Achieving High‐Voltage and High‐Capacity Aqueous Rechargeable Zinc Ion Battery by Incorporating Two‐Species Redox Reaction

By Longtao Ma, Shengmei Chen, Changbai Long, Xinliang Li, Yuwei Zhao, Zhuoxin Liu, Zhaodong Huang, Binbin Dong, J. Zapien, Chunyi Zhi. Advanced Energy Materials, 2019

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Herein, a two‐species redox reaction of Co(II)/Co(III) and Fe(II)/Fe(III) incorporated in cobalt hexacyanoferrate (CoFe(CN)6) is proposed as a breakthrough to achieve jointly high‐capacity and high‐voltage aqueous Zn‐ion battery. The Zn/CoFe(CN)6 battery provides a highly operational voltage plateau of 1.75 V (vs metallic Zn) and a high capacity of 173.4 mAh g−1 at current density of 0.3 A g−1, taking advantage of the two‐species redox reaction of Co(II)/Co(III) and Fe(II)/Fe(III) couples. Even under extremely fast charge/discharge rate of 6 A g−1, the battery delivers a sufficiently high discharge capacity of 109.5 mAh g−1 with its 3D opened structure framework. This is the highest capacity delivered among all the batteries using Prussian blue analogs (PBAs) cathode up to now. Furthermore, Zn/CoFe(CN)6 battery achieves an excellent cycling performance of 2200 cycles without any capacity decay at coulombic efficiency of nearly 100%. One further step, a sol–gel transition strategy for hydrogel electrolyte is developed to construct high‐performance flexible cable‐type battery. With the strategy, the active materials can adequately contact with electrolyte, resulting in improved electrochemical performance (≈18.73% capacity increase) and mechanical robustness of the solid‐state device. It is believed that this study optimizes electrodes by incorporating multi redox reaction species for high‐voltage and high‐capacity batteries.

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

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