Interfacial design of dendrite-free zinc anodes for aqueous zinc-ion batteries.

By Qi Zhang, Jingyi Luan, You-gen Tang, Xiaobo Ji, Hai-yan Wang. Angewandte Chemie, 2020

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Aqueous zinc-ion batteries have been developed rapidly recently as promising energy storage devices in large-scale energy storage systems owing to their low cost and high safety. The research on suppressing zinc dendrite growth has meanwhile attracted widespread attention in order to improve the lifespan and reversibility of batteries. Herein, design methods for dendrite-free zinc anodes and their internal mechanisms are reviewed from the perspective of optimizing host-zinc interface and zinc-electrolyte interface. Furthermore, we propose a design strategy to homogenize zinc deposition by regulating the interfacial electric field and ion distribution during zinc nucleation and growth. This Minireview can offer potential directions for the rational design of dendrite-free zinc anodes employed in aqueous zinc-ion batteries.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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• Dendrites issues and advances in Zn anode for aqueous rechargeable Zn‐based batteries (2020, background): “Similar to other battery systems, the deposition/stripping of Zn ions are mainly dominated by the liquid-phase mass transfer, the surface polarization and 2D diffusion, leading to the growth of the original protrusions in the surface.(33,34) Those protrusions then are further consolidated by “tip ef”