Stony Brook researchers improve redox flow battery storage

Stony Brook University researchers have reported a study on improving the affordability and energy density of redox flow batteries by using lithium-based ferrocyanide electrolytes.

• Nav Nidhi of Stony Brook University, in collaboration with Kuldeepsinh Raj and Xiaoliang Wei’s team at Purdue University, released a study exploring a more affordable alternative to vanadium-based redox flow batteries.
• The researchers found lithium-based ferrocyanide was about six to eight times more soluble than sodium- and potassium-based versions under strongly alkaline conditions, based on computational modeling and experimental work led by Mahla Sarfaraz Khabbaz at Purdue.
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