Bio-Inspired Battery Could Help Green the Grid

Quinones could be the key to flow batteries.

By Katherine Bourzac
Nov 26, 2014 6:00 AMNov 12, 2019 4:53 AM
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A prototype metal-free flow battery developed by engineer Michael Aziz and colleagues at Harvard University relies on the electrochemistry of naturally abundant, small organic molecules to store electricity generated from renewable, intermittent energy sources. | Eliza Grinnell/SEAS Communications

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