Влияние толщины активного слоя из углеродной сажи на характеристики комбинированных электродов в составе ячейки ванадиевой проточной батареи

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The development of vanadium flow batteries requires the development of new materials to improve their performance. To date, research on electrode materials for these storage devices is focused on increasing specific power and energy efficiency. As is known, energy efficiency can be increased by reducing the polarization of the electrodes due to losses in the transport of charge carrier ions between half-elements, and this can be achieved if an electrochemically active layer is located directly near the surface of the membrane. In this paper, we propose the use of two-layer composite electrodes for this purpose, where the active layer will be located directly at the electrode/membrane boundary. When using CH210 soot with PVDF binder as an active layer at a coating density of 20 mg/cm2, the energy efficiency remains at 79.6% at a current density of 150 mA/cm2, however, an increase in the thickness of the applied layer leads to a decrease in the discharge capacity to 1% of the initial capacity obtained on uncoated electrodes at a density of The current is 25 mA/cm2. Thus, the creation of an active layer on the surface of a commercially available GFD4.6 EA material by airbrush spraying is a fairly simple way to increase the efficiency of the charge-discharge cycle of a vanadium flow battery cell.

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А. N. Voropay

Dubna State University; Technocomplekt LLC

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Email: voropay@uni-dubna.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna; Dubna

E. D. Vladimir

Dubna State University

Email: voropay@uni-dubna.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna

Е. S. Osetrov

Technocomplekt LLC

Email: voropay@uni-dubna.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna

A. А. Usenko

Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry RAS

Email: voropay@uni-dubna.ru
Russian Federation, Chernogolovka

E. O. Deriabina

Dubna State University

Email: voropay@uni-dubna.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna

V. V. Zueva

Dubna State University

Email: voropay@uni-dubna.ru
Russian Federation, Dubna

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2. Fig. 1. Photo of the cell (a) and cell model (b): 1 – proton-conducting membrane Nafion 117, 2 – porous electrode, 3 – plate limiting the electrode space, 4 – graphite electrode, 5 – outer casing of the cell.

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4. Fig. 3. Charge-discharge curves for samples at a current density of 50 mA/cm2 (a); charge-discharge curves for the FBE-2 sample at different current densities (b); curves of the normalized discharge capacity EU from the current density (c); curves of the dependence of the energy efficiency on the current density (d).

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