Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Zinc-Ion and Zinc-Air Batteries: Current Status and Future Perspectives

Dan Yang; Huiteng Tan; Xianhong Rui; Yan Yu

doi:10.1007/s41918-019-00035-5

Electrochemical Energy Reviews ›› 2019, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (3) : 395 -427. DOI: 10.1007/s41918-019-00035-5

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Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Zinc-Ion and Zinc-Air Batteries: Current Status and Future Perspectives

Dan Yang ¹^,²
, Huiteng Tan ²
, Xianhong Rui ¹^,²^,^c
, Yan Yu ¹^,³^,⁴^,^d

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¹Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), University of Science and Technology of China, 230026, Hefei, Anhui, China

²Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Materials and Energy Storage Devices, Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Energy Materials, School of Materials and Energy, Guangdong University of Technology, 510006, Guangzhou, China

³Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy (DNL), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 116023, Dalian, Liaoning, China

⁴State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026, Hefei, Anhui, China

^c xhrui@gdut.edu.cn

^d yanyumse@ustc.edu.cn

Dan Yang

is a postdoc research fellow of the Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Energy Materials at Guangdong University of Technology, China. She received her B.S. degree from China University of Petroleum (Beijing) in 2008 and her M.S degree from the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011. She then obtained her Ph.D degree from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in 2016. Her research mainly focuses on the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for novel energy conversion and storage systems.

Huiteng Tan

is a postdoctoral researcher of the Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Energy Materials at Guangdong University of Technology, China. She received her B.S. in Chemistry and Biological Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University in 2010. She then completed her Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in 2015. Her research interests focus on developing advanced electrode materials for energy storage systems.

Xianhong Rui

is a professor of the Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Energy Materials at Guangdong University of Technology, China. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Jinan in 2007 and his M.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2010. He then obtained his Ph.D. degree from the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in 2014. His research interests mainly focus on the design and fabrication of advanced electrode materials for energy conversion and storage.

Yan Yu

is a professor of material science at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). She received her Ph.D. in material science at USTC in 2006. From 2007 to 2008, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Florida International University. After that, she received a Humboldt Research Fellowship and the Sofja Kovalevskaja award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. Her current research interests mainly include the design of novel nanomaterials for clean energy, especially for batteries and the fundamental science of energy storage systems.

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Advanced energy storage systems hold critical significance in satisfying the ever-increasing global demand for energy. And as a viable and effective alternative to lithium-ion batteries that dominate the current energy market, Zn-based batteries [i.e. Zn-ion batteries (ZIBs) and Zn-air batteries (ZABs)] have attracted extensive research efforts. Zn metal possesses many advantages because of its high theoretical capacity, its inexpensiveness and its good safety characteristic, and in recent years, tremendous efforts have been carried out to accelerate the development of ZIBs and ZABs with various electrode materials and electrocatalysts being proposed and investigated. In addition, with advances in characterization techniques, the underlying reaction mechanisms of these materials are also being elucidated. Therefore, this review will provide a comprehensive summary of the latest progress in various electrode materials adopted in the current ZIBs and ZABs along with corresponding mechanisms. Specifically, Mn- and V-containing cathode materials for ZIBs and associated reaction mechanisms will be thoroughly discussed, and emerging cathodes such as Prussian blue analogues, NASICON-type nanostructures and organic compounds will be presented. In terms of ZABs, this review will discuss three major types of electrocatalysts, including noble metals, heteroatom-doped carbons and transition metal oxides/sulphides/phosphides/nitrides. In addition, as a critical factor in the performance of Zn-based batteries, challenges encountered by the current Zn anodes and strategies developed to tackle these issues will be discussed as well. Finally, a short summary including the current progress and future perspectives of ZIBs and ZABs will be provided.

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Dan Yang, Huiteng Tan, Xianhong Rui, Yan Yu. Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Zinc-Ion and Zinc-Air Batteries: Current Status and Future Perspectives. Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 2019, 2(3): 395-427 DOI:10.1007/s41918-019-00035-5