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Redox flow batteries go organic

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The use of renewable resources as providers to the electrical grid is hampered by the intermittent and irregular nature in which they generate energy. Electrical energy storage technology could provide a solution and now, by using an iterative design process, a promising anolyte for use in redox flow batteries has been developed.

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Figure 1: Developing anolytes for redox flow batteries.

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  1. Wei Wang and Vince Sprenkle are in the Energy Process and Materials Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PO Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, USA,

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Wang, W., Sprenkle, V. Redox flow batteries go organic. Nature Chem 8, 204–206 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2466

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