Recent progress of dendrite‐free stable zinc anodes for advanced zinc‐based rechargeable batteries: fundamentals, challenges, and perspectives

X Wang, C Sun, ZS Wu - SusMat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Zinc‐based batteries are a very promising class of next‐generation electrochemical energy
storage systems, with high safety, eco‐friendliness, abundant resources, and the absence of …

Electrolyte additives for stable Zn anodes

S Bai, Z Huang, G Liang, R Yang, D Liu… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Zn‐ion batteries are regarded as the most promising batteries for next‐generation, large‐
scale energy storage because of their low cost, high safety, and eco‐friendly nature. The use …

Ten concerns of Zn metal anode for rechargeable aqueous zinc batteries

X Yu, Z Li, X Wu, H Zhang, Q Zhao, H Liang, H Wang… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Thousands of articles have been reported to enhance the electrochemical
stability/reversibility of the Zn-metal anode (ZMA). However, some scientific concepts …

Highly reversible zinc metal anode in a dilute aqueous electrolyte enabled by a pH buffer additive

W Zhang, Y Dai, R Chen, Z Xu, J Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aqueous zinc‐ion batteries have drawn increasing attention due to the intrinsic safety, cost‐
effectiveness and high energy density. However, parasitic reactions and non‐uniform …

A dual‐functional organic electrolyte additive with regulating suitable overpotential for building highly reversible aqueous zinc ion batteries

Z Liu, R Wang, Q Ma, J Wan, S Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aqueous zinc ion batteries (AZIBs) with high safety, low cost, and eco‐friendliness
advantages show great potential in large‐scale energy storage systems. However, their …

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 …

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 …

Realizing textured zinc metal anodes through regulating electrodeposition current for aqueous zinc batteries

W Yuan, X Nie, G Ma, M Liu, Y Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Crystallography modulation of zinc (Zn) metal anode is promising to promote Zn reversibility
in aqueous electrolytes, but efficiently constructing Zn with specific crystallographic texture …

Step by Step Induced Growth of Zinc‐Metal Interface on Graphdiyne for Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Batteries

X Luan, L Qi, Z Zheng, Y Gao, Y Xue… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rechargeable aqueous zinc ion batteries (AZIBs) promise high energy density, low redox
potential, low cost and safety; however, their cycle performances are seriously insufficient to …

Selection criteria for electrical double layer structure regulators enabling stable Zn metal anodes

C Huang, X Zhao, Y Hao, Y Yang, Y Qian… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Regulating the electrical double layer (EDL) structure via electrolyte additives is a promising
strategy to improve the cycling stability of Zn anodes, but there are no general strategies that …