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Vol. 12 (2020)

Niobium Tungsten Oxide in a Green Water-in-Salt Electrolyte Enables Ultra-Stable Aqueous Lithium-Ion Capacitors

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-00508-z
Shengyang Dong
School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Institute of Advanced Materials and Flexible Electronics (IAMFE), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, People’s Republic of China
Yi Wang
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Chenglong Chen
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, People’s Republic of China
Laifa Shen
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, People’s Republic of China
Xiaogang Zhang
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Xiaogang Zhang

azhangxg@nuaa.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 12 (2020), Article Number: 168

Abstract

Aqueous hybrid supercapacitors are attracting increasing attention due to their potential low cost, high safety and eco-friendliness. However, the narrow operating potential window of aqueous electrolyte and the lack of suitable negative electrode materials seriously hinder its future applications. Here, we explore high concentrated lithium acetate with high ionic conductivity of 65.5 mS cm−1 as a green “water-in-salt” electrolyte, providing wide voltage window up to 2.8 V. It facilitates the reversible function of niobium tungsten oxide, Nb18W16O93, that otherwise only operations in organic electrolytes previously. The Nb18W16O93 with lithium-ion intercalation pseudocapacitive behavior exhibits excellent rate performance, high areal capacity, and ultra-long cycling stability. An aqueous lithium-ion hybrid capacitor is developed by using Nb18W16O93 as negative electrode combined with graphene as positive electrode in lithium acetate-based “water-in-salt” electrolyte, delivering a high energy density of 41.9 W kg−1, high power density of 20,000 W kg−1 and unexceptionable stability of 50,000 cycles.


Highlights:


1 A green water-in-salt electrolyte was developed using lithium acetate as solute with a wide electrochemical stability window of 2.8 V.
2 Molecular dynamics simulation confirmed the nature of water-in-salt electrolyte, where hydrogen bonds of water–water were disrupted and ionic interactions became stronger than dilute solution.
3 Nb18W16O93-based lithium-ion capacitors delivered unexceptionable stability over 50,000 cycles.

Keywords

Aqueous hybrid capacitors Water-in-salt electrolyte Niobium tungsten oxide Ultra-stability High power density
Dong, Shengyang, Yi Wang, Chenglong Chen, Laifa Shen, and Xiaogang Zhang. 2020. “Niobium Tungsten Oxide in a Green Water-in-Salt Electrolyte Enables Ultra-Stable Aqueous Lithium-Ion Capacitors”. Nano-Micro Letters 12 (August):168. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-00508-z.
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