Water-soluble pH-switchable cobalt complexes for aqueous symmetric redox flow batteries.

Chem Commun (Camb)

Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, 11227 Saskatchewan Drive, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada.

Published: March 2020

A water soluble octahedral Co(ii) complex, BCPIP-Co(ii), with 4 appended carboxylic groups on the ligand periphery is utilized as both posolyte and negolyte in an aqueous, symmetric redox flow battery (RFB). The full RFB demonstrates coulombic efficiencies >99% for up to 100 cycles.

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