期刊
SCIENCE BULLETIN
卷 63, 期 16, 页码 1077-1086出版社
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2018.06.019
关键词
Rechargeable zinc ion battery; Sol-gel electrolyte; Reversible transition; Gelation; Thermoresponsive
资金
- NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme [N_CityU123/15]
- NSFC [5151101197]
- City University of Hong Kong [PJ7004645]
- Science & Technology Department of Sichuan Province [2017JY0088]
Thermal runaway has been a long-standing safety issue impeding the development of high-energy-density batteries. Physical safety designs such as employing circuit-breakers and fuses to batteries are limited by small operating voltage windows and no resumption of original working condition when it is cooled down. Here we report a smart thermoresponsive polymer electrolyte that can be incorporated inside batteries to prevent thermal runaway via a fast and reversible sol-gel transition, and successfully combine this smart electrolyte with a rechargeable Zn/a-MnO2 battery system. At high temperature, battery operation is inhibited as a result of the increased internal resistance caused by the gelation of liquid electrolyte. After cooling down, the electrolyte is spontaneously reversed to sol state and the electrochemical performance of the battery is restored. More importantly, sol-gel transition enables the smart battery to experience different charge-discharge rates under various temperature levels, providing a smart and active strategy to achieve dynamic and reversible self-protection. (C) 2018 Science China Press. Published by Elsevier B.V. and Science China Press. All rights reserved.
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