Hi Everyone,
This Friday at 2:30 in the Division room we'll be having our last
group meeting of the year. Our very own Dr. Süleyman Er will be
presenting:
Flow Batteries for Grid-Scale Electrical Energy Storage
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Flow batteries are a promising technology for grid-scale electrical
energy storage in the face of rising electricity production from
intermittent renewables such as wind and solar. In this presentation,
I will concentrate on a particular type of flow battery, the
hydrogen-halogen flow battery. First, I will describe some of the very
recent experimental work to develop new alloy oxide materials that
catalyze the redox reactions in hydrogen-chlorine flow batteries.
Next, I will present our results that are obtained from
first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. The
common aim is to find inexpensive materials that would increase the
power density of flow batteries. Theoretical predictions are used both
to gain insight into the electronic properties of the existing alloy
oxides and to guide new experiments on the development of efficient
electrocatalysts for hydrogen-halogen flow batteries.
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Ryan Babbush | PhD Student in Chemistry
(949) 331-3943 | babbush(a)fas.harvard.edu
Harvard University | Aspuru-Guzik Research Group
12 Oxford Street, Box 400 | Cambridge, MA 02138
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