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The advent of membrane-less zinc-anode aqueous batteries with lithium battery-like voltage

Journal

MATERIALS HORIZONS
Volume 9, Issue 8, Pages 2160-2171

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ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2mh00280a

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  1. U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity
  2. U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-NA-0003525]

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This study demonstrates the fabrication of rechargeable membrane-less zinc-anode batteries with high voltage properties by utilizing concentrated acid and alkaline solutions coupled with a gelled buffer interlayer. This strategy is not only applicable to zinc-manganese dioxide batteries, but also to other oxide-based cathode systems like Cu2O and V2O5.
Zinc (Zn)-anode batteries, although safe and non-flammable, are precluded from promising applications because of their low voltage (<2 V) and poor rechargeability. Here, we report the fabrication of rechargeable membrane-less Zn-anode batteries with high voltage properties (2.5 to 3.4 V) achieved through coupling cathodes and Zn-anodes in gelled concentrated acid and alkaline solutions separated by a gelled buffer interlayer containing the working ions. The concentrated gelled buffer interlayers perform dual functions of regulating the pH of the system and acting as the source and sink of the working ions. With this strategy we show low-cost membrane-less 2.5 to 3.4 V Zn-manganese dioxide (MnO2) batteries capable of cycling 10-100% of 617 mA h g(-1)-MnO2 and 20-30% of 820 mA h g(-1)-Zn and demonstrate their application in electric vehicles. This strategy is then applied to other oxide-based cathode systems like Cu2O and V2O5, where voltages of 2 to 3 V are obtained in membrane-less batteries.

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