Flow Battery Breakthrough Could Reshape Renewable Energy Landscape
A scientist at Queen’s University Belfast has developed a battery that could potentially reshape the renewable energy landscape. The 3-D printed flow battery is designed to combat a challenge that threatens the battery industry’s longevity: raw material scarcity. While lithium-ion batteries, which use solid electrodes to store energy, flow batteries employ liquid electrodes that make them extremely durable and highly scalable. However, their scalability is hampered by the constrained supply of vanadium, a metallic element needed in flow battery construction. Flow batteries could be critical to addressing renewable energy intermittency at a massive scale, but raw material scarcity makes them…
