1994
(Invited) Composite Lithium-Conductive Latp+Pvdf Membranes: Development, Optimization, and Applicability for Li-Hybrid Redox Flow Batteries

Monday, 30 May 2022: 10:40
West Meeting Room 119 (Vancouver Convention Center)
K. J. Stevenson (Skoltech Center for Energy Science and Technology), E. Romadina (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology), N. Akhmetov, N. Ovsyannikov (Skolkolvo Institute of Science and Technology), N. Gvozdik, and M. Pogosova (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology)
Lithium metal hybrid flow batteries (Li-HFBs) represent a very promising type of RFBs distinguished by improved energy and power density and simplified set-up. Unfortunately, the absence of a highly conductive and stable membrane hinders Li-HFBs evolution. This talk will describe the development of Li1.3Al0.3Ti1.7(PO4)3-poly(vinylidene fluoride) composite membranes and will demonstrate their applicability for Li-HFBs. The easily fabricated membranes demonstrate high ionic conductivity of 3.4 ∙ 10-4 S cm-1 (in contrast with 0.74 and 0.16 ∙ 10-4 S cm-1 of commercially available Nafion and Neosepta, correspondingly) and improved stability towards metallic lithium. The hybrid Li-TEMPO cell with composite membrane shows stable coulombic and energy efficiency (over 95 and 73%, respectively), moderate capacity decay from 2.5 to 1.4 Ah L-1 (preliminarily associated with membrane’s permeability), and no membrane degradation after 100 charge/discharge cycles. The combination of functional features established for the proposed composite membranes makes them promising for Li-HFBs, as well as for other energy storage devices, and can potentially accelerate their introduction to the energy storage market.