Bimodal highly ordered mesostructure carbon with high activity for Br2/Br? redox couple in bromine based batteries
By Wang, Chenhui; Li, Xianfeng; Xi, Xiaoli; Zhou, Wei; Lai, Qinzhi; Zhang, Huamin
Published in Nano Energy
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2016
Abstract
Abstract Bimodal highly ordered mesostructure carbons (BOMCs) with excellent activity to Br2/Br? were designed and fabricated by an evaporation induced triconstituent co-assembly method. The morphologies of {BOMCs} were tuned via introducing dual templates: triblock copolymer (F127) and SiO2 nanoparticles, where around 5 nm pores can be induced by hydrogen bond between resole and {F127} and the removal of silica could create around 2 nm pores on the 5 nm pore walls. The highly ordered mesostructure can effectively shorten mass transfer distance and reduce mass transfer resistance. Meanwhile the around 2 nm pores on 5 nm pore walls are beneficial to Br2 adsorption and provide more active sites to Br2/Br? reaction. As a consequence, the materials demonstrate extremely outstanding performance to Br2/Br? couple. The zinc bromine flow batteries (ZBFBs) using the prepared carbon exhibit a voltage efficiency of 82.9% and an energy efficiency of 80.1% at the current density of 80 mA cm?2, which is by far the best performance ever reported, confirming the excellent activity of designed materials. The results indicate that the prepared {BOMC} with bimodal highly ordered mesostructure is a very promising candidate for bromine based batteries systems.
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