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Highly Reversible Zn Metal Anodes Enabled by Increased Nucleation Overpotential

Nano-Micro Letters, 2023
AbstractDendrite formation severely compromises further development of zinc ion batteries. Increasing the nucleation overpotential plays a crucial role in achieving uniform deposition of metal ions. However, this strategy has not yet attracted enough attention from researchers to our knowledge.
Zhengqiang Hu, Fengling Zhang, Anbin Zhou, Xin Hu, Qiaoyi Yan, Yuhao Liu, Faiza Arshad, Zhujie Li, Renjie Chen, Feng Wu, Li Li   +10 more
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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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Zwitterionic Bifunctional Layer for Reversible Zn Anode

, 2022
A Zn metal anode suffers from severe dendrite issues and passive byproducts, which restrict the practical application of Zn-ion batteries. Herein, a bifunctional poly zwitterionic ionic liquid (PZIL) is designed as a new ion-migration layer to suppress ...
Xuan Zhou, Lin Xu, Liqiang Mai (1410586), Xuri Zuo, Xuri Zuo (12435164), Qin Liu, Renpeng Chen, Lin Xu (94491), Xuan Zhou (329338), Fang Liu, Renpeng Chen (2908775), Jianyong Zhang, Jianyong Zhang (1758853), Qin Liu (59805), Liqiang Mai, Fang Liu (13271)   +15 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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A thin and uniform fluoride-based artificial interphase for the Zinc metal anode enabling reversible Zn/MnO2 batteries

, 2021
Zn batteries have recently become of great interest as energy storage devices. However, their lifespan is limited by irreversible processes at the Zn anodes owing to side reactions and dendrite growth in a mild pH electrolyte.
Groß, A., Han, J., Passerini, S., Hosseini, S. M., Varzi, A., Euchner, H., Kuenzel, M.   +6 more
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Zn electrode/electrolyte interfaces of Zn batteries: A mini review

Electrochemistry Communications, 2021
Zn metal batteries are promising for large-scale energy storage systems because of their extremely intrinsic safety and low cost. However, parasitic side reactions such as hydrogen evolution, Zn corrosion, and flourished dendrite growth behavior impede ...
Longtao Ma, Chunyi Zhi
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An Artificial Polyacrylonitrile Coating Layer Confining Zinc Dendrite Growth for Highly Reversible Aqueous Zinc‐Based Batteries

Advanced Science, 2021
Aqueous rechargeable zinc‐metal‐based batteries are an attractive alternative to lithium‐ion batteries for grid‐scale energy‐storage systems because of their high specific capacity, low cost, eco‐friendliness, and nonflammability. However, uncontrollable
Peng Chen, Xinhai Yuan, Yingbin Xia, Yi Zhang, Lijun Fu, Lili Liu, Nengfei Yu, Qinghong Huang, Bin Wang, Xianwei Hu, Yuping Wu, Teunis vanRee   +11 more
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Conductive Framework-Stabilized Zn-Metal Anodes for High-Performance Zn-Ion Batteries and Capacitors

Energy Material Advances, 2023
Aqueous zinc (Zn)-based energy storage devices possess promising applications for large-scale energy storage systems due to the advantage of high safety, low price, and environment-friendliness. However, their development is restricted by dendrite growth
Zhe Gong, Zhuo Li, Pengfei Wang, Kai Jiang, Zhaowen Bai, Kai Zhu, Jun Yan, Ke Ye, Guiling Wang, Dianxue Cao, Guohua Chen   +10 more
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Revealing the plating/stripping processes on Zn anodes in Zn metal batteries via in situ AFM

Next Nanotechnology
Mechanistic insights into the interfacial evolution are essential for advancing rechargeable zinc metal batteries (RZMBs). Employing in situ atomic force microscopy (AFM), we observed the Zn plating and stripping processes on the Zn metal anode and ...
Jiao Wang, Jian-Xin Tian, Zhen-Zhen Shen, Rui Wen   +3 more
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