A kind of method of graphite felt electrode phosphorus doping used for all-vanadium redox flow battery
Technical field
The present invention relates to the processing method of the graphite felt electrode in all-vanadium flow battery field, particularly a kind of method of graphite felt electrode phosphorus doping used for all-vanadium redox flow battery.
Background technology
In recent years, along with going deep into of studying material with carbon element, it is found that at material with carbon element body middle introducing oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur and phosphorus etc. mutually, the chemical property of material with carbon element, mechanical performance, optical property can be improved.And the foreign atoms such as oxygen, nitrogen, sulphur and phosphorus are introduced at carbon material surface, can significantly increase carbon material surface activity, make it in adsorption process of electric transmission flow and reaction medium etc., all show better performance, and then become the study hotspot of electrochemical cell electrode material.
The all-vanadium flow battery of present application adopts graphite felt as battery electrode usually.According to the knowledge of the applicant, graphite felt is not strong due to electro-chemical activity, needs to strengthen its electro-chemical activity by the method for modification.The method of conventional graphite felt modification, has air oxidation process, strong acid oxidizing process and ammoniation process etc.
Wherein, air oxidation process easily causes graphite felt surface etch; The corrosion of strong acid oxidizing process to graphite felt surface is even more serious, the technical method that document " chemical modification of graphite felt electrode and the electrochemical behavior in acid vanadium solution thereof " as being published in August, 2005 on China YouSe Acta Metallurgica Sinica is introduced, adopt the embody rule that strong acid oxidizing process processes graphite felt exactly, applicant finds through research, this technical method is applied to suitability for industrialized production, environmental requirement is high, and carbon fiber surface vigorous reaction can be caused, make fiber surface occur corrosion, the consequence reducing the materials'use life-span can be caused; And it is very tight to reaction condition requirement to adopt ammoniation process to carry out modification to graphite felt, a kind of ammoniated treatment method that master's thesis " all-vanadium flow battery graphite felt electrode study on the modification " of such as Central South University in 2011 is introduced is exactly like this, the method uses reactor to carry out ammoniated treatment to graphite felt, but after process, the nitrogen element content of graphite felt is not high, and reaction condition is very harsh.
At present, the research of mixing phosphorus in material with carbon element is less, one-step method is adopted to prepare thermosetting phenolic resin during the document being published in battery magazine in August, 2000 " mixes the preparation of phosphorus material with carbon element and embedding lithium behavior thereof ", determine suitable carburizing temperature by charge-discharge test, and then prepare the doping phenolic resins pyrolysis carbon of different phosphorus content.Result shows that the ordering degree of material with carbon element improves, and surface activity strengthens, and improves the embedding lithium ability of lithium battery.Wherein, phosphorus is mainly connected with carbocyclic ring with covalent bond, but the method belongs to body mixes, and if the method for graphite felt, modify to the preparation technology of graphite felt, the production process of graphite felt can be increased, reduce the production efficiency of graphite felt.
Chinese patent literature CN101182678A(number of patent application 200710202374.1) disclosed " graphite felt surface modifying method and modified graphite felt " provide a kind of modification processing method that simultaneously can improve graphite felt wettability and electro-chemical activity.The method adopts electrochemical cathode modification to combine to graphite felt electrode modifying surface with traditional Anodic modification, and its wettability and electro-chemical activity are improved, thus improves voltage efficiency and discharge performance in battery charge and discharge process.The graphite felt surface modifying treatment provided: first carry out electrochemical cathode modification before anodic oxidation modification.Further, comprise the following steps: the process of a. electrochemical cathode: take graphite felt as negative electrode, alkali lye is electrolyte, pass into direct current and electrochemical cathode modification is carried out to graphite felt, then with the alkali lye on distilled water cleaning graphite felt surface; B. electrochemical anodic oxidation modification: cleaned clean graphite felt is made anode, with the sulfuric acid solution of 0.05 ~ 4M for electrolyte, passes into direct current and carries out anodic oxidation modification to graphite felt.Need to clean the acid on its surface according to actual conditions needs and subsequent treatment, in order to clean more fast, totally wherein, the temperature passed in a step when direct current carries out electrochemical cathode modification to graphite felt is 50 ~ 90 DEG C, and current density is 75 ~ 160mA/cm
2, the processing time is 4 ~ l0min.Electrolyte described in a step is at least one in the strong base solution of alkali metal salt soln, 10 ~ 40g/l.Electrolyte can be selected: at least one in the sodium phosphate of the NaOH of 10 ~ 40g/l, the sodium carbonate of 0.1 ~ 20g/1,0.1 ~ 20g/1.The concrete kind that electrolyte adds and consumption, can carry out adjustment according to the needs of basicity and determine.In order to effectively process the larger graphite felt of lipophile, emulsifying agent 1 ~ 2g/l can be added in electrolyte described in a step.Mentioned emulsifier is preferably at least one in soap, odium stearate, lauryl sodium sulfate.Wherein, in b step, the concentration of sulfuric acid solution is preferably 1M.Modified graphite felt substantially improves electro-chemical activity as electrode in for the preparation of vanadium redox battery, improve the voltage efficiency of battery discharge, the efficiency of the energy content of battery, improve its stable discharging time simultaneously, thus the charge-discharge performance of vanadium redox battery is greatly improved; And the method operation is simple, do not need special installation, with low cost.It is carry out electrochemical cathode modification before anodic oxidation modification to the modification of graphite felt, but it uses NaOH and this kind of chemical substance with severe corrosive of sulfuric acid.When the sodium phosphate wherein used is as electrolyte, be that anode modification is carried out to graphite felt, increase the oxy radical quantity on graphite felt surface, instead of for increasing phosphorus element content in graphite felt surface.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is, for above-mentioned prior art Problems existing, propose and study a kind of method of graphite felt electrode phosphorus doping used for all-vanadium redox flow battery.The method environmental protection, is convenient to implement.The method, to graphite felt electrode surface modification, directly enhances the phosphorous number of functional groups in graphite felt surface participating in reaction, can effective controlled doping degree, and efficiency is high, and does not damage machinery and the chemical property of graphite felt.
Technical solution of the present invention is, adopt Ultrasonic Cleaning graphite felt, it is characterized in that, the graphite felt clean through Ultrasonic Cleaning is dried, by putting into reative cell after given size cutting as matrix or substrate, reative cell is vacuumized, the inert gas containing P elements is passed in reaction, adopt Linear ion beam source device or enclosed electronic cyclotron resonance plasma sputter equipment, by sputtering in phosphorous atmosphere, graphite felt is processed, thus increase the graphite felt phosphorous number of functional groups in surface and phosphorus element content.
It is characterized in that, the inert gas containing P elements passed in reaction is the argon gas containing part phosphorus compound.
It is characterized in that, adjusting reaction flow and reaction time by changing the flow of inert gas containing P elements and flow-rate ratio, reaction time, the voltage of instrument or current parameters.
It is characterized in that, reative cell vacuumizes rear air pressure need be less than 5 × 10
-5handkerchief, the flow velocity passing into the inert gas containing P elements is 10ml/min ~ 100ml/min.
It is characterized in that, the operating current of Linear ion beam source device is set to 0.1A ~ 0.5A, and operating voltage controls at 1400V ± 50V, and workpiece negative pressure is-100V ~-200V, and the operating time is 10min ~ 600min.
It is characterized in that, adopt enclosed electronic cyclotron resonance plasma sputter equipment, to put into the graphite felt of reative cell as substrate process time, substrate adopts floating potential, or adds the bias voltage of-120V ~+120V.
Innovative point of the present invention is: 1, adopt Linear ion beam source device or enclosed electronic cyclotron resonance plasma sputter equipment to process graphite felt.2, use the present invention to carry out phosphorating treatment to graphite felt, the phosphorus element content on graphite felt surface can be increased.3, the present invention can remove the impurity such as the amorphous carbon on graphite felt surface, and does not cause damage to graphite felt surface, thus effectively improves the chemism of graphite felt.
Advantage of the present invention is, novel, method environmental protection.The present invention processes graphite felt electrode, can remove the impurity on graphite felt surface on the one hand, increases the content of graphite felt surface P elements, improves the chemical property of graphite felt.The phosphorus of doping can enter in the carbon-coating space of graphite felt on the other hand, and improve the systematicness of material with carbon element, promote the cyclization process of graphite felt materials simultaneously, wetability and the electro-chemical activity of graphite felt can improve in phosphorous functional group, and increase the micropore quantity of graphite felt.
Embodiment
Below, embodiments of the invention are described in detail:
The present invention adopts Ultrasonic Cleaning graphite felt, the graphite felt clean through Ultrasonic Cleaning is dried, by putting into reative cell after given size cutting as matrix or substrate, reative cell is vacuumized, the inert gas containing P elements is passed into certain flow in reaction, adopting Linear ion beam source device or enclosed electronic cyclotron resonance plasma sputter equipment, by sputtering in phosphorous atmosphere, graphite felt being processed, thus increase the graphite felt phosphorous number of functional groups in surface and phosphorus element content.
Embodiment 1:
(1) graphite felt is put into deionized water, ultrasonic 15min, dry, then use deionized water rinsing, dry for standby.
(2) graphite felt being cut into suitable size is put into reative cell as matrix, vacuumized by reative cell, reative cell vacuumizes rear air pressure need be less than 5 × 10
-5handkerchief, pass into the argon gas (a kind of inert gas) containing 10% hydrogen phosphide with the speed of 30ml/min during reaction, the flow velocity passing into the inert gas containing P elements is 10ml/min ~ 100ml/min.The method adopting Linear ion beam source device to be sputtered by (linear ion bundle mixing magnetic control) is processed graphite felt surface.Wherein, the operating current of Linear ion beam source device is set to 0.2A, and operating voltage controls at 1400V ± 50V, and workpiece negative pressure is-200V, and the reaction time is 50min.
(3) distilled water is used to clean treated graphite felt, dry 12h in 120 DEG C of baking ovens.
The graphite felt using the present invention to obtain is as the electrode fabrication material of vanadium cell.
Embodiment 2:
(1) graphite felt is put into deionized water, ultrasonic 15min, dry, then use deionized water rinsing, dry for standby.
(2) graphite felt being cut into suitable size is put into reative cell as substrate, vacuumized by reative cell, reative cell vacuumizes rear air pressure need be less than 5 × 10
-5handkerchief, pass into the argon gas (a kind of inert gas) containing 10% hydrogen phosphide with the speed of 30ml/min during reaction, the flow velocity passing into the inert gas containing P elements is 10ml/min ~ 100ml/min.Adopt enclosed electronic cyclotron resonance plasma sputter equipment, the method sputtered by (enclosed electronic cyclotron resonance plasma) is processed graphite felt surface, and the reaction time is 200min.
Before process, the vacuum degree of reative cell is 2 × 10
-6pa, vacuum degree when reacting after insufflation gas is 2 × 10
-2pa.
(3) distilled water is used to clean treated graphite felt, dry 12h in 120 DEG C of baking ovens.
Adopt enclosed electronic cyclotron resonance plasma sputter equipment, to put into the graphite felt of reative cell as substrate process time, substrate can be floating potential, also can add the bias voltage of-120V ~+120V.
The graphite felt using the present invention to obtain is as the electrode fabrication material of vanadium cell.