Flow Batteries

Liu’s lab in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE) developed a more compact flow battery cell configuration that reduces the size of the cell by 75%, and correspondingly reduces the size and cost of the entire flow battery.

Smaller and cheaper flow batteries could revolutionize how everything from major commercial buildings to residential homes are powered

The cycle of decomposition and recomposition. During normal charge and discharge, the zombie molecule oscillates between its DHAQ2- form (left) and its DHAQ4- form (bottom center). When it decomposes, it turns into DHA2- (right). A voltage pulse resets the decomposed molecules (right) back to their original form (left). Credit: Yan Jing/Harvard SEAS

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