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Highly soluble and crossover-free all-organic redox pair using N-heterocycle-linked TEMPO and two-electron-capable bipyridinium towards high performance aqueous flow batteries

2024; Elsevier BV; Volume: 496; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.cej.2024.153504

1873-3212

Mingguang Pan, Zhong Jin, Tianshou Zhao, Jianwei Sun, Zhihu You, Ernest Pahuyo Delmo, Mohammad Farhadpour, Zuoao Wu, Minhua Shao,

Perovskite Materials and Applications

Aqueous organic redox flow batteries (AORFBs) are the brilliant technologies for safe and sustainable stationary energy storage. However, the cross-contamination, limited cell voltage, and inferior cycling stability remain challenges. Herein, the N-heterocycle-substituted TEMPO (TMP-TEMPO) and pyrrolidinium-/ammonium-grafted bipyridinium ([PyrTMAV]Cl4) redox pair with multiple charges are designed for high-performance AORFBs. The whole material preparation is relatively simple and only needs two or three synthetic steps. The TMP-TEMPO and [PyrTMAV]Cl4 show high aqueous solubility of 2.4 M and 1.71 M, respectively, excellent electrochemical reversibility, and fast redox kinetics. Notably, the introduction of multiple charges into the active materials can produce a strong Gibbs-Donnan effect with ion exchange membranes, thus preventing the permeability of molecules through the membrane and avoiding the cross-contamination of active molecules. By using the crossover-free TMP-TEMPO and two-electron [PyrTMAV]Cl4 redox pair, the assembled two-electron AORFBs at an electron concentration of 0.2 M exhibit stable battery performance in environments with O2 contents of both 10 ppm and 100 ppm with a capacity retention of over 99 % per day for hundreds of cycles (268 and 310 cycles), and a high energy efficiency of ∼89 % and Coulombic efficiency of ∼100 %. Furthermore, the AORFB achieves a high capacity of ∼37.4 Ah L−1 at an ultra-high electron concentration of 1.5 M, while maintaining a capacity retention rate of ∼99.7 % over 138 cycles and a theoretical capacity utilization rate of 93 %. The versatile molecular design for TMP-TEMPO and [PyrTMAV]Cl4 can be easily extended to the synthesis of various amino-functionalized TEMPO and asymmetric bipyridinium derivatives.