Membrane-Free Zn/MnO2 Flow Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage
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Chen, Wei
Zhang, Hao
Gong, Yongji
Shi, Feifei
Wang, Jiangyan
Zhang, Rufan
Chen, Guangxu
Jin, Yang
Wu, Tong
Tang, Zhiyong
Cui, Yi
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The traditional Zn/MnO2 battery has attracted great interest due to its low cost, high safety, high output voltage, and environmental friendliness. However, it remains a big challenge to achieve long‐term stability, mainly owing to the poor reversibility of the cathode reaction. Different from previous studies where the cathode redox reaction of MnO2/MnOOH is in solid state with limited reversibility, here a new aqueous rechargeable Zn/MnO2 flow battery is constructed with dissolution–precipitation reactions in both cathodes (Mn2+/MnO2) and anodes (Zn2+/Zn), which allow mixing of anolyte and catholyte into only one electrolyte and remove the requirement for an ion selective membrane for cost reduction. Impressively, this new battery exhibits a high discharge voltage of ≈1.78 V, good rate capability (10C discharge), and excellent cycling stability (1000 cycles without decay) at the areal capacity ranging from 0.5 to 2 mAh cm‐2. More importantly, this battery can be readily enlarged to a bench scale flow cell of 1.2 Ah with good capacity retention of 89.7% at the 500th cycle, displaying great potential for large‐scale energy storage.
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Advanced Energy Materials
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Macromolecular and materials chemistry
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Li, G; Chen, W; Zhang, H; Gong, Y; Shi, F; Wang, J; Zhang, R; Chen, G; Jin, Y; Wu, T; Tang, Z; Cui, Y, Membrane-Free Zn/MnO2 Flow Battery for Large-Scale Energy Storage, Advanced Energy Materials, 2020, 10 (9), pp. 1902085:1-1902085:10