Flexible quasi-solid-state zinc ion batteries enabled by highly conductive carrageenan bio-polymer electrolyte

Huang, Yuan; Liu, Jiuwei; Zhang, Jiyan; Jin, Shunyu; Jiang, Yixiang; Zhang, Shengdong; Li, Zigang; Chen, Zhi; Du, Guoqing; Zhou, Hang

doi:10.1039/c9ra01120j

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“…But it fails on mechanical property. Huang et al109 developed a Zn–MnO 2 with a Kappa‐carrageenan/2 m ZnSO 4 /0.1 m MnSO 4 electrolyte. A high ionic conductivity of 3.32 × 10 −2 S cm −1 is obtained.…”

Section: Recent Progress Of Polymer Electrolytes For Zibsmentioning

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Recent Advances in Polymer Electrolytes for Zinc Ion Batteries: Mechanisms, Properties, and Perspectives

Huang

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Advanced Energy Materials

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Aqueous rechargeable zinc ion batteries (ZIBs) have been deemed to be possible candidates for large‐scale energy storage due to their ecoefficiency, substantial reserve, safety, and low cost. However, the challenges inherent in aqueous electrolytes, such as water splitting reactions, water evaporation, and liquid leakage, have greatly hindered their development in energy storage. Fortunately, polymer electrolytes would be able to overcome the abovementioned challenges. Moreover, the flexible properties of polymer electrolytes can facilitate their future application in wearable electronics. Recently, increasing attention has been attracted to the polymer electrolyte‐based zinc ion batteries. However, the development of polymer electrolytes for ZIBs is still in the early stages due to numerous challenges. Therefore, substantial research effort is required to overcome the challenges of polymer electrolyte‐based ZIBs. In this review, the current progress in developing polymer electrolytes, including solid polymer electrolytes, gel polymer electrolytes, and hybrid polymer electrolytes, as well as the interactions between electrodes and polymer electrolytes for ZIBs is comprehensively reviewed, analyzed, and discussed in terms of their synthesis, characterization, and performance validation. To facilitate further research and development of polymer electrolytes for ZIBs, the relevant challenges are summarized and analyzed, and some underlying approaches to overcome these challenges are also proposed.

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Section: Recent Progress Of Polymer Electrolytes For Zibsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent Advances in Polymer Electrolytes for Zinc Ion Batteries: Mechanisms, Properties, and Perspectives

Huang

et al. 2020

Advanced Energy Materials

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“…Other biopolymers have also been exploited to develop highly flexible ZIBs. For example, upon dissolution of κ‐carrageenan in aqueous ZnSO 4 /MnSO 4 solution and casting the solution onto a rice paper scaffold, [ 162 ] a mechanically flexible GPE with an ionic conductivity of 33.2 mS cm −1 at room temperature was obtained. When mounted in a quasi‐solid‐state Zn/MnO 2 ‐reduced graphene oxide cell, a specific capacity of 291 and 120 mAh g −1 was achieved at 0.15 and 6.0 A g −1 , respectively.…”

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Advances in Natural Biopolymer‐Based Electrolytes and Separators for Battery Applications

Lizundia

Kundu

2020

Adv Funct Materials

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Rechargeable batteries are ubiquitous, and their usage is projected to grow tremendously over the years. They are vital to curbing the fossil fuel dependency and are destined to play a significant role in the future energy landscape. However, rising demand will eventually strain raw material resources, and potentially cripple the development and deployment of associated technologies. In this regard, alongside materials and methods involving sustainable resources, greener manufacturing and recycling potential, renewable resource derived biodegradable materials, i.e., natural biopolymers-are attracting interest for sustainable and eco-friendly future batteries. While they are being studied for nearly all aspects of a battery cell development, their exploration as an electrolyte component has been the subject of widespread investigations. These studies include, but are not limited to, their utilization as the building block for electrolyte wettable and more thermally resistant separators, as an alternative to synthetic polymers in gel polymer and solid polymer electrolytes, and as functional membranes to inhibit the loss of electroactive species in diverse battery chemistries. Here, a summary of natural biopolymer-based electrolytes and separators development that incorporate novel concepts is presented to tackle specific issues in various battery systems and future perspective underpinning their further advancement.

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“…On an attempt to investigate and further minimize the environmental impact as well as manufacturing costs, Huang et al [185] proposed the use of κ-carrageenan as GPE with ZnSO 4 /MnSO 4 , in highly flexible ZIBs with MnO 2 -based hybrid cathodes. However, the GPE hat to be reinforced with rice paper to improve its robustness.…”

Section: Carrageenanmentioning

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A Review of the Use of GPEs in Zinc-Based Batteries. A Step Closer to Wearable Electronic Gadgets and Smart Textiles

2020

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With the flourish of flexible and wearable electronics gadgets, the need for flexible power sources has become essential. The growth of this increasingly diverse range of devices boosted the necessity to develop materials for such flexible power sources such as secondary batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, sensors, dye-sensitized solar cells, etc. In that context, comprehensives studies on flexible conversion and energy storage devices have been released for other technologies such Li-ion standing out the importance of the research done lately in GPEs (gel polymer electrolytes) for energy conversion and storage. However, flexible zinc batteries have not received the attention they deserve within the flexible batteries field, which are destined to be one of the high rank players in the wearable devices future market. This review presents an extensive overview of the most notable or prominent gel polymeric materials, including biobased polymers, and zinc chemistries as well as its practical or functional implementation in flexible wearable devices. The ultimate aim is to highlight zinc-based batteries as power sources to fill a segment of the world flexible batteries future market.

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Flexible quasi-solid-state zinc ion batteries enabled by highly conductive carrageenan bio-polymer electrolyte

Abstract: The zinc ion batteries with KCR electrolyte show a high specific capacity and fast charging and discharging capability.

Cited by 114 publications

References 29 publications

Recent Advances in Polymer Electrolytes for Zinc Ion Batteries: Mechanisms, Properties, and Perspectives

Recent Advances in Polymer Electrolytes for Zinc Ion Batteries: Mechanisms, Properties, and Perspectives

Advances in Natural Biopolymer‐Based Electrolytes and Separators for Battery Applications

A Review of the Use of GPEs in Zinc-Based Batteries. A Step Closer to Wearable Electronic Gadgets and Smart Textiles

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