… are a „green“ and sustainable alternative to conventional stationary battery systems.
By employing organic polymers toxic heavy metals can be omitted and inexpensive resources utilized. Traditional battery-metals like lead, lithium, vanadium or nickel/cadmium impose a burden on the environment. Not only is their disposal/recycling problematic, but also mining of the metal ores comes along with problems ranging from erosion to contamination of groundwater.
Organic polymers show a reduced environmental impact as life-cycle assessments demonstrate. The use of polymers will become increasingly economic as the prices for high-demand resources commonly used in battery manufacturing will rise in the coming years.
... are investigated in a new research project
Safe and economic redox-flow batteries using novel electrolytes based on (hyper)branched polymers for the storage of electrical power from eco-friendly sources such as photovoltaic and wind farms
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JenaBatteries started a new joint research project with partners from academia and industry. The project (2015 FE 9110) is supported by the State of Thuringia and co-funded by the European Union and the European Regional Development Fund. More information.
IQ Innovation Award
JenaBatteries was awarded the "IQ Innovationspreis Mitteldeutschland 2015" in the category...
Publication in Nature
In the renowned world-leading scientific journal 'Nature' the concept of the revolutionary, polymer-based...
Novel Polymer-Redox-Flow-Batteries
Stationary energy storage systems employing the modern redox-flow-battery (RFB) technology are a sustainable and cost-effective way to cope with growing deployment of renewable energy sources as well as the development of smart grids.