Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries and Proton Exchange Membranes
This community develops electrochemical systems for long-duration energy storage and hydrogen production, focusing on vanadium-based flow batteries and fuel cell membranes.
The work centers on all-vanadium redox flow batteries, utilizing vanadium electrolytes, graphite felt electrodes, and ion-exchange membranes. A significant portion of the research addresses membrane engineering, specifically sulfonated poly(ether ether ketone) and composite membranes, to improve proton conductivity and reduce crossover. The community also investigates alternative chemistries, including zinc-bromine and organic redox flow batteries, and applies these membrane technologies to high-temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells. Materials such as graphene oxide and carbon felt are frequently modified to enhance electrode performance and electrolyte stability.
Vanadium research accounts for 9.1% of all vanadium literature, representing 3,227 papers within this group. Bromine and zinc also appear, with 413 and 422 papers respectively, reflecting the zinc-bromine battery strand.
The community comprises 6,261 papers, published primarily in the Journal of Power Sources, Electrochimica Acta, and the Journal of Energy Storage.
Recent work includes zinc-bromine flow batteries with multi-electron transfer reactions, nonfluorinated membranes for polysulfide redox flow batteries, and vanadium sourcing strategies for the energy transition.
Papers behind this description
- Comprehensive review of energy storage systems technologies, objectives, challenges, and future trends — Energy Strategy Reviews, 2024 — doi:10.1016/j.esr.2024.101482
- A comprehensive review of stationary energy storage devices for large scale renewable energy sources grid integration — Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 — doi:10.1016/j.rser.2022.112213
- Near-frictionless ion transport within triazine framework membranes — Nature, 2023 — doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05888-x
- Acid doped branched poly(biphenyl pyridine) membranes for high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells and vanadium redox flow batteries — Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024 — doi:10.1016/j.cej.2024.151121
- Vanadium Redox Flow Battery: Review and Perspective of 3D Electrodes — ACS Nano, 2024 — doi:10.1021/acsnano.4c06675
- Aryl ether-free polymer electrolytes for electrochemical and energy devices — Chemical Society Reviews, 2024 — doi:10.1039/d3cs00186e
- Advances in the Application of Sulfonated Poly(Ether Ether Ketone) (SPEEK) and Its Organic Composite Membranes for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) — Polymers, 2024 — doi:10.3390/polym16192840
- Strategies for improving the design of porous fiber felt electrodes for all-vanadium redox flow batteries from macro and micro perspectives — Energy & Environmental Science, 2025 — doi:10.1039/d4ee05556j
- Advances in filler-crosslinked membranes for hydrogen fuel cells in sustainable energy generation — International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.05.197
- Construction of High-Performance Membranes for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries: Challenges, Development, and Perspectives — Nano-Micro Letters, 2025 — doi:10.1007/s40820-025-01736-x
- An overview of proton exchange membranes for fuel cells: Materials and manufacturing — International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2022 — doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.04.099
- Proton exchange membranes for high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cells: Challenges and perspectives — Journal of Power Sources, 2022 — doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2022.231386
- Grid-scale corrosion-free Zn/Br flow batteries enabled by a multi-electron transfer reaction — Nature Energy, 2025 — doi:10.1038/s41560-025-01907-5
- Phosphoric Acid‐in‐Clay Electrolyte Boosting Polybenzimidazole Membranes for High‐Performance Fuel Cells — Advanced Functional Materials, 2025 — doi:10.1002/adfm.202518482
- Nonfluorinated Membrane with a Decentralized Ion-Transport Network Enables Efficient and Sustainable Polysulfide Redox Flow Batteries — Science Advances, 2025 — doi:10.1126/sciadv.aea0032
- An adjustable heat-to-power ratio combined heat and power system integrating biomass gasification, solid oxide fuel cell, and gas turbine: Energy, exergy, economic, and exergoeconomic (4E) analyses — International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2026 — doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2026.155706
- Bidirectionally Enhanced Reaction Kinetics in Vanadium Redox Flow Battery via Regulating Mixed-Valence States in Perovskite Electrodes — Nano-Micro Letters, 2026 — doi:10.1007/s40820-025-02060-0
- High dispersed M-N-C active site anchored nanosheets with tailored d-orbital electron structure promoting vanadium redox flow battery performance — Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2026 — doi:10.1016/j.jmst.2025.10.048