Abstract
Sulfonated polyether ether ketone (SPEEK) membranes have attracted much attention as ion exchange membranes for vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) owing to their affordability and low vanadium permeability. It's noted that they suffer from poor proton conductivity at low degree of sulfonation (DS) while poor mechanical stability at high DS. Therefore, it is a challenge to balance their performance and DS. In this work, functionalized carbon black (FCB) particles with sulfonic acid substituents were prepared and used as fillers to obtain advanced SPEEK composite membranes. This kind of SPEEK/FCB composite membranes show outstanding ion selectivity, low vanadium permeability, high proton conductivity and excellent stability. The VRFB cell with the optimized SPEEK/FCB composite membrane shows high energy efficiency (94.26%, at 50 mA cm−2), low-capacity fade rate (0.052% per cycle, at 120 mA cm−2) and long cycle life.
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