High-Energy and Stable Subfreezing Aqueous Zn-MnO2 Batteries with Selective and Pseudocapacitive Zn-Ion Insertion in MnO2

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 34(2022), 21 vom: 25. Mai, Seite e2201510
1. Verfasser: Gao, Siyuan (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Li, Bomin, Tan, Haiyan, Xia, Fan, Dahunsi, Olusola, Xu, Wenqian, Liu, Yuzi, Wang, Rongyue, Cheng, Yingwen
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2022
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article Zn-MnO2 batteries pseudocapacitive selective Zn2+ insertion subfreezing aqueous batteries
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Zusammenfassung:© 2022 Wiley-VCH GmbH.
One major challenge of aqueous Zn-MnO2 batteries for practical applications is their unacceptable performance below freezing temperatures. Here the use of simple Zn(ClO4 )2 aqueous electrolytes is described for all-weather Zn-MnO2 batteries even down to -60 °C. The symmetric, bulky ClO4 - anion effectively disrupts hydrogen bonds between water molecules and provides intrinsic ion diffusion even while frozen, and enables ≈260 mAh g-1 on MnO2 cathodes at -30 °C . It is identified that subfreezing cycling shifts the reaction mechanism on the MnO2 cathode from unstable H+ insertion to predominantly pseudocapacitive Zn2+ insertion, which converts MnO2 nanofibers into complicated zincated MnOx that are largely disordered and appeared as crumpled paper sheets. The Zn2+ insertion at -30 °C is faster and much more stable than at 20 °C, and delivers ≈80% capacity retention for 1000 cycles without Mn2+ additives. In addition, simple Zn(ClO4 )2 electrolyte also enables a nearly fully reversible and dendrite-free Zn anode at -30 °C with ≈98% Coulombic efficiency. Zn-MnO2 prototypes with an experimentally verified unit energy density of 148 Wh kg-1 at a negative-to-positive ratio of 1.5 and an electrolyte-to-capacity ratio of 2.0 are further demonstrated
Beschreibung:Date Revised 26.05.2022
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.202201510