Organic Mega Flow Battery Transcends Lifetime, Voltage Thresholds
Dubbed ‘Methuselah’, new molecule outlives previous chemistries. Researchers have demonstrated a new organic molecule that outlives and outperforms its predecessors, offering the longest-lasting high-performance organic flow battery to date. Nicknamed the Methuselah quinone – after the longest-lived Biblical figure – this molecule could usefully store and release energy many tens of thousands of times over multi-year periods. Organic flow batteries are a potentially safer, less expensive alternative to lithium ion batteries and vanadium flow batteries for large-scale renewable energy storage.
“We designed and built a new organic compound that can store electrical energy and also has a very long life before it decomposes,” sa...
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