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New material for catholytes and anolytes in organic redox flow batteries

2021-04-06
(Press-News.org) Researchers from Skoltech and their collaborators have designed, synthesized and evaluated new compounds that can serve as catholytes and anolytes for organic redox flow batteries, bringing this promising technology closer to large-scale implementation. The two papers were published in the END


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