Affiliation:
1. School of Materials Science and Engineering Changchun University of Science and Technology Changchun 130022 China
2. State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Changchun 130022 China
3. Research Center for Nanotechnology Changchun University of Science and Technology Changchun 130022 China.
4. State Key Laboratory of New Textile Materials and Advanced Processing Technologies Wuhan Textile University Wuhan 430200 China
Abstract
AbstractRecently, aqueous zinc‐based batteries (AZBs) have become a promising candidate for energy storage devices due to the high safety of aqueous electrolytes and the appealing features of Zn anodes, for example, low cost and high theoretical capacity. However, the excessive growth of Zn electrodeposits as well as the uneven stacking of large hexagonal Zn crystal units always render loose and irregular electrodeposition or even dendritic growth, which seriously deteriorates the actual performance of AZBs. Herein, to refine the grain size of Zn electrodeposits, a trace of Pb2+ ions as a novel electrolyte additive is performed to inhibit the growth of Zn grain during the Zn electrodeposition. Owing to the higher adsorption energy of Pb2+ ions on Zn crystal when compared with Zn2+ ions, the strongly positively‐charged Pb2+ ions are tightly absorbed on the typical crystal planes of initially‐formed Zn nuclei, which block the way for the subsequent absorption and electroreduction of Zn2+ ions. As a result, the Pb2+ ions‐containing electrolyte refines the grain size of Zn electrodeposits from 7.43–7.87 μm to 0.88–2.26 μm, and affords a high reversibility of Zn plating/stripping behavior with a high Coulombic efficiency of 99.9 % over 1000 cycles.
Funder
University of Science and Technology of China
Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Subject
Electrochemistry,Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Energy Engineering and Power Technology