1. High‐Capacity and Long‐Life Zinc Electrodeposition Enabled by a Self‐Healable and Desolvation Shield for Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Batteries.
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Du, Haoran, Zhao, Ruirui, Yang, Ying, Liu, Zhikang, Qie, Long, and Huang, Yunhui
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ZINC ions , *ELECTROPLATING , *DESOLVATION , *ZINC , *SURFACE diffusion , *HYDROGEN bonding - Abstract
Artificial interfaces can alleviate the side reactions and the formation of the metallic (e.g., Li, Na, and Zn) dendrites. However, the traditional ones always breakdown during the repeated plating/stripping and fail to regulate the electrodeposition behaviors of the electrodes. Herein, a self‐healable ion regulator (SIR) is designed as a desolvation shield to protect the Zn electrodes and guide the Zn electrodeposition. Benefiting from the intermolecular hydrogen bonds, SIR shows a superb capability to in situ repair the plating/stripping‐induced cracks. Besides, the results of theoretical calculations and electrochemical characterizations show that the coating reduces water molecules in the solvated sheath of hydrated Zn2+ and restrains the random Zn2+ diffusion on the Zn surface. Even with a coating layer of only 360 nm, the SIR‐modified Zn electrode exhibits excellent long‐term stability for >3500 h at 2 mAh cm−2 and >950 h at an ultrahigh areal capacity of 20 mAh cm−2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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