Sustainable zinc–air battery chemistry: advances, challenges and prospects

Q Wang, S Kaushik, X **ao, Q Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Sustainable zinc–air batteries (ZABs) are considered promising energy storage devices
owing to their inherent safety, high energy density, wide operating temperature window …

Cellulose-based ionic conductor: An emerging material toward sustainable devices

Y Ye, L Yu, E Lizundia, Y Zhu, C Chen… - Chemical …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Ionic conductors (ICs) find widespread applications across different fields, such as smart
electronic, ionotronic, sensor, biomedical, and energy harvesting/storage devices, and …

Hydrotropic solubilization of zinc acetates for sustainable aqueous battery electrolytes

D Dong, T Wang, Y Sun, J Fan, YC Lu - Nature Sustainability, 2023‏ - nature.com
Among the more sustainable battery chemistries, the aqueous zinc system is receiving
renewed interest. To accelerate the practical applications of this promising technology, an …

Addition of dioxane in electrolyte promotes (002)-textured zinc growth and suppressed side reactions in zinc-ion batteries

T Wei, Y Ren, Y Wang, L Mo, Z Li, H Zhang, L Hu… - ACS …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
The reversibility and cyclability of aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) are largely determined
by the stabilization of the Zn anode. Therefore, a stable anode/electrolyte interface capable …

Production of gas-releasing electrolyte-replenishing Ah-scale zinc metal pouch cells with aqueous gel electrolyte

F Wang, J Zhang, H Lu, H Zhu, Z Chen, L Wang… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Aqueous zinc batteries are ideal candidates for grid-scale energy storage because of their
safety and low-cost aspects. However, the production of large-format aqueous Zn batteries is …

A eutectic electrolyte for an ultralong-lived Zn//V 2 O 5 cell: an in situ generated gradient solid-electrolyte interphase

C Meng, WD He, H Tan, XL Wu, H Liu… - Energy & Environmental …, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Turbulent interfacial evolution at the Zn anode/electrolyte, leading to rampant dendrites and
parasitic reactions, is responsible for low Coulombic efficiency (CE) and premature failure in …

Reversible Zn metal anodes enabled by trace amounts of underpotential deposition initiators

Y Dai, C Zhang, W Zhang, L Cui, C Ye… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Routine electrolyte additives are not effective enough for uniform zinc (Zn) deposition,
because they are hard to proactively guide atomic‐level Zn deposition. Here, based on …

Interfacial molecule engineering for reversible Zn electrochemistry

TC Li, C Lin, M Luo, P Wang, DS Li, S Li… - ACS Energy …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
The unstable Zn interface caused by undesired dendrites and parasitic side reactions
greatly impedes the deployment of aqueous Zn metal batteries. Herein, an efficient …

Chloride electrolyte enabled practical zinc metal battery with a near-unity Coulombic efficiency

H Jiang, L Tang, Y Fu, S Wang, SK Sandstrom… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Rechargeable aqueous zinc batteries are finding their niche in stationary storage
applications where safety, cost, scalability and carbon footprint matter most. However …

Co-solvent electrolyte engineering for stable anode-free zinc metal batteries

F Ming, Y Zhu, G Huang, AH Emwas… - Journal of the …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Anode-free metal batteries can in principle offer higher energy density, but this requires
them to have extraordinary Coulombic efficiency (> 99.7%). Although Zn-based metal …