Synergistic “Anchor-Capture” Enabled by Amino and Carboxyl for Constructing Robust Interface of Zn Anode

Zhen Luo; Yufan Xia; Shuang Chen; Xingxing Wu; Ran Zeng; Xuan Zhang; Hongge Pan; Mi Yan; Tingting Shi; Kai Tao; Ben Bin Xu; Yinzhu Jiang

doi:10.1007/s40820-023-01171-w

Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 15, Issue 1, 205(2023)

Synergistic “Anchor-Capture” Enabled by Amino and Carboxyl for Constructing Robust Interface of Zn Anode

Zhen Luo1...2,†, Yufan Xia1,2,†, Shuang Chen1,2, Xingxing Wu2, Ran Zeng3, Xuan Zhang2, Hongge Pan1,4, Mi Yan1,5, Tingting Shi6,*, Kai Tao3,7, Ben Bin Xu8,**, and Yinzhu Jiang1,25,*** |Show fewer author(s)

Author Affiliations

¹School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China

²ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 311215, People’s Republic of China

³State Key Laboratory of Fluid Power and Mechatronic Systems, Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacturing Technology of Zhejiang Province, School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China

⁴Institute of Science and Technology for New Energy, Xi’an Technological University, Xi’an 710021, People’s Republic of China

⁵State Key Laboratory of Baiyunobo Rare Earth Resource Researches and Comprehensive Utilization, Baotou Research Institute of Rare Earths, Baotou 014030, People’s Republic of China

⁶Guangdong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Vacuum Coating Technologies and New Energy Materials, Department of Physics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510632 Guangdong, People’s Republic of China

⁷Zhejiang-Israel Joint Laboratory of Self-Assembling Functional Materials, Hangzhou, 311200, People’s Republic of China

⁸Mechanical and Construction Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK

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Received: May. 29, 2023

Accepted: Jul. 9, 2023

Published Online: Dec. 15, 2023

The Author Email: Shi Tingting (ttshi@email.jnu.edu.cn), Xu Ben Bin (ben.xu@northumbria.ac.uk), Jiang Yinzhu (yzjiang@zju.edu.cn)

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