High-Performance Lithium-Air Battery with a Coaxial-Fiber Architecture

Ye Zhang; Lie Wang; Ziyang Guo; Yifan Xu; Yonggang Wang; Huisheng Peng

doi:10.1002/anie.201511832

High-Performance Lithium-Air Battery with a Coaxial-Fiber Architecture

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2016 Mar 24;55(14):4487-91. doi: 10.1002/anie.201511832. Epub 2016 Mar 1.

Authors

Ye Zhang¹, Lie Wang¹, Ziyang Guo², Yifan Xu¹, Yonggang Wang², Huisheng Peng³

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China.
² Department of Chemistry and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Institute of New Energy, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China.
³ State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China. penghs@fudan.edu.cn.

PMID: 26929017
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201511832

Abstract

The lithium-air battery has been proposed as the next-generation energy-storage device with a much higher energy density compared with the conventional lithium-ion battery. However, lithium-air batteries currently suffer enormous problems including parasitic reactions, low recyclability in air, degradation, and leakage of liquid electrolyte. Besides, they are designed into a rigid bulk structure that cannot meet the flexible requirement in the modern electronics. Herein, for the first time, a new family of fiber-shaped lithium-air batteries with high electrochemical performances and flexibility has been developed. The battery exhibited a discharge capacity of 12,470 mAh g(-1) and could stably work for 100 cycles in air; its electrochemical performances were well maintained under bending and after bending. It was also wearable and formed flexible power textiles for various electronic devices.

Keywords: carbon nanotube; flexible devices; gel electrolyte; lithium-air battery; wearable devices.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't