@article{Song_Ruan_Mao_Chang_Wang_Dai_Zhou_Lu_Zhou_He_2022, title={Metal–Organic Frameworks Functionalized Separators for Robust Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries}, volume={14}, url={https://nmlett.org/index.php/nml/article/view/1215}, DOI={10.1007/s40820-022-00960-z}, abstractNote={<p>Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) are one of the promising energy storage systems, which consist of electrode materials, electrolyte, and separator. The first two have been significantly received ample development, while the prominent role of the separators in manipulating the stability of the electrode has not attracted sufficient attention. In this work, a separator (UiO-66-GF) modified by Zr-based metal organic framework for robust AZIBs is proposed. UiO-66-GF effectively enhances the transport ability of charge carriers and demonstrates preferential orientation of (002) crystal plane, which is favorable for corrosion resistance and dendrite-free zinc deposition. Consequently, Zn|UiO-66-GF-2.2|Zn cells exhibit highly reversible plating/stripping behavior with long cycle life over 1650&nbsp;h at 2.0&nbsp;mA&nbsp;cm<sup>−2</sup>, and Zn|UiO-66-GF-2.2|MnO<sub>2</sub> cells show excellent long-term stability with capacity retention of 85% after 1000 cycles. The reasonable design and application of multifunctional metal organic frameworks modified separators provide useful guidance for constructing durable AZIBs.</p> <p>Highlights:</p> <p>1 Metal-organic frameworks (UiO-66) functionalized glass fiber separator was constructed to accelerate the transport of charge carriers and provide a uniform electric field distribution on the surface of zinc anode.<br>2 Zinc anode demonstrates preferential orientation of (002) plane under the control of UiO-66-GF, which effectively inhibits dendrites.<br>3 Density functional theory calculation confirms that the adsorption effect of (002) plane on H is weaker, thus improving corrosion resistance and suppressing the hydrogen evolution reaction.<br>4 Symmetric cells exhibit highly reversible plating/stripping behavior with long cycle life over 1650 h and full cells demonstrate excellent long-term stability (85%) for 1000 cycles.</p>}, journal={Nano-Micro Letters}, author={Song, Yang and Ruan, Pengchao and Mao, Caiwang and Chang, Yuxin and Wang, Ling and Dai, Lei and Zhou, Peng and Lu, Bingan and Zhou, Jiang and He, Zhangxing}, year={2022}, month={Nov.}, pages={218} }