and high electrochemical activity has been a
central issue of the porous electrode design of vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs). In …