3D Cold-Trap Environment Printing for Long-Cycle Aqueous Zn-Ion Batteries

Hongyu Lu; Jisong Hu; Yan Zhang; Kaiqi Zhang; Xiaoying Yan; Heqi Li; Jianzhu Li; Yujie Li; Jingxin Zhao; Bingang Xu

doi:10.1002/adma.202209886

3D Cold-Trap Environment Printing for Long-Cycle Aqueous Zn-Ion Batteries

Adv Mater. 2023 Mar;35(9):e2209886. doi: 10.1002/adma.202209886. Epub 2022 Dec 30.

Authors

Hongyu Lu¹, Jisong Hu^{2

3}, Yan Zhang⁴, Kaiqi Zhang², Xiaoying Yan², Heqi Li², Jianzhu Li¹, Yujie Li^{1

2}, Jingxin Zhao⁵, Bingang Xu⁵

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150001, P. R. China.
² School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), Weihai, 264209, P. R. China.
³ School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, P. R. China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Functional Polymer Materials and State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Institute of Polymer Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, P. R. China.
⁵ Nanotechnology Center, School of Fashion and Textiles, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 999077, P. R. China.

PMID: 36515180
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202209886

Abstract

Zn powder (Zn-P)-based anodes are always regarded as ideal anode candidates for zinc ion batteries owing to their low cost and ease of processing. However, the intrinsic negative properties of Zn-P-based anodes such as easy corrosion and uncontrolled dendrite growth have limited their further applications. Herein, a novel 3D cold-trap environment printing (3DCEP) technology is proposed to achieve the MXene and Zn-P (3DCEP-MXene/Zn-P) anode with highly ordered arrangement. Benefitting from the unique inhibition mechanism of high lattice matching and physical confinement effects within the 3DCEP-MXene/Zn-P anode, it can effectively homogenize the Zn²⁺ flux and alleviate the Zn deposition rate of the 3DCEP-MXene/Zn-P anode during Zn plating-stripping. Consequently, the 3DCEP-MXene/Zn-P anode exhibits a superior cycling lifespan of 1400 h with high coulombic efficiency of ≈9.2% in symmetric batteries. More encouragingly, paired with MXene and Co doped MnHCF cathode via 3D cold-trap environment printing (3 DCEP-MXene/Co-MnHCF), the 3DCEP-MXene/Zn-P//3DCEP-MXene/Co-MnHCF full battery delivers high cyclic durability with the capacity retention of 95.7% after 1600 cycles. This study brings an inspired universal pathway to rapidly fabricate a reversible Zn anode with highly ordered arrangement in a cold environment for micro-zinc storage systems.

Keywords: 3D cold-trap environment printing; 3DCEP-MXene/Zn-P anodes; Zn-ion batteries; lattice matching; physical confinement effects.

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