Methylene Blue in a High-Performance Hydrogen-Organic Rechargeable Fuel Cell

by Christopher G. Cannon, Peter A. A. Klusener, Luke F. Petit, Toby Wong, Anqi Wang, Qilei Song, Nigel P. Brandon, Anthony R. J. Kucernak
Year: 2024 DOI: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsaem.3c02515

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Published in ACS Appl. Energy Mater.

Abstract

A hydrogen-organic hybrid flow battery (FB) has been developed using methylene blue (MB) in an aqueous acid electrolyte with a theoretical positive electrolyte energy storage capacity of 65.4 A h L–1. MB paired with the versatile H2/H+ redox couple at the negative electrode forms the H2–MB rechargeable fuel cell, with no loss in capacity (5 sig. figures) over 30 100% discharge cycles of galvanostatic cycling at 50 mA cm–2, which shows excellent stability. A peak power density of 238 mW cm–2 has also been demonstrated by utilizing 1.0 M MB electrolyte. This represents a type of scalable electrochemical energy storage system with favorable properties in terms of material cost, stability, crossover management, and energy and power density, overcoming many typical limitations of organic-based redox FBs.