All-Metal Phosphide Electrodes for High-Performance Quasi-Solid-State Fiber-Shaped Aqueous Rechargeable Ni-Fe Batteries

  • Jiao Yang
  • , Zhe Wang
  • , Zhixun Wang
  • , Jing Zhang
  • , Qichong Zhang
  • , Perry Ping Shum
  • , Lei Wei

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Abstract

Aqueous secondary Ni-Fe batteries with superior energy density, cost-effectiveness, and outstanding safety contribute significantly toward the development of portable and wearable energy storage devices with high performance. However, the common electrode materials are nickel/iron or their oxides which have suffered from poor conductivity and cycle performance. As an ideal candidate to address these issues, metal phosphides may offer outstanding theoretical specific capacity, low conversion potential, and impressive redox. In this study, one novel type of high-performance flexible Ni-Fe battery with binder-free electrodes on conductive fiber substrates is successfully designed and fabricated. Carbon nanotube fibers with the direct grown hierarchical NiCoP nanosheet arrays and FeP nanowire arrays are fabricated first using hydrothermal synthesis and then the pursuant gas phosphating process. With the assistance of the PVA-KOH gel electrolyte, our fiber-shaped aqueous rechargeable battery (FARB) presents negligible capacity loss after bending 3000 times. Meanwhile, the assembled FARB has a significant capacity of 0.294 mA h/cm2 under the current density of 2 mA/cm2 and a high energy density of 235.6

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)12801-12808
Number of pages8
JournalACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume12
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2020

Keywords

  • aqueous rechargeable batteries
  • fiber-shaped devices
  • metal phosphide
  • Ni-Fe batteries
  • wearable electronics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science

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