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An aqueous rechargeable zinc-ion battery on basis of an organic pigment

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Neutral aqueous rechargeable zinc-ion batteries are receiving continuous attention because of their advantages of low cost, high safety, environmental friendliness, and high performance, which are difficult to attain with current organic electrolyte-based batteries. In this work, a high-performance aqueous Zn-ion battery based on the organic pigment 3,4,9,10-perylene-tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride (PTCDA) is developed. An electrochemical test shows that the PTCDA possesses a high specific discharge capacity of 136 mAh·g−1 at a current density of 10 mA·g−1. Moreover, the PTCDA cathode displays a good rate performance (77 mAh·g−1 at 1 A·g−1) and an excellent cycle life with a capacity retention of 80% after 2000 cycles. Furthermore, electrochemical analysis and structural characterization originally reveal that the PTCDA cathode undergoes a sequential Zn2+ and H3O+ insertion and extraction process, which is reversible and cycling stable.

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与目前采用有机电解液的二次电池相比, 基于水系电解液的水系锌离子电池由于其具有生产成本低、安全性能高、环境友好等优点而受到了人们的广泛关注。本文报道了一种基于PTCDA有机染料作为正极材料的高性能水系锌离子电池。通过电化学测试和结构表征, 我们提出了PTCDA正极材料在充放电过程中Zn2+ 和 H3O+发生的可逆共嵌入/脱出机理。电化学测试表明, PTCDA具有良好的循环稳定性和倍率性能。在1 A·g−1下循环2000圈后, 其容量依然有80%的保持率。此外, PTCDA也具有良好的容量性能。在10 mA·g−1的电流密度下, 其放电比容量为136 mAh·g−1。这项研究成果表明, 作为水系锌离子电池正极材料的一种, PTCDA有机染料是一种非常具有开发潜力的电极材料。

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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21601089), Jiangsu Specially Appointed Professor Program and the Startup Foundation for Introducing Talent of NUIST. Q. Wang also thanks Jiangsu Province Department of Education (JPDE) for scholarship support.

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    Feng Yu, Yi Wang, Hao-Yuan Hui & Jing-Fa Li

  2. School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, 215500, China

    Quan Wang

  3. School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yancheng Teachers University, Yancheng, 224000, China

    Yu Liu

  4. Department of Chemistry and Food Chemistry and Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (Cfaed), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, 01062, Germany

    Fa-Xing Wang

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Yu, F., Wang, Y., Liu, Y. et al. An aqueous rechargeable zinc-ion battery on basis of an organic pigment. Rare Met. 41, 2230–2236 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-021-01941-8

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