微乳液
化学
电解质
氧化还原
脉冲场梯度
扩散
水溶液
电化学
甲苯
化学工程
二茂铁
肺表面活性物质
双水相体系
传质
分析化学(期刊)
电极
无机化学
热力学
色谱法
有机化学
物理化学
分子
工程类
物理
生物化学
作者
Xiaochen Shen,Nicholas Scott Sinclair,Jesse S. Wainright,Adam Imel,Brian Barth,Thomas A. Zawodzinski,Robert F. Savinell
标识
DOI:10.1149/1945-7111/ac0b26
摘要
Redox flow batteries (RFBs) possess multiple advantages as a flexible energy storage solution. However, RFB researchers are still facing many challenges in finding an appropriate electrolyte. Microemulsions have recently been proposed as a promising alternative RFB electrolyte because of their ability to accommodate organic redox species with fast electron transfer rates that are not soluble in aqueous phase, while still offering the high conductivity of an aqueous salt electrolyte. In this work, we focused on understanding the transport of ferrocene (Fc) in a toluene/Tween 20/1-butanol/water model microemulsion and studied the compositional influence on Fc diffusion. The results show that Fc redistributes among the oil, surfactant, and water microenvironments, and the corresponding diffusion and partition coefficients are quantified. Thus, a tortuous path diffusion model is proposed to describe the mass transport of Fc to an electrode surface. Diffusion coefficients are also obtained by pulsed-field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance (PFG NMR), while the values for Fc diffusion are substantially higher than those from electrochemical measurements, suggesting that they measure samples in different ways. The current contributions from each microenvironment indicate that the Fc permeability is much higher in the oil, even though the electron transfer reaction is likely occurring in the surfactant.
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