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Mar 8, 2024
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Aug 11
Aqueous zinc batteries are promising for safe energy storage but suffer from low specific energy. Here, Liu et al. report a solid-solid interfacial conversion mechanism, achieving high zinc utilization across cell formats with a 4 e- Zn||I2 pouch cell delivering 116.8 Wh kg-1.
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Aug 11
Aqueous zinc batteries lose capacity while resting, limiting their use for grid storage. Here, Wu et al. show that low zinc salt concentration electrolytes suppress zinc corrosion by reducing reactive solvated water and maintain long cycling stability.
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Jul 22
Internal cracks limit the durability of layered oxide positive electrodes in high-voltage Li-ion batteries. Zhao et al. show that phase transitions and lattice oxygen migration jointly drive crack propagation in LiCoO2, with trapped oxygen gas contributing to structural failure.
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Jun 25
Rongfu Xu et al. tailor cellulose hydroxyl chemistry to create multifunctional binders that stabilize aqueous zinc battery electrodes, boosting capacity, cycling stability, rate performance, and enabling more sustainable battery designs.