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An asymmetric electrolyte to simultaneously meet contradictory requirements of anode and cathode

Nature Communications, 2023
One of the major obstacles hindering the application of zinc metal batteries is the contradictory demands from the Zn metal anode and cathodes.
Shengmei Chen, Yiran Ying, Longtao Ma, Daming Zhu, Haitao Huang, Li Song, Chunyi Zhi   +6 more
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An in-depth understanding of improvement strategies and corresponding characterizations towards Zn anode in aqueous Zn-ions batteries

Green Energy & Environment, 2023
Combining the unique advantages of aqueous electrolytes and metallic Zn anode, rechargeable aqueous Zn-ion batteries (ZIBs) are of great promise for large-scale energy storage applications due to their inherent high safety, low cost, and environmental ...
Yuzhu Chu, Lingxiao Ren, Zhenglin Hu, Chengde Huang, Jiayan Luo   +4 more
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The d(10) route to dye-sensitized solar cells: step-wise assembly of zinc(II) photosensitizers on TiO2 surfaces [PDF]

, 2012
Dye-sensitized solar cells have been assembled using a sequential approach: a TiO2 surface was functionalized with an anchoring ligand, followed by metallation with Zn(OAc)(2) or ZnCl2, and subsequent capping with a chromophore functionalized 2,2`:6`,2 ``
Bozic-Weber, Biljana, Constable, Edwin C., Hostettler, Nik, Housecroft, Catherine E., Schmitt, Ralf, Schoenhofer, Ewald   +5 more
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Enabling Stable Zn Anodes by Molecularly Engineering the Inner Helmholtz Plane with Amphiphilic Dibenzenesulfonimide Additive

Advanced Science, 2023
The notorious dendrite growth and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) are considered as main barriers that hinder the stability of the Zn‐metal anode.
Jun Yang, Zhiqiang Han, Zhiqiang Wang, Liying Song, Busheng Zhang, Hongming Chen, Xing Li, Woon‐Ming Lau, Dan Zhou   +8 more
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Electrochemical processes and systems: application for tutors [PDF]

, 1997
The features of redox reactions and the principles of their balancing according to the medium composition are considered. The basic representations about electrochemical processes and systems are outlined. The reactions and principles of chemical sources
Beccard, R., Guttzeit, A., Heime, K., Heuken, M., Schineller, B., Schön, O.   +5 more
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Surface-Alloyed Nanoporous Zinc as Reversible and Stable Anodes for High-Performance Aqueous Zinc-Ion Battery

Nano-Micro Letters, 2022
Metallic zinc (Zn) is one of the most attractive multivalent-metal anode materials in post-lithium batteries because of its high abundance, low cost and high theoretical capacity. However, it usually suffers from large voltage polarization, low Coulombic
Huan Meng, Qing Ran, Tian-Yi Dai, Hang Shi, Shu-Pei Zeng, Yong-Fu Zhu, Zi Wen, Wei Zhang, Xing-You Lang, Wei-Tao Zheng, Qing Jiang   +10 more
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Towards the practical application of Zn metal anodes for mild aqueous rechargeable Zn batteries

Chemical Science, 2022
This perspective article focuses on discussing several “less-developed” but important topics for Zn anodes and try to present readers a practical angle to look at the development of aqueous Zn batteries.
Ning Dong, Fenglin Zhang, Huilin Pan
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Construction of zinc metal-Tin sulfide polarized interface for stable Zn metal batteries

Advanced Powder Materials, 2023
Aqueous Zn metal batteries have become competitive electrochemical energy storage systems owing to their material abundance, low cost, high capacity, and nontoxicity.
Yingzhu Hu, Chunyan Fu, Simin Chai, Qiong He, Yijiang Wang, Mingyang Feng, Yifang Zhang, Anqiang Pan   +7 more
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Sulfolane-containing aqueous electrolyte solutions for producing efficient ampere-hour-level zinc metal battery pouch cells

Nature Communications, 2023
The negative electrode reversibility limits the lifespan of Zn metal batteries. Here, authors report an aqueous electrolyte with a reverse micelle structure that improves the reversibility of the Zn metal anode enabling the production of an ampere-hour ...
Yu Wang, Tairan Wang, Shuyu Bu, Jiaxiong Zhu, Yanbo Wang, Rong Zhang, Hu Hong, Wenjun Zhang, Jun Fan, Chunyi Zhi   +9 more
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Zinc battery goes to anode-free

Nano Research Energy, 2023
The zinc (Zn) batteries have challenges include uncontrollable dendritic growth, unreasonable negative to positive ratio and limited areal capacity. This highlight presents the latest development to resolve the uncontrollable Zn dendrite formation at ...
Xinhua Zheng, Ruihao Luo, Wei Chen
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