Review Article

Recent Development of Nanocomposite Membranes for Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries

Table 2

Comparison of general properties between prefunctionalized nanocomposite and functionalized nanocomposite membranes.

Membranes [ref. #]VO2+ permeability
(×10−7 cm2⋅min−1)
Conductivity (mS⋅cm−1)/
area resistance (Ω⋅cm2)
CE (%) 
@40 mA⋅cm−2
VE (%) 
@40 mA⋅cm−2
EE (%) 
@40 mA⋅cm−2

Nafion/amino-SiO2 [78]2.32—/3.45≈91≈79≈73
SPI/PEI-rGO-2 [79]≈7.5≈6.2/—95≈7975.6
SPI/GO-4 [79]—/—≈90≈72.5≈70
SPI/s-MoS2 [81]1.2327.5/—≈91≈82≈75
SPI/MoS2 [81]2.0221.5/—≈89≈81≈72