Simply prepared electrocatalyst of CoFe alloy and nitrogen-doped carbon with multi-dimensional structure and high performance for rechargeable zinc-air battery

He, Yu; Xi, Zhiwei; Xu, Chunli

doi:10.1088/1361-6528/ac85c4

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“…However, in the current literature, the vast majority of reported works continue to use excessive amounts of zinc as anodes to demonstrate the rechargeability of the zinc-air battery configuration studied. [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] In this context, it was already mentioned in the 1990s during the development of mechanically rechargeable zinc-air batteries that this situation imposed by improper balancing should "not become an additional anchor the car or truck has to haul" besides the inevitably necessary. Consequently, this implies that metallic zinc present must be used completely for the electrochemical conversion.…”

Section: Setting the Scene Of Rechargeabilitymentioning

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A Long‐Overlooked Pitfall in Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries: Proper Electrode Balancing

Deckenbach

Schneider

2023

Adv Materials Inter

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advance at the end of the 1990s, the current electrification needs in nearly all sectors would be difficult to imagine, striving our daily life from miniaturized applications up to massive energy storage demands in transportation. With regards to zero-emission passenger transportation using battery powered vehicles, the advantage of the lithium-ion battery seems currently undisputed.This steadily increasing demand for lithium-ion batteries currently raises the question of whether and how long the availability of raw materials can be guaranteed. Moreover, the constantly expanding range of applications for the lithium-ion technology means that the safety aspects to be fulfilled are becoming ever more stringent, which are known to be the weak spot of this system due to the high reactivity of lithium. [1][2][3][4] Consequently, the lithium-ion battery is subjected to enormous performance pressure, because as a universal remedy it must meet the most diverse requirements. [5] Nevertheless, the lithium-ion battery is meanwhile used ubiquitously due to the current absence of suitable and technologically mature alternatives, which further exacerbates the raw material situation. [5,6] Due to the enormous application potential of the lithium-ion battery, other battery technologies (nickel-cadmium, nickelmetal hydride, lead-acid) that have been known for a long time are meanwhile pushed out of the market or represent only niche products known for just a specific application. [7][8][9] This is true for the zinc-air battery too, which is mainly known to the consumer as a non-rechargeable battery for hearing aids. However, it has also been known as a battery and mobile charger for military applications, since it is heavy duty under the most adverse conditions, while allowing high energy density and maintaining high safety requirements. [10][11][12] Yet, already in the mid-1990s, zinc-air batteries were on the verge of their breakthrough as a rechargeable energy storage device that would usher in the complete electrification of Germany's postal fleet at that time. [13] As a mechanically rechargeable battery system in a van fleet of 60 cars, the used zinc metal (Zn) anodes were removed as a full pack from the spent battery set and replaced by a fresh metal pack to recover the battery. With that, a usage of more than 320 km with an energy density of 200 Wh kg −1 had already been achieved under realistic conditions. [13] In times of an ever-increasing demand for portable energy storage systems, post-lithium-based battery systems are increasingly coming into the focus of current research. In this realm, zinc-air batteries can be considered a very promising candidate to expand the existing portfolio of lithium-based rechargeable battery systems due to their high theoretical energy density of 1086 Wh kg −1 . Despite a steady increase in research over the past 5 years, a breakthrough in realizing fully electrically rechargeable zinc-air batteries has yet to come. This perspective article highlights pitfalls that have probably hampered ...

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Section: Setting the Scene Of Rechargeabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

A Long‐Overlooked Pitfall in Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries: Proper Electrode Balancing

Deckenbach

Schneider

2023

Adv Materials Inter

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Hydrogel-involved portable colorimetric sensor based on oxidase mimic Fe/Co-NC for acetylcholinesterase detection and pesticides inhibition assessment

Zhou,

Wang,

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Food Chemistry

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Recent advances in scanning electrochemical microscopy for energy applications

Wang,

Tang,

et al. 2024

Nanotechnology

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Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) is a scanning probe technique capable of imaging substrate topography and measuring the local electrochemical reactivity of interfaces. Since introduced by Allen J. Bard and co-workers in 1989, it has expanded into a wide variety of fields, such as nanomaterial characterization, energy, kinetics, electrocatalysis, metal anti-corrosion, biology and instrumental development. SECM uses an ultra-microelectrode as the probe to record redox current during probe scanning across sample surfaces to obtain local topography and electrochemical reactivity of samples. Specifically, three main topics are reviewed and discussed: (1) the working principles and operating modes of SECM; (2) the recent developments in the application of SECM in energy science, including solar cell, rechargeable batteries, fuel cell and supercapacitors, with an emphasis on the last ﬁve years (2019-2023); (3) the perspectives and outlook of SECM in various energy devices. We anticipate that a wider adoption of SECM by the energy community will allow for the operando characterization of many types of reactions, and hold the potential to provide new insights into the structure/activity and composition/activity relationships.

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Simply prepared electrocatalyst of CoFe alloy and nitrogen-doped carbon with multi-dimensional structure and high performance for rechargeable zinc-air battery

Cited by 3 publications

References 62 publications

A Long‐Overlooked Pitfall in Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries: Proper Electrode Balancing

A Long‐Overlooked Pitfall in Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries: Proper Electrode Balancing

Hydrogel-involved portable colorimetric sensor based on oxidase mimic Fe/Co-NC for acetylcholinesterase detection and pesticides inhibition assessment

Recent advances in scanning electrochemical microscopy for energy applications

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