Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

High-energy and low-cost membrane-free chlorine flow battery

  • Singyuk Hou,
  • Long Chen,
  • Xiulin Fan,
  • Xiaotong Fan,
  • Xiao Ji,
  • Boyu Wang,
  • Chunyu Cui,
  • Ji Chen,
  • Chongyin Yang,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Chunzhong Li,
  • Chunsheng Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28880-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Flow batteries provide promising solutions for stationary energy storage but most of the systems are based on expensive metal ions or synthetic organics. Here, the authors show a chlorine flow battery capitalizing the electrolysis of saltwater where the redox reaction is stabilized by the saltwater-immiscible organic flow.