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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
卷 7, 期 10, 页码 5589-5600出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8ta09650c
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- City University of Hong Kong [7004467, 7004690]
To address the challenges of the poor electrochemical performance of graphite felt electrodes in vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs), binary nickel cobalt oxide (NiCoO2) is developed as a novel candidate for the positive electrode via a facile hydrothermal and calcination approach. The graphite felt modified with NiCoO2 exhibits excellent electrochemical activity and reversibility in the VO2+/VO2+ redox reactions resulting from the enhanced electrocatalytic activity of binary NiCoO2, compared with pristine graphite felt and single metal oxide CoO-modified graphite felt. The flow cell employing a NiCoO2-modified graphite felt electrode displays a voltage efficiency of 81.2% at a high current density of 150 mA cm(-2), which is higher than that of 66.9% and 77.5% obtained from pristine graphite felt and CoO-modified graphite felt electrodes, respectively. In particular, the discharge capacity of the flow cell is significantly enhanced, increasing from 185.4 mAh for graphite felt and 374.2 mAh for CoO-modified graphite felt to 469.4 mAh for NiCoO2-modified graphite felt. No obvious efficiency decay is observed after 50 charge-discharge cycles confirming the stability of NiCoO2 deposition on graphite felt. Overall, the results demonstrate that the electrochemical performance of graphite felt can be further enhanced via introducing a binary metal oxide exhibiting higher conductivity and electrocatalytic activity compared with single metal oxides, providing guidelines for future research in VRFB studies.
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