Li Hongbin, Fan Hao, Ravivarma Mahalingam, Hu Bo, Feng Yangyang, Song Jiangxuan
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Shaanxi International Research Center for Soft Matter, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2020 Nov 18;56(89):13824-13827. doi: 10.1039/d0cc05133k. Epub 2020 Oct 20.
An organic dye, Basic blue 3 (BB3), was reported for the first time as a two-electron catholyte for aqueous redox flow batteries. The exceptional stability of BB3 enabled the full battery to achieve a high capacity retention of >99.991% per cycle during 1500 cycles.