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Progress in Chemistry 2021, Vol. 33 Issue (3): 462-470 DOI: 10.7536/PC200567 Previous Articles   Next Articles

• Review •

Ion-Conducting Membrane for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries

Feiran Wang1, Fengjing Jiang1,*()   

  1. 1 Institute of Fuel Cell, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai 200240, China
  • Received: Revised: Online: Published:
  • Contact: Fengjing Jiang
  • Supported by:
    the Key Research and Develop Project of Hainan Province(ZDYF2019004)
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With the continuous development of renewable energy technology, vanadium redox flow battery, as a large-scale energy storage device with great development prospects, has widely drawn attention of domestic and foreign scholars. Ion-conducting membrane is one of the important components of vanadium redox flow battery, which has a key influence on the performance, life time and cost of the battery. Based on the research work reported domestically and abroad, this review reports in detail the research and application progress as well as the technical problems of ion-conducting membrane for vanadium redox flow battery. In addition, some new developments of ion-conducting membrane for vanadium redox flow battery are introduced.

Contents

1 Introduction

2 Performance requirements of ion?conducting membrane

3 Perfluorosulfonic acid ion exchange membrane

3.1 Modification of inorganic particles

3.2 Polymer blending

3.3 Porous matrix filling

4 Partial fluorination ion exchange membrane

5 Non?fluoride ion exchange membrane

6 Porous ion?conducting membrane

7 Conclusion and prospect

Key words: vanadium redox flow battery, ion exchange membrane, porous membrane, large-scale energy storage technology
Fig.1 Diagram of structure of vanadium redox flow battery
Fig.2 Illustration of the formation process of porous SPES membrane[43]
Fig.3 Scheme of preparation of SPES/S-ZrO2 composite membranes[58]
Fig.4 Diagram of the preparation process of PVDF ion-conducting membranes[34]
Table 1 Battery performance of different ion-conducting membranes
Membrane material Battery performance
CE(%) VE(%) EE(%) Current density
(mA·cm-2) 		Cycle
number 		Capacity
retention
ratio(%)
Perfluorosulfonic acid ion exchange membrane
Nafion117[14] 93 85 79 80 200 50
Nafion/SiO2[17] > N117[17] > N117[17] 79.9 60 100 Nearly
No decay[17]
Nafion/NdZr(1%)/[P-S]2[21] 92.7 82.8 76.8 80 200 73.4
Nafion/PEI[22] 93.18 45.2 48.51 20 / /
Nafion/PVDF[24] > r-Nafion[24] > r-Nafion[24] 85 80 / /
Nafion/polyolefin[27] 97 81 78.6 40 500 /
Partial fluorination ion exchange membrane
PVDF-g-PSSA[29] > N117[29] > N117[29] 75.8 30 200 No decay[29]
PVDF/SiO2-SO3H[31] 90.3 83.7 75.6 60 >30 /
PVDF/PBI[33] > N212[33] ≈N212[33] 79 80 200 /
Non-fluoride(hydrocarbon) ion exchange membrane
PID30-g-SPVA[41] > N117[41] > N117[41] 80.4 30 100 /
SPES/IL[43] 98.8 85.1 84.1 100 160 /
QA-OMPAEK[48] 96.9 87.5 84.8 50 60 83.8
CMPSF/β-CD[50] 99 80.8 80 120 50 /
SPEEK/PBI[53] 99.9 80.2 80.1 180 350 /
Porous ion-conducting membrane
PVDF(H2O/EtOH)[64] 93 85 79 80 50 /
PES/SPEEK[67] 98.5 91.7 90.4 80 >500 /
CMPSF/TMA[70] >99 >80 >80 80 >1500 > N115[70]
PVDF-HFP/PVP[72] 98.16 89.66 88.01 80 160 > N115[72]
PVDF[74] 90 88 80 / >650 /
PVDF[34] 96 81 78 100 200 /
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