Carbon dots promoted vanadium flow batteries for all-climate energy storage

Ying Zhou; Le Liu; Yi Shen; Lantao Wu; Lihong Yu; Feng Liang; Jingyu Xi

doi:10.1039/c7cc00691h

Carbon dots promoted vanadium flow batteries for all-climate energy storage

Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Jul 4;53(54):7565-7568. doi: 10.1039/c7cc00691h.

Authors

Ying Zhou¹, Le Liu, Yi Shen, Lantao Wu, Lihong Yu, Feng Liang, Jingyu Xi

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Green Chemistry and Energy, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China. xijy@tsinghua.edu.cn.

PMID: 28635999
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc00691h

Abstract

We report a one-pot solvothermal method to prepare a carbon dots decorated graphite felt (CDs/GF) electrode. The resulting CDs/GF shows excellent wettability and greatly enhanced activity towards vanadium redox couples. VFB with the CDs/GF electrode exhibits outstanding rate performance, superior cycling stability, and broad temperature adaptability from -20 to 60 °C.