A high-rate and long cycle life aqueous electrolyte battery for grid-scale energy storage
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KUS-l1-001-12Date
2012-10-23Online Publication Date
2012-10-23Print Publication Date
2012-01Permanent link to this record
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New types of energy storage are needed in conjunction with the deployment of solar, wind and other volatile renewable energy sources and their integration with the electric grid. No existing energy storage technology can economically provide the power, cycle life and energy efficiency needed to respond to the costly short-term transients that arise from renewables and other aspects of grid operation. Here we demonstrate a new type of safe, fast, inexpensive, long-life aqueous electrolyte battery, which relies on the insertion of potassium ions into a copper hexacyanoferrate cathode and a novel activated carbon/polypyrrole hybrid anode. The cathode reacts rapidly with very little hysteresis. The hybrid anode uses an electrochemically active additive to tune its potential. This high-rate, high-efficiency cell has a 95% round-trip energy efficiency when cycled at a 5C rate, and a 79% energy efficiency at 50C. It also has zero-capacity loss after 1,000 deep-discharge cycles. © 2012 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.Citation
Pasta M, Wessells CD, Huggins RA, Cui Y (2012) A high-rate and long cycle life aqueous electrolyte battery for grid-scale energy storage. Nat Comms 3: 1149. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2139.Sponsors
We thank Matt T. McDowell for transmission electron microscope characterization and Nian Liu for his help in drawing the full cell schematic. We also acknowledge support from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Investigator Award (no. KUS-l1-001-12).Publisher
Springer NatureJournal
Nature CommunicationsPubMed ID
23093186ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1038/ncomms2139
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