Solid-Liquid-Gas Management for Low-Cost Hydrogen Gas Batteries

Aqueous nickel-hydrogen gas (Ni-H2) batteries with excellent durability (>10,000 cycles) are important candidates for grid-scale energy storage but are hampered by the high-cost Pt electrode with limited performance. Herein, we report a low-cost nickel-molybdenum (NiMo) alloy as an efficient bifunctional hydrogen evolution and oxidation reaction (HER/HOR) catalyst for Ni-H2 batteries in alkaline electrolytes. The NiMo alloy demonstrates a high HOR mass-specific kinetic current of 28.8 mA mg-1 at 50 mV as well as a low HER overpotential of 45 mV at a current density of 10 mA cm-2, which is better than most nonprecious metal catalysts. Furthermore, we apply a solid-liquid-gas management strategy to constitute a conductive, hydrophobic network of NiMo using multiwalled carbon nanotubes (NiMo-hydrophobic MWCNT) in the electrode to accelerate HER/HOR activities for much improved Ni-H2 battery performance. As a result, Ni-H2 cells based on the NiMo-hydrophobic MWCNT electrode show a high energy density of 118 Wh kg-1 and a low cost of only 67.5 $ kWh-1. With the low cost, high energy density, excellent durability, and improved energy efficiency, the Ni-H2 cells show great potential for practical grid-scale energy storage.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:17

Enthalten in:

ACS nano - 17(2023), 8 vom: 25. Apr., Seite 7821-7829

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jiang, Taoli [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Shuyang [VerfasserIn]
Li, Linxiang [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Xinhua [VerfasserIn]
Park, Sunhyeong [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Shuang [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Zhengxin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Zaichun [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Yahan [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Qia [VerfasserIn]
Feng, Yuancheng [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Wei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

HER/HOR catalysis
Hydrogen gas batteries
Journal Article
Large-scale energy storage
Low-cost hydrogen catalysts
Solid−liquid−gas management

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Date Completed 25.04.2023

Date Revised 25.04.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acsnano.3c00798

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM355266660