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Vol. 15 (2023)

Quasi-Solid Electrolyte Interphase Boosting Charge and Mass Transfer for Dendrite-Free Zinc Battery

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01031-7
Xueer Xu
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China
Yifei Xu
Institute for Composites Science Innovation (InCSI) and State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China
Jingtong Zhang
Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou 311100, People’s Republic of China
Yu Zhong
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China
Zhongxu Li
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China
Huayu Qiu
Qingdao Industrial Energy Storage Research Institute, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266101, People’s Republic of China
Hao Bin Wu
Institute for Composites Science Innovation (InCSI) and State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China
Jie Wang
Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou 311100, People’s Republic of China
Xiuli Wang
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China
Changdong Gu
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China
Jiangping Tu
State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Changdong Gu

cdgu@zju.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 15 (2023), Article Number: 56

Abstract

The practical applications of zinc metal batteries are plagued by the dendritic propagation of its metal anodes due to the limited transfer rate of charge and mass at the electrode/electrolyte interphase. To enhance the reversibility of Zn metal, a quasi-solid interphase composed by defective metal–organic framework (MOF) nanoparticles (D-UiO-66) and two kinds of zinc salts electrolytes is fabricated on the Zn surface served as a zinc ions reservoir. Particularly, anions in the aqueous electrolytes could be spontaneously anchored onto the Lewis acidic sites in defective MOF channels. With the synergistic effect between the MOF channels and the anchored anions, Zn2+ transport is prompted significantly. Simultaneously, such quasi-solid interphase boost charge and mass transfer of Zn2+, leading to a high zinc transference number, good ionic conductivity, and high Zn2+ concentration near the anode, which mitigates Zn dendrite growth obviously. Encouragingly, unprecedented average coulombic efficiency of 99.8% is achieved in the Zn||Cu cell with the proposed quasi-solid interphase. The cycling performance of D-UiO-66@Zn||MnO2 (~ 92.9% capacity retention after 2000 cycles) and D-UiO-66@Zn||NH4V4O10 (~ 84.0% capacity retention after 800 cycles) prove the feasibility of the quasi-solid interphase.


Highlights:


1 Defect engineering for constructing Zn2+ reservoir to anchor anions.
2 The quasi-solid electrolyte interphase as Zn2+ reservoir boosting charge and mass transfer for dendrite-free zinc battery.
3 A Coulombic efficiency of 99.8% was achieved in Zn||Cu cell.

Keywords

Mass transfer Defect engineering Quasi-solid electrolyte interphase Zinc metal anode Zinc batteries
Xu, Xueer, Yifei Xu, Jingtong Zhang, Yu Zhong, Zhongxu Li, Huayu Qiu, Hao Bin Wu, Jie Wang, Xiuli Wang, Changdong Gu, and Jiangping Tu. 2023. “Quasi-Solid Electrolyte Interphase Boosting Charge and Mass Transfer for Dendrite-Free Zinc Battery”. Nano-Micro Letters 15 (February):56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01031-7.
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