The development energy storage systems that can support the intermittent load of wind and photovoltaic electricity represents a grand challenge for scientists and engineers. Redox flow batteries offer an exciting potential solution to this challenge. These batteries consist of solutions of anolyte and catholyte materials that are pumped over inert electrodes during charge/discharge the battery and then stored in separate vessels. These anolyte and catholyte materials are typically inorganic or organic molecules. As such, there are tremendous opportunities for synthetic chemists to design and synthesize structures to achieve the optimal redox potentials, stability profiles, electrochemical properties, and solubilities required for commercial implementation of these systems. This presentation will describe our recent progress and remaining challenges in this area.<br/>

Challenges and opportunities for synthetic chemists in grid-scale energy storage

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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