Membranes for redox flow battery applications

Membranes

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 275-306

  Prifti, Helen ^a   Parasuraman, Aishwarya ^b   Winardi, Suminto ^b   Lim, Tuti Mariana ^b,c   Skyllas Kazacos, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Energy; Ionic conductivity; Membrane; Redox flow batteries; Stability

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL STABILITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ION EXCHANGE; IONIC CONDUCTIVITY; MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY; MEMBRANES; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ALL VANADIUM REDOX FLOW BATTERY; BATTERY APPLICATIONS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; ELECTRICITY GRIDS; ENERGY; INTEGRATE RENEWABLE ENERGIES; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS;

FLOW BATTERIES;

EID: 84865228642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20770375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/membranes2020275     Document Type: Review

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