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Freestanding carbon nanotube/orthorhombic V2O5 nanobelt films for advanced aqueous zinc-ion batteries: electrochemical performance and in situ Raman spectroscopy investigations

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Among many energy storage equipment, aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) have attracted much attention because of their high safety and low cost. Herein, orthorhombic V2O5 nanobelts (NBs-V2O5) are prepared, and it is compounded with carbon nanotubes (CNTs), achieving freestanding NBs-V2O5/CNTs composite films. When NBs-V2O5/CNTs cathode is used for AZIBs, the assembled batteries provide excellent rate capability, large capacity of 380 mAh g−1 at 0.2 A g−1, and high capacity retention rate of 95% after 1000 cycles at the current density of 5 A g−1. Besides, due to the outstanding conductivity and flexibility of the NBs-V2O5/CNTs composite films, soft-package batteries are assembled with steady electrochemical performance at various bending states. The NBs-V2O5/CNTs cathode exhibits a Zn2+/H+ insertion/extraction storage mechanism during charge/discharge processes by in situ Raman spectroscopy investigations, leading to fast kinetics of ion transfer.

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This work is financially supported by The National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12074327, 12002294, and 11774298), the Science and Technology Innovation Program of Hunan Province (Nos. 2020JJ4088 and 2020RC1009), and Innovation-Driven Project of Xiangtan University (CX 20190471).

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Wang, Y., Liu, X., Xu, G. et al. Freestanding carbon nanotube/orthorhombic V2O5 nanobelt films for advanced aqueous zinc-ion batteries: electrochemical performance and in situ Raman spectroscopy investigations. Ionics 28, 4709–4718 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-022-04684-3

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