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- This study presents a novel approach to recycle spent graphite from lithium-ion battery waste to create graphene oxide (GO) for use in zinc-ion batteries (AZIB).
- The synthesized GO from spent graphite (SG-GO) demonstrates superior electrochemical performance, achieving a charge capacity of 270 mAh/g compared to 198 mAh/g for commercial graphite-derived GO at the same current density.
- Long-term tests show SG-GO maintains 77.3% capacity retention after 1000 cycles, with optimal performance observed using a 3 M ZnSO electrolyte for improved zinc ion storage.
Article Abstract
The need for revamping spent graphite (SG) from battery waste of commercial lithium-ion batteries and employing it as a source for the synthesis of graphene oxide (GO) is focused. Thus, this work emphasizes the study of GO sheets, synthesized via modified Hummer's method from spent graphite (SG-GO) as cathodes for an aqueous zinc ion battery (AZIB) system, for the first time in literature. For comparison, graphene oxide is also synthesized using commercial graphite powder, its structural and morphological properties are analyzed with SG-GO. The coin cell AZIB device is fabricated for both the GOs and the electrochemical performances revealed that SG-GO portrayed an enhanced charge capacity of 270 mAh g at 0.1 A g in 3 m ZnSO in comparison to GO which delivered ≈198 mAh g at the same current density of 0.1 A g. The long-run cycling analysis of SG-GO elucidated the capacity retention of 77.3% at 1 A g even after 1000 cycles. Moreover, the performance of SG-GO is inspected in different electrolyte systems and the suitable electrolyte underwent concentration variation studies to figure out the capability of the system in storing Zn ions which is found to be more in 3 M ZnSO electrolyte.
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