Journal
ENERGY STORAGE MATERIALS
Volume 46, Issue -, Pages 129-137Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ensm.2022.01.004
Keywords
Aqueous zinc batteries; Organic cathode; Solid-state electrooxidation; Molecular electrochemistry; p-doping /de-doping mechanism
Funding
- UNSW
- Australian Government's ARC Future Fellowship funding program [FT200100707]
- Research Technology Services at UNSW Sydney
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This study introduces a solid-state electrooxidation strategy for the in-situ design of a novel host in aqueous zinc batteries, resulting in high reversible capacity, excellent cycle stability, and rate capability. This potentially scalable approach could advance the development of high-performance organic electrodes.
Aqueous zinc batteries (AZBs) with organic cathodes are attractive large-scale storage candidates thanks to the inherent safety and inexpensiveness of the AZB chemistry and sustainability and diverse redox functions offered by organic materials. Polymer type hosts are particularly appealing for their insolubility in mildly acidic aqueous electrolytes, which renders stable cycling. However, the scalability of their chemical and/or electrochemical syn -thesis via solution polymerization can be a concern. Moving away from the solution method, here we introduce the solid-state electrooxidation strategy for the in-situ design of a novel host-dicarbazyl -by electrooxidative coupling of N-phenyl carbazole. The electrolyte has a decisive influence on the extent of the irreversible dimerization and thus on the subsequent electrochemistry. Favorable electrode kinetics together with in-situ derived film like morphology covering the conducting nanocarbon enables an attractive ? 100 mAh g(- 1) reversible capacity at 1.3 V against Zn by a reversible p-doping/de-doping charge storage mechanism, > 95% capacity retention over 1000 cycles at nearly 100% Coulombic efficiency, and excellent rate capability. The oxidative formation of the host and its reversible electrochemistry is confirmed by electrochemical, spectroscopic, and density func-tional theory investigations. This first demonstration of the solid-state electrooxidation strategy for an organic electrode design opens a new paradigm of high performance organic electrodes development by a potentially scalable approach.
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