Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Thin-film composite membrane breaking the trade-off between conductivity and selectivity for a flow battery

  • Qing Dai,
  • Zhiqiang Liu,
  • Ling Huang,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Yuyue Zhao,
  • Qiang Fu,
  • Anmin Zheng,
  • Huamin Zhang,
  • Xianfeng Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13704-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Low-cost flow batteries with high power density are promising for energy storage, but membranes with simultaneously high ion conductivity and selectivity should be developed. Here the authors report a thin-film composite membrane that breaks the trade-off between ion conductivity and selectivity.