Feb

15

Integrating Redox Flow Battery With Seawater Desalination

February 15, 2024 | Leave a Comment

Researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering achieved a major breakthrough in Redox Flow Desalination (RFD), an emerging electrochemical technique that can turn seawater into potable drinking water and also store affordable renewable energy. In a paper published in Cell Reports Physical Science, the NYU Tandon team led by Dr. André Taylor, professor of chemical […]

Oct

12

New Membrane Free Redox Flow Battery Runs At Four Volts

October 12, 2023 | Leave a Comment

A University of Cincinnati chemist envisions a future where every house is powered by renewable energy stored in safer low cost redox flow batteries. Jimmy Jiang and his team described their novel design in the journal Nature Communications. They have created a new battery that could have profound implications for the large-scale energy storage needed […]

Jan

26

Grid Storage Batteries For 1/5 The Price

January 26, 2021 | Leave a Comment

University of Warwick researchers in collaboration with Imperial College London, have found a way to enhance hybrid flow batteries and their commercial use. The new approach can store electricity in these batteries for very long durations for about a fifth the price of current technologies, with minimal location restraints and zero emissions. The researchers’ enhanced […]

Nov

23

Fun Glow In The Dark Dye For Better Batteries

November 23, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Could a glow-in-the-dark dye be the next advancement in energy storage technology? University at Buffalo scientists think so. They have identified a fluorescent dye called BODIPY as an ideal material for stockpiling energy in rechargeable, liquid-based batteries that could one day power cars and homes. BODIPY – short for boron-dipyrromethene – shines brightly in the […]

Mar

19

Better Storage for Wind and Solar Power Found

March 19, 2013 | 4 Comments

Fraunhofer scientists have recently made an important breakthrough with their development of an improved Redox Flow Battery.  Over the area of a half square meter, a bit over 4.5 square feet, the new redox stack battery holds 25-kilo watts. The Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT in Oberhausen, Germany is intensely motivated.  […]

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