PMID- 32536164 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20200702 IS - 1948-7185 (Electronic) IS - 1948-7185 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 13 DP - 2020 Jul 2 TI - A CO(2)-Assisted Sodium-Phenanthrenequinone Battery. PG - 5350-5353 LID - 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01346 [doi] AB - Future society will need more energy storage than what the current technology can deliver and also need more efficient approaches to mitigate CO(2) emission and its consequent climate change. Here we report a new concept of sodium-phenanthrenequinone (Na-PQ) battery that can capture CO(2) to heighten its load voltage and specific energy upon discharge and reversibly release CO(2) on recharge. A mechanistic study, combining spectroelectrochemistry and theoretical calculation, reveals that CO(2) is involved in the discharge reaction by bonding to the carbonyl moieties (C horizontal lineO) of the reduced PQ species (PQ(2-) in particular), which lowers the energy of the final discharge product PQ(2-)CO(2)(Na(+))(2) and therefore increases the formal potential of the redox couple PQ(-)Na(+)/PQ(2-)CO(2)(Na(+))(2). The CO(2)-assisted Na-PQ battery reported here exemplifies that electrochemical energy storage would have great potential to address one of the grand challenges (i.e., CO(2) mitigation, utilization, and storage) facing human society in the 21st century and beyond. FAU - Wang, Liang AU - Wang L AD - State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China. AD - University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China. FAU - Zhang, Xu AU - Zhang X AD - School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China. FAU - Huang, Jun AU - Huang J AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1668-5361 AD - State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China. FAU - Guo, Limin AU - Guo L AD - State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China. AD - Institute for Biomass Functional Materials Interdisciplinary Studies, Jilin Engineering Normal University, Changchun 130052, China. FAU - Zhou, Zhen AU - Zhou Z AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3232-9903 AD - State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China. AD - School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China. FAU - Peng, Zhangquan AU - Peng Z AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-4338-314X AD - State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Changchun, Jilin 130022, China. AD - University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China. AD - School of Applied Physics and Materials, Wuyi University, Jiangmen 529020, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20200622 PL - United States TA - J Phys Chem Lett JT - The journal of physical chemistry letters JID - 101526034 SB - IM EDAT- 2020/06/17 06:00 MHDA- 2020/06/17 06:01 CRDT- 2020/06/16 06:00 PHST- 2020/06/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2020/06/17 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2020/06/16 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01346 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Phys Chem Lett. 2020 Jul 2;11(13):5350-5353. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01346. Epub 2020 Jun 22.