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ENERGY STORAGE MATERIALS
卷 35, 期 -, 页码 679-686出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ensm.2020.12.001
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Zinc-ion battery; Vanadium oxides; Oxygen-doped vanadium nitride; Conversion reaction
This study demonstrates for the first time a new energy storage mechanism involving cationic conversion reactions in the vanadium oxide-based ZIB system. Experimental and theoretical calculations confirm the reversible characteristics of these reactions, opening up a new direction for high-capacity ZIBs.
Vanadium-based cathodes for zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) hold a great promise for next-generation energy storage systems due to their amazing diversity, relatively high capacity and excellent stability. Unfortunately, the specific capacity of current vanadium-based electrodes is intrinsically limited by zinc site density in crystal structures, probably attributing to the ignore of exception energy storage mechanism in cationic insertion/extraction. Herein, a new energy storage mechanism in the vanadium oxide-based ZIB system via cationic conversion reactions was demonstrated for the first time. At the force of electric and weak acid conditions, the oxygen-doped vanadium nitride (O-VN) cathode was firstly electrochemically oxidized into vanadium oxide and vanadium cations via in-situ activation; the cations would be reduced to V2O3 that depositing on the surface of the electrode in the discharge process; and subsequently the V (III) species could be oxidized back to the cations dissolving into electrolyte upon charging. First-principle density functional theory (DFT) calculations confirm the reversible characteristics of these reactions. Owing to these cationic conversion reactions together with contributions from zinc ion de/intercalation, the O-doped VN cathode delivered an ultrahigh discharge capacity of 705 mAh g(-1) at 0.2 A g(-1). This work continues to develop the energy storage mechanism of vanadium-based cathode and reveals the arrival of a new era for high-capacity ZIBs.
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