Sustainable zinc–air battery chemistry: advances, challenges and prospects

Q Wang, S Kaushik, X Xiao, Q Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Sustainable zinc–air batteries (ZABs) are considered promising energy storage devices
owing to their inherent safety, high energy density, wide operating temperature window …

Gel Polymer Electrolyte toward Large‐Scale Application of Aqueous Zinc Batteries

R Qi, W Tang, Y Shi, K Teng, Y Deng… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aqueous zinc batteries are promising candidates for energy storage and conversion devices
in the “post‐lithium” era due to their high energy density, high safety, and low cost. The …

Electrolyte Tuned Robust Interface toward Fast‐Charging Zn–Air Battery with Atomic Mo Site Catalyst

Q Wang, S Tang, Z Wang, J Wu, Y Bai… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Stable operation of sustainable Zn–air batteries (ZABs) has attracted considerable attention,
but it remains a huge challenge to achieve temperature‐adaptive and fast‐charging ZABs …

Edge-Hosted Mn-N4-C12 Site Tunes Adsorption Energy for Ultralow-Temperature and High-Capacity Solid-State Zn-Air Battery

Q Wang, Y Tan, S Tang, W Liu, Y Zhang, X Xiong… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Robust operation of Zn-air batteries (ZABs) with high capacity and excellent energy
efficiency is desirable for practical harsh applications, whose bottlenecks are mainly …

Highly entangled hydrogel enables stable zinc metal batteries via interfacial confinement effect

Q He, Z Chang, Y Zhong, S Chai, C Fu… - ACS Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hydrogel electrolytes are expected to be useful for stable zinc metal batteries; however, it is
extremely challenging to develop a hydrogel electrolyte that balances mechanical …

Breaking Consecutive Hydrogen‐Bond Network Toward High‐Rate Hydrous Organic Zinc Batteries

C Cui, D Han, H Lu, Z Li, K Zhang… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Zinc batteries hold great potential for stationary energy storage but suffer from severe
dendrite growth, corrosion, and hydrogen evolution troubles in aqueous electrolytes …

Oxygen Reduction Kinetics of Fe–N–C Single Atom Catalysts Boosted by Pyridinic N Vacancy for Temperature-Adaptive Zn–Air Batteries

L Lyu, X Hu, S Lee, W Fan, G Kim, J Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The design of temperature-adaptive Zn–air batteries (ZABs) with long life spans and high
energy efficiencies is challenging owing to sluggish oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) …

Starch‐Based Superabsorbent Hydrogel with High Electrolyte Retention Capability and Synergistic Interface Engineering for Long‐Lifespan Flexible Zinc− Air …

X Fan, R Zhang, S Sui, X Liu, J Liu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The advent of wearable electronics has strongly stimulated advanced research into the
exploration of flexible zinc− air batteries (ZABs) with high theoretical energy density, high …

Component Fluctuation Modulated Gelation Effect Enable Temperature Adaptability in Zinc‐Ion Batteries

S Ji, H Luo, S Qin, X Zhang, Y Hu… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The active H2O and slow ion kinetics behavior deteriorate the performance of aqueous zinc‐
ion batteries at a wide temperature range, even in hydrogel electrolyte. Herein, a component …

Quasi‐Liquid Gel Electrolyte for Enhanced Flexible Zn–Air Batteries

N Shang, K Wang, M Wei, Y Zuo… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Flexible Zn–air batteries (FZABs) have attracted more attention due to their high
specific energy, excellent stability, and unique rechargeability. However, these batteries are …