Rechargeable Hydrogen-Chlorine Battery Operates in a Wide Temperature Range

Hydrogen-chlorine (H2-Cl2) fuel cells have distinct merits due to fast electrochemical kinetics but are afflicted by high cost, low efficiency, and poor reversibility. The development of a rechargeable H2-Cl2 battery is highly desirable yet challenging. Here, we report a rechargeable H2-Cl2 battery operating statically in a wide temperature ranging from -70 to 40 °C, which is enabled by a reversible Cl2/Cl- redox cathode and an electrocatalytic H2 anode. A hierarchically porous carbon cathode is designed to achieve effective Cl2 gas confinement and activate the discharge plateau of Cl2/Cl- redox at room temperature, with a discharge plateau at ∼1.15 V and steady cycling for over 500 cycles without capacity decay. Furthermore, the battery operation at an ultralow temperature is successfully achieved in a phosphoric acid-based antifreezing electrolyte, with a reversible discharge capacity of 282 mAh g-1 provided by the highly porous carbon at -70 °C and an average Coulombic efficiency of 91% for more than 300 cycles at -40 °C. This work offers a new strategy to enhance the reversibility of aqueous chlorine batteries for energy storage applications in a wide temperature range.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:145

Enthalten in:

Journal of the American Chemical Society - 145(2023), 46 vom: 22. Nov., Seite 25422-25430

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Xie, Zehui [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Zhengxin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Zaichun [VerfasserIn]
Sajid, Muhammad [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Na [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Mingming [VerfasserIn]
Meng, Yahan [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Qia [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Shuang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Weiping [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Taoli [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Wei [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Journal Article

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 22.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/jacs.3c09819

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM363699732