Nature Communications (May 2022)

A cost-effective alkaline polysulfide-air redox flow battery enabled by a dual-membrane cell architecture

  • Yuhua Xia,
  • Mengzheng Ouyang,
  • Vladimir Yufit,
  • Rui Tan,
  • Anna Regoutz,
  • Anqi Wang,
  • Wenjie Mao,
  • Barun Chakrabarti,
  • Ashkan Kavei,
  • Qilei Song,
  • Anthony R. Kucernak,
  • Nigel P. Brandon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30044-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Polysulfide-air redox flow batteries are an appealing energy storage technology but suffer from polysulfide crossover and the use of costly catalysts. Here, the authors report a cell structure that enables battery operation using a cost-effective catalyst while mitigating polysulfide crossover.