Challenges in Zinc Electrodes for Alkaline Zinc–Air Batteries: Obstacles to Commercialization

By Zequan Zhao, Xiayue Fan, Jia Ding, Wenbin Hu, C. Zhong, Jun Lu. ACS Energy Letters, 2019

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Alkaline zinc–air batteries are promising energy storage technologies with the advantages of low cost, ecological friendliness, and high energy density. However, the rechargeable zinc–air battery has not been used on a commercial scale because the zinc electrode suffers from critical problems such as passivation, dendrite growth, and hydrogen evolution reaction, which limit the practical applications of zinc–air batteries. Herein, the Perspective summaries the solutions to minimize the negative effects of zinc electrodes on discharge performance, cycling life, and shelf life. The future direction of academic research based on current studies of the existing challenges is proposed.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Polymers and Plastics

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• Dendrites issues and advances in Zn anode for aqueous rechargeable Zn‐based batteries (2020, background): “The root cause of the revolution of hydrogen is that the Zn anode is thermodynamically unstable in an aqueous solution.(29) The hydrogen evolution reaction can be shown as follows:”