Comprehensive review of electrolyte modification strategies for stabilizing Zn metal anodes

Y Liang, M Qiu, P Sun, W Mai - Advanced Functional Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In response to the need of sustainable development, there is an increasing demand for
electrical energy storage, leading to a stimulated pursuit of advanced batteries. Aqueous …

Roadmap for rechargeable batteries: present and beyond

S **n, X Zhang, L Wang, H Yu, X Chang… - Science China …, 2024 - Springer
Rechargeable batteries currently hold the largest share of the electrochemical energy
storage market, and they play a major role in the sustainable energy transition and industrial …

Hydrogen-bond chemistry in rechargeable batteries

T Sun, Q Nian, X Ren, Z Tao - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Since the hydrogen bond (HB) was proposed and confirmed by chemists in the 1920s, it has
played a very important role in the fields of chemistry, biology, physics, and materials …

Guiding Zn Uniform Deposition with Polymer Additives for Long‐lasting and Highly Utilized Zn Metal Anodes

D Feng, Y Jiao, P Wu - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The parasitic side reaction on Zn anode is the key issue which hinders the development of
aqueous Zn‐based energy storage systems on power‐grid applications. Here, a polymer …

Preferred planar crystal growth and uniform solid electrolyte interfaces enabled by anion receptors for stable aqueous Zn batteries

X Wang, Y Ying, X Li, S Chen, G Gao… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the intrinsic safety, abundant resource and low cost of Zn anodes and aqueous
electrolytes, the implementation of rechargeable aqueous Zn batteries is still hampered by …

Regulating water activity for all‐climate aqueous zinc‐ion batteries

Y Wang, L Mo, X Zhang, Y Ren, T Wei… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Suppressing the water activity is challenging to achieve high‐performing aqueous zinc ion
batteries (AZIBs), especially for its practical climate adaptability. Reconstructing the H‐bond …

Designing a solubility-limited small organic molecule for aqueous zinc-organic batteries

T Sun, W Zhang, Z Zha, M Cheng, D Li, Z Tao - Energy Storage Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Aiming at the issue that the organic cathode of aqueous zinc-organic batteries (AZOBs) is
easy to dissolve, a solubility-limited dibenzo [a, c] dibenzo [5, 6: 7, 8] quinoxalino [2, 3-i] …

Entropy‐driven hydrated eutectic electrolytes with diverse solvation configurations for all‐temperature Zn‐ion batteries

M Qiu, Y Liang, J Hong, J Li, P Sun… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Batteries always encounter uncontrollable failure or performance decay under extreme
temperature environments, which is largely limited by the properties of electrolytes. Herein …

Improvements and Challenges of Hydrogel Polymer Electrolytes for Advanced Zinc Anodes in Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries

H Peng, D Wang, F Zhang, L Yang, X Jiang, K Zhang… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) are widely regarded as desirable energy storage devices
due to their inherent safety and low cost. Hydrogel polymer electrolytes (HPEs) are cross …

Strong replaces weak: Design of H-bond interactions enables cryogenic aqueous Zn metal batteries

C Zhu, X He, Y Shi, Z Wang, B Hao, W Chen, H Yang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite the numerous advantages of aqueous Zn batteries, their practical application under
cryogenic conditions is hindered by the freezing of the electrolyte because the abundance of …