Practicable Zn metal batteries enabled by ultrastable ferromagnetic interface.

Sci Bull (Beijing)

School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Key Laboratory for Magnetoelectric Materials and Devices, Beijing Innovation Center for Engineering Science and Advanced Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. Electronic address:

Published: November 2023

Rechargeable zinc (Zn) metal batteries (RZMBs) are demonstrated as sustainable and low-cost alternative in the energy storage industry of the future. However, the elusive Zn deposition behavior and water-originated parasitic reactions bring significant challenges to the fabrication and commercialization of Zn anodes, especially under high plating/stripping capacity. In this work, the ferromagnetic interface in conjunction with the magnetic field (MF) to effectively address these fabrication hurdles is proposed. The introduction of ferromagnetic layer with high chemical durability not only maintains the long-term regulating deposition steadily by magnetic field, but also plays a significant role in preventing side reactions, hence reducing gas production. These merits allow Zn-anode to achieve over 350 h steady Zn-deposition with a depth of discharge (DOD) up to 82% and translates well to ZnFe-MF||VO full cells, supporting stable cycling at high mass loading of 13.1 mg/cm, which makes RZMBs configurations promising for commercial applications.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scib.2023.08.063DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

metal batteries
8
ferromagnetic interface
8
magnetic field
8
practicable metal
4
batteries enabled
4
enabled ultrastable
4
ultrastable ferromagnetic
4
interface rechargeable
4
rechargeable zinc
4
zinc metal
4

Similar Publications

A Ring-Shaped Lithium Metal Anode Enables High-Performance All-Solid-State Batteries Revealed by In Situ L-Band EPR Imaging.

J Phys Chem Lett

January 2025

Shanghai Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance, Institute of Magnetic Resonance and Molecular Imaging in Medicine, School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China.

In traditional operations of all-solid-state lithium metal batteries (ASSLMBs), a small thin lithium metal circular disk is employed as a lithium metal anode (LMA). However, ASSLMBs with a circular-disk LMA often fail in <150 cycles with low capacity retention. In this work, we developed a new ring-shaped LMA to improve cyclability.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Building anion-derived solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) with enriched LiF is considered the most promising strategy to address inferior safety features and poor cyclability of lithium-metal batteries (LMBs). Herein, we discover that, instead of direct electron transfer from surface polar groups to bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (TFSI) for inducing a LiF-rich SEI, the dipole-induced fluorinated-anion decomposition reaction begins with the adsorption of Li ions and is highly dependent on their mobility on the polar surface. To demonstrate this, a single-layer graphdiyne on MXene (sGDY@MXene) heterostructure has been successfully fabricated and integrated into polypropylene separators.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Carving Metal-Organic-Framework Glass Based Solid-State Electrolyte Via a Top-Down Strategy for Lithium-Metal Battery.

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

January 2025

KU Leuven, Materials engineering, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44 bus 2450, 3001 LEUVEN Belgium, LEUVEN, BELGIUM.

Traditional polymer solid electrolytes (PSEs) suffer from low Li conductivity, poor kinetics and safety concerns. Here, we present a novel porous MOF glass gelled polymer electrolyte (PMG-GPE) prepared via a top-down strategy, which features a unique three-dimensional interconnected graded-aperture structure for efficient ion transport. Comprehensive analyses, including time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS), Solid-state 7Li magic-angle-spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (MAS-NMR), Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations, and electrochemical tests, quantify the pore structures, revealing their relationship with ion conductivity that increases and then decreases as macropore proportion rises.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

First-principles calculations, particularly density functional theory (DFT) combined with D3 dispersion correction (DFT+D3), have proven to be valuable tools in simulating the adsorption of lead ions on TiCO surfaces. However, conventional theoretical models assume electrically neutral systems under vacuum conditions, neglecting the solvent environment and electrode potential's crucial effects. This study employed an implicit solvent model, treating the solvent as a continuous and homogeneous medium to capture the influence of different solvents by varying their dielectric constants.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The advancement of rapid-response grid energy storage systems and the widespread adoption of electric vehicles are significantly hindered by the charging times and energy densities associated with current lithium-ion battery technology. In state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries, graphite is employed as the standard negative electrode material. However, graphite suffers from polarization and deteriorating side-reactions at the high currents needed for fast charging.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!