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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 144, 期 16, 页码 7160-7170出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c12764
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
This work proposes a hybrid electrolyte induced by the salting-in effect as an effective strategy to achieve a highly reversible zinc anode with good stability and compatibility. By altering the solvation structure and reducing parasitic side reactions, this electrolyte ensures a stable zinc anode with excellent cycling stability.
Anode-free metal batteries can in principle offer higher energy density, but this requires them to have extraordinary Coulombic efficiency (>99.7%). Although Zn-based metal batteries are promising for stationary storage, the parasitic side reactions make anode-free batteries difficult to achieve in practice. In this work, a salting-in-effect-induced hybrid electrolyte is proposed as an effective strategy that enables both a highly reversible Zn anode and good stability and compatibility toward various cathodes. The as-prepared electrolyte can also work well under a wide temperature range (i.e., from -20 to 50 degrees C). It is demonstrated that in the presence of propylene carbonate, triflate anions are involved in the Zn2+ solvation sheath structure, even at a low salt concentration (2.14 M). The unique solvation structure results in the reduction of anions, thus forming a hydrophobic solid electrolyte interphase. The waterproof interphase along with the decreased water activity in the hybrid electrolyte effectively prevents side reactions, thus ensuring a stable Zn anode with an unprecedented Coulombic efficiency (99.93% over 500 cycles at 1 mA cm(-2)). More importantly, we design an anode-free Zn metal battery that exhibits excellent cycling stability (80% capacity retention after 275 cycles at 0.5 mA cm(-2)). This work provides a universal strategy to design co-solvent electrolytes for anode-free Zn metal batteries.
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