Converting Commercial Zn Foils into Single (002)-Textured Zn with Millimeter-Sized Grains for Highly Reversible Aqueous Zinc Batteries
Zibo Chen
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorQiang Wu
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorXuran Han
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorCheng Wang
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorJialu Chen
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorTao Hu
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorQian He
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorXinyue Zhu
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
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Prof. Du Yuan
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Hunan, 410004 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorProf. Jianyu Chen
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorProf. Yu Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorProf. Lijun Yang
Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE and Jiangsu Provincial Laboratory for Nanotechnology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
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Prof. Yanwen Ma
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Suzhou Vocational Institute of Industrial Technology, Suzhou, 215104 P. R. China
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Prof. Jin Zhao
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorZibo Chen
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorQiang Wu
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorXuran Han
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorCheng Wang
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorJialu Chen
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorTao Hu
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorQian He
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorXinyue Zhu
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Prof. Du Yuan
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Hunan, 410004 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorProf. Jianyu Chen
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorProf. Yu Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorProf. Lijun Yang
Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry of MOE and Jiangsu Provincial Laboratory for Nanotechnology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Prof. Yanwen Ma
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
Suzhou Vocational Institute of Industrial Technology, Suzhou, 215104 P. R. China
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Prof. Jin Zhao
State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 P. R. China
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A simple and fast melting-solidification approach was developed to effectively convert commercial Zn foils into single (002)-textured Zinc with millimeter-sized (eye-visible) grains. The single (002) texture and huge grain features ensure large-scale epitaxial Zn deposition and significantly minimize the intergranular reactions, resulting in impressive reversibility of Zn metal anode in both Zn||Zn symmetric cells and full cells.
Abstract
Rechargeable aqueous zinc batteries are promising but hindered by unfavorable dendrite growth and side reactions on zinc anodes. In this study, we demonstrate a fast melting-solidification approach for effectively converting commercial Zn foils into single (002)-textured Zn featuring millimeter-sized grains. The melting process eliminates initial texture, residual stress, and grain size variations in diverse commercial Zn foils, guaranteeing the uniformity of commercial Zn foils into single (002)-textured Zn. The single (002)-texture ensures large-scale epitaxial and dense Zn deposition, while the reduction in grain boundaries significantly minimizes intergranular reactions. These features enable large grain single (002)-textured Zn shows planar and dense Zn deposition under harsh conditions (100 mA cm−2, 100 mAh cm−2), impressive reversibility in Zn||Zn symmetric cell (3280 h under 1 mA cm−2, 830 h under 10 mAh cm−2), and long cycling stability over 180 h with a high depth of discharge value of 75 %. This study successfully addresses the issue of uncontrollable texture formation in Zn foils following routine annealing treatments with temperatures below the Zn melting point. The findings of this study establish a highly efficient strategy for fabricating highly reversible single (002)-textured Zn anodes.
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