Revealing the role of crystal orientation of protective layers for stable zinc anode

Qi Zhang, Jingyi Luan, Xiaobing Huang, Qi Wang, Dan Sun, Yougen Tang, Xiaobo Ji and Haiyan Wang ()
Additional contact information
Qi Zhang: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University
Jingyi Luan: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University
Xiaobing Huang: Hunan University of Arts and Science
Qi Wang: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University
Dan Sun: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University
Yougen Tang: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University
Xiaobo Ji: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University
Haiyan Wang: College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract Rechargeable aqueous zinc-ion batteries are a promising candidate for next-generation energy storage devices. However, their practical application is limited by the severe safety issue caused by uncontrollable dendrite growth on zinc anodes. Here we develop faceted titanium dioxide with relatively low zinc affinity, which can restrict dendrite formation and homogenize zinc deposition when served as the protective layer on zinc anodes. The as-prepared zinc anodes can be stripped and plated steadily for more than 460 h with low voltage hysteresis and flat voltage plateau in symmetric cells. This work reveals the key role of crystal orientation in zinc affinity and its internal mechanism is suitable for various crystal materials applied in the surface modification of other metal anodes such as lithium and sodium.

Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17752-x Abstract (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:natcom:v:11:y:2020:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-020-17752-x

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17752-x

Access Statistics for this article

Nature Communications is currently edited by Nathalie Le Bot, Enda Bergin and Fiona Gillespie

More articles in Nature Communications from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().