Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages 3961-3969Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c18975
Keywords
Zn-ion batteries; intercalation anodes; Zn metal; hexagonal WO3; three-dimensional porous graphene
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21872040, 22162004]
- Excellent Scholars and Innovation Team of Guangxi Universities
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This study investigates hexagonal WO3/three-dimensional porous graphene (h-WO3/3DG) as an intercalation anode material for Zn-ion batteries (ZIBs), demonstrating its excellent electrochemical performance. A zinc metal-free full battery is also constructed, highlighting the potential of h-WO3 as an advanced intercalation anode material for ZIBs.
Aqueous Zn-ion batteries (ZIBs) have acquired great attention because of their high safety and environmentally friendly properties. However, the uncontrollable Zn dendrites and the irreversibility of electrodes seriously affect their practical application. Herein, hexagonal WO3/three-dimensional porous graphene (h-WO3/3DG) is investigated as an intercalation anode for ZIBs. As a result, the h-WO3/3DG//Zn half-battery shows excellent electrochemical performance with a high capacity of 115.6 mAh g(-1) at 0.1 A g(-1) and 89% capacity retention at 2.0 A g(-1) after 10 000 cycles. The reason could be that the crystalline structure of WO3, which has hexagonal channels, with a diameter of 5.36 A, much higher than the diameter of Zn2+ (0.73 A), accelerating the insertion/extraction of Zn ions. A zinc metal-free full battery using h-WO3/3DG as the anode and ZnMn2O4/carbon black (ZnMn2O4/CB) as the cathode is constructed, exhibiting an initial capacity of 66.8 mAh g(-1) at 0.1 A g(-1) corresponding to an energy density of 73.5 W h kg(-1) (based on the total mass of anode and cathode-active materials) and a capacity retention of 76.6% after 1000 cycles at 0.5 A g(-1). This work demonstrates the high potential of hexagonal WO3 as an advanced intercalation anode material for Zn metal-free batteries and may inspire new ideas for the development of other intercalation anode hosts for ZIBs.
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