Sweet Success: Sugar Additive Boosts Flow Battery Performance

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s new flow battery design achieves long life and capacity for grid energy storage from renewable sources. A common food and medicine additive has shown it can boost the capacity and longevity of a next-generation flow battery design in a record-setting experiment. A research team from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory reports that the flow battery, a design optimized for electrical grid energy storage, maintained its capacity to store and release energy for more than…