Construction of an Artificial Interfacial Layer with Porous Structure toward Stable Zinc-Metal Anodes

Xianhong Chen; Xiaodong Shi; Pengchao Ruan; Yan Tang; Yanyan Sun; Wai Yeung Wong; Bingan Lu; Jiang Zhou

doi:10.1002/smsc.202300007

Construction of an Artificial Interfacial Layer with Porous Structure toward Stable Zinc-Metal Anodes

Xianhong Chen, Xiaodong Shi, Pengchao Ruan, Yan Tang, Yanyan Sun (Corresponding Author), Wai Yeung Wong (Corresponding Author), Bingan Lu, Jiang Zhou (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

Aqueous zinc-ion batteries possess great potential in stationary energy storage devices. Nevertheless, the occurrence of zinc dendrite growth and hydrogen evolution reaction severely hinders the utilization efficiency and service life of zinc-metal anodes. Herein, an in situ etching strategy is proposed to construct an interfacial layer with porous structure on the surface of zinc foil under the assistance of tartaric acid (denoted as TA@Zn). The optimized anode surface is beneficial to not only achieve uniform Zn deposition behavior due to the low nucleation overpotential, but also enhance the interfacial reaction kinetics due to the reduced activation energy barrier. As expected, the TA@Zn-based symmetric cell delivers small voltage hysteresis and superior stability for 5000 h at the current density of 1 mA cm⁻². Moreover, the TA@Zn|NH₄V₄O₁₀ cell also exhibits high specific capacity and long-term cycling stability.

Original language	English
Article number	2300007
Journal	Small Science
Volume	3
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/smsc.202300007
Publication status	Published - Jun 2023

Keywords

NHVO
organic acid etching
surface modification
zinc-ion batteries
zinc-metal anodes

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Catalysis
Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous)
Materials Science (miscellaneous)

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