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A novel hafnium boride catalyst for vanadium redox flow battery

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Vanadium redox flow batteries have the advantages of long life, flexible design, safety, and reliability, so they have broad development prospects in the field of energy storage. Borides are extensively used in electrochemistry due to their excellent electrical conductivity. In this program, HfB2 was used as catalyst for the V3+/V2+ pair. The catalytic effect was verified by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and cyclic voltammetry. The result shows that the cell using HfB2 as negative catalyst can exhibit excellent rate capability when the current density is 50 ~ 125 mA cm−2. At 125 mA cm−2, the discharge capacity of the modified cell is 68.7 mA h, which is much higher than pristine cell (22.8 mA h). And the energy efficiency of pristine cells is 11.2% lower than that of modified cells. These consequences suggest that HfB2 is a catalyst with promising prospects to enhance electrochemical activity of V3+/V2+ redox reaction in VRFB.

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This work was financially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51872090, 51772097), Hebei Natural Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholar (No. E2019209433), Youth Talent Program of Hebei Provincial Education Department (No. BJ2018020), Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (No. E2020209151), and Science and Technology Project of Hebei Education Department (SLRC2019028).

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    Jiayi Gao, Yujie Yang, Yujie Ren, Wenjie Zhu, Jin Li, Yongguang Liu, Lei Dai, Ling Wang & Zhangxing He

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    Yongguang Liu, Lei Dai, Ling Wang & Zhangxing He

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Gao, J., Yang, Y., Ren, Y. et al. A novel hafnium boride catalyst for vanadium redox flow battery. Ionics 28, 4273–4282 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-022-04656-7

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