High-performance flexible quasi-solid-state zinc-ion batteries with layer-expanded vanadium oxide cathode and zinc/stainless steel mesh composite anode

Rechargeable aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) featured with environmental friendliness, low cost, and high safety have attracted great interest but still suffer from the lack of high-performance electrodes. Herein, a facile in situ approach is developed to simultaneously introduce multivalence,...

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Main Authors: Zhao, Jin, Ren, Hao, Liang, Qinghua, Yuan, Du, Xi, Shibo, Wu, Chen, Manalastas, William, Jr., Ma, Jianmin, Fang, Wei, Zheng, Yun, Du, Cheng-Feng, Srinivasan, Madhavi, Yan, Qingyu
Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143262
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author Zhao, Jin
Ren, Hao
Liang, Qinghua
Yuan, Du
Xi, Shibo
Wu, Chen
Manalastas, William, Jr.
Ma, Jianmin
Fang, Wei
Zheng, Yun
Du, Cheng-Feng
Srinivasan, Madhavi
Yan, Qingyu
author2 School of Materials Science and Engineering
author_facet School of Materials Science and Engineering
Zhao, Jin
Ren, Hao
Liang, Qinghua
Yuan, Du
Xi, Shibo
Wu, Chen
Manalastas, William, Jr.
Ma, Jianmin
Fang, Wei
Zheng, Yun
Du, Cheng-Feng
Srinivasan, Madhavi
Yan, Qingyu
author_sort Zhao, Jin
collection NTU
description Rechargeable aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) featured with environmental friendliness, low cost, and high safety have attracted great interest but still suffer from the lack of high-performance electrodes. Herein, a facile in situ approach is developed to simultaneously introduce multivalence, increase the interlayer water content, and expand the interlayer distance in hydrated V2O5. These structural modulations endow the as-obtained layer-expanded V2O5 2.2H2O (E-VO) nanosheets with faster charge transfer kinetics, more Zn2+ storage space, and higher structural stability than precursor V2O5. Besides, a unique flexible Zn/stainless steel (Zn/SS) mesh composite anode with low polarization and uniform Zn stripping/plating behavior is fabricated, which alleviates the Zn dendrite growth. As cathode for aqueous ZIBs, E-VO exhibits high reversible capacity (450 mAh g-1 at 0.1 A g-1), good rate capability (222 mAh g-1 at 10 A g-1) and long stability (72% capacity retention for 3000 cycles at 5 A g-1). Moreover, the flexibility and large lateral size make E-VO a high-performance binder-free cathode for flexible quasi-solid-state Zn/E-VO battery, i.e. high capacity under different bending states (361 mAh g-1 at 0.1 A g-1), good rate capability (115mAh g-1 at 2 A g-1), and long stability (85% capacity retention for 300 cycles at 1 A g-1). The achievements of this study can be considered as an important step toward the development of aqueous-based ZIBs.
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spelling ntu-10356/1432622023-07-14T15:58:17Z High-performance flexible quasi-solid-state zinc-ion batteries with layer-expanded vanadium oxide cathode and zinc/stainless steel mesh composite anode Zhao, Jin Ren, Hao Liang, Qinghua Yuan, Du Xi, Shibo Wu, Chen Manalastas, William, Jr. Ma, Jianmin Fang, Wei Zheng, Yun Du, Cheng-Feng Srinivasan, Madhavi Yan, Qingyu School of Materials Science and Engineering Engineering::Materials Science Aqueous Zinc-ion Battery Vanadium Oxide Rechargeable aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) featured with environmental friendliness, low cost, and high safety have attracted great interest but still suffer from the lack of high-performance electrodes. Herein, a facile in situ approach is developed to simultaneously introduce multivalence, increase the interlayer water content, and expand the interlayer distance in hydrated V2O5. These structural modulations endow the as-obtained layer-expanded V2O5 2.2H2O (E-VO) nanosheets with faster charge transfer kinetics, more Zn2+ storage space, and higher structural stability than precursor V2O5. Besides, a unique flexible Zn/stainless steel (Zn/SS) mesh composite anode with low polarization and uniform Zn stripping/plating behavior is fabricated, which alleviates the Zn dendrite growth. As cathode for aqueous ZIBs, E-VO exhibits high reversible capacity (450 mAh g-1 at 0.1 A g-1), good rate capability (222 mAh g-1 at 10 A g-1) and long stability (72% capacity retention for 3000 cycles at 5 A g-1). Moreover, the flexibility and large lateral size make E-VO a high-performance binder-free cathode for flexible quasi-solid-state Zn/E-VO battery, i.e. high capacity under different bending states (361 mAh g-1 at 0.1 A g-1), good rate capability (115mAh g-1 at 2 A g-1), and long stability (85% capacity retention for 300 cycles at 1 A g-1). The achievements of this study can be considered as an important step toward the development of aqueous-based ZIBs. Ministry of Education (MOE) Accepted version The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from Singapore MOE Tier 2 project MOE2017-T2-2-069 and MOE2018-T2-1-010, Singapore MOE AcRF Tier 1 under grant Nos. RG113/15 and 2016-T1-002-065, Singapore EMA project EIRP 12/NRF2015EWT-EIRP002-008 and National Research Foundation of Singapore (NRF) Investigatorship, award Number NRF2016NRF-NRFI001-22. 2020-08-17T08:34:44Z 2020-08-17T08:34:44Z 2019 Journal Article Zhao, J., Ren, H., Liang, Q., Yuan, D., Xi, S., Wu, C., ... Yan, Q. (2019). High-performance flexible quasi-solid-state zinc-ion batteries with layer-expanded vanadium oxide cathode and zinc/stainless steel mesh composite anode. Nano Energy, 62, 94-102. doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.05.010 2211-2855 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143262 10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.05.010 62 94 102 en MOE2017-T2-2-069 MOE2018-T2-1-010 RG113/15 2016-T1-002-065 12/NRF2015EWT-EIRP002-008 NRF2016NRF-NRFI001-22 Nano Energy © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This paper was published in Nano Energy and is made available with permission of Elsevier Ltd. application/pdf
spellingShingle Engineering::Materials
Science
Aqueous Zinc-ion Battery
Vanadium Oxide
Zhao, Jin
Ren, Hao
Liang, Qinghua
Yuan, Du
Xi, Shibo
Wu, Chen
Manalastas, William, Jr.
Ma, Jianmin
Fang, Wei
Zheng, Yun
Du, Cheng-Feng
Srinivasan, Madhavi
Yan, Qingyu
High-performance flexible quasi-solid-state zinc-ion batteries with layer-expanded vanadium oxide cathode and zinc/stainless steel mesh composite anode
title High-performance flexible quasi-solid-state zinc-ion batteries with layer-expanded vanadium oxide cathode and zinc/stainless steel mesh composite anode
title_full High-performance flexible quasi-solid-state zinc-ion batteries with layer-expanded vanadium oxide cathode and zinc/stainless steel mesh composite anode
title_fullStr High-performance flexible quasi-solid-state zinc-ion batteries with layer-expanded vanadium oxide cathode and zinc/stainless steel mesh composite anode
title_full_unstemmed High-performance flexible quasi-solid-state zinc-ion batteries with layer-expanded vanadium oxide cathode and zinc/stainless steel mesh composite anode
title_short High-performance flexible quasi-solid-state zinc-ion batteries with layer-expanded vanadium oxide cathode and zinc/stainless steel mesh composite anode
title_sort high performance flexible quasi solid state zinc ion batteries with layer expanded vanadium oxide cathode and zinc stainless steel mesh composite anode
topic Engineering::Materials
Science
Aqueous Zinc-ion Battery
Vanadium Oxide
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143262
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