Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 15, Issue 1, 237(2023)

Hetero Nucleus Growth Stabilizing Zinc Anode for High-Biosecurity Zinc-Ion Batteries

Jingjing Li1... Zhexuan Liu2, Shaohua Han2, Peng Zhou3, Bingan Lu4, Jianda Zhou5, Zhiyuan Zeng6, Zhizhao Chen1,5,* and Jiang Zhou2,** |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Department of Plastic Surgery and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410008, People’s Republic of China
  • 2School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Electronic Packaging and Advanced Functional Materials, Central South University, Changsha 410083, People’s Republic of China
  • 3Hunan Provincial Key Defense Laboratory of High Temperature Wear-Resisting Materials and Preparation Technology, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan 411201, People’s Republic of China
  • 4School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, People’s Republic of China
  • 5Department of Plastic Surgery, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha 410013, People’s Republic of China
  • 6Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, 999077 Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China
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    Biocompatible devices are widely employed in modernized lives and medical fields in the forms of wearable and implantable devices, raising higher requirements on the battery biocompatibility, high safety, low cost, and excellent electrochemical performance, which become the evaluation criteria toward developing feasible biocompatible batteries. Herein, through conducting the battery implantation tests and leakage scene simulations on New Zealand rabbits, zinc sulfate electrolyte is proved to exhibit higher biosecurity and turns out to be one of the ideal zinc salts for biocompatible zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs). Furthermore, in order to mitigate the notorious dendrite growth and hydrogen evolution in mildly acidic electrolyte as well as improve their operating stability, Sn hetero nucleus is introduced to stabilize the zinc anode, which not only facilitates the planar zinc deposition, but also contributes to higher hydrogen evolution overpotential. Finally, a long lifetime of 1500 h for the symmetrical cell, the specific capacity of 150 mAh g-1 under 0.5 A g-1 for the Zn–MnO2 battery and 212 mAh g-1 under 5 A g-1 for the Zn—NH4V4O10 battery are obtained. This work may provide unique perspectives on biocompatible ZIBs toward the biosecurity of their cell components.

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    Jingjing Li, Zhexuan Liu, Shaohua Han, Peng Zhou, Bingan Lu, Jianda Zhou, Zhiyuan Zeng, Zhizhao Chen, Jiang Zhou. Hetero Nucleus Growth Stabilizing Zinc Anode for High-Biosecurity Zinc-Ion Batteries[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2023, 15(1): 237

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jul. 16, 2023

    Accepted: Sep. 6, 2023

    Published Online: Dec. 15, 2023

    The Author Email: Chen Zhizhao (czz657033698@126.com), Zhou Jiang (zhou_jiang@csu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s40820-023-01206-2

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