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ACS NANO
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c07792
关键词
neutral zinc anode; acidic MnO2 cathode; hybrid Zn-MnO2 battery; proton shuttle shielding; hydrophobic ion conduction
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资金
- National Key R&D Program of China
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
- [2017YFE0198100]
- [2020M681035]
Alkaline Zn-MnO2 batteries suffer from capacity degradation, limiting their lifespan. To overcome this challenge, a hybrid Zn-MnO2 battery is proposed, which achieves high working voltage and long cycle life through optimized reaction conditions and a specially designed membrane.
Alkaline Zn-MnO2 batteries feature high security, low cost, and environmental friendliness while suffering from severe electrochemical irreversibility for both the Zn anode and MnO2 cathode. Although neutral electrolytes are supposed to improve the reversibility of the Zn anode, the MnO2 cathode indeed experiences a capacity degradation caused by the Jahn-Teller effect of the Mn3+ ion, thus shortening the lifespan of the neutral Zn-MnO2 batteries. Theoretically, the MnO2 cathode undergoes a highly reversible two-electron redox reaction of the MnO2/Mn2+ couple in strongly acidic electrolytes. However, acidic electrolytes would inevitably accelerate the corrosion of the Zn anode, making long-lived acidic Zn-MnO2 batteries impossible. Herein, to overcome the challenges faced by Zn-MnO2 batteries, we propose a hybrid Zn-MnO2 battery (HZMB) by coupling the neutral Zn anode with the acidic MnO2 cathode, wherein the neutral anode and acidic cathode are separated by a proton-shuttle-shielding and hydrophobic-ion-conducting membrane. Benefiting from the optimized reaction conditions for both the MnO2 cathode and Zn anode as well as the well-designed membrane, the HZMB exhibits a high working voltage of 2.05 V and a long lifespan of 2275 h (2000 cycles), breaking through the limitations of Zn-MnO2 batteries in terms of voltage and cycle life.
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