Sustainable zinc–air battery chemistry: advances, challenges and prospects

Q Wang, S Kaushik, X Xiao, Q Xu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Sustainable zinc–air batteries (ZABs) are considered promising energy storage devices
owing to their inherent safety, high energy density, wide operating temperature window …

Rational design of flexible Zn-based batteries for wearable electronic devices

X Xiao, Z Zheng, X Zhong, R Gao, Z Piao, M Jiao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The advent of 5G and the Internet of Things has spawned a demand for wearable electronic
devices. However, the lack of a suitable flexible energy storage system has become the …

Quasi-solid-state Zn-air batteries with an atomically dispersed cobalt electrocatalyst and organohydrogel electrolyte

Q Wang, Q Feng, Y Lei, S Tang, L Xu, Y Xiong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Quasi-solid-state Zn-air batteries are usually limited to relatively low-rate ability (< 10 mA
cm− 2), which is caused in part by sluggish oxygen electrocatalysis and unstable …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced polymer-based electrolytes in zinc–air batteries

Q Liu, R Liu, C He, C Xia, W Guo, ZL Xu, BY Xia - escience, 2022 - Elsevier
Zinc–air batteries (ZABs) are expected to be some of the most promising power sources for
wearable and portable electronic devices and have received widespread research interest …

A brief history of zinc–air batteries: 140 years of epic adventures

JN Liu, CX Zhao, J Wang, D Ren, BQ Li… - Energy & Environmental …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Aqueous zinc–air batteries constitute cutting-edge technology toward the next-generation
sustainable energy storage. A retrospective of its general history can help to understand the …

Flexible Zinc–Air Batteries with Ampere‐Hour Capacities and Wide‐Temperature Adaptabilities

X Zhong, Z Zheng, J Xu, X Xiao, C Sun… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Flexible Zn–air batteries (FZABs) have significant potentials as efficient energy
storage devices for wearable electronics because of their safeties and high energy‐to‐cost …

All-round supramolecular zwitterionic hydrogel electrolytes enabling environmentally adaptive dendrite-free aqueous zinc ion capacitors

Q Fu, S Hao, X Zhang, H Zhao, F Xu… - Energy & Environmental …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Aqueous zinc ion capacitors (ZICs) with hydrogel electrolytes (HEs) exhibit the advantages
of high sustainability, inherent safety, appealing energy/power densities, and extraordinary …

Engineering self-adhesive polyzwitterionic hydrogel electrolytes for flexible zinc-ion hybrid capacitors with superior low-temperature adaptability

Q Fu, S Hao, L Meng, F Xu, J Yang - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Flexible zinc-ion hybrid capacitors (ZIHCs) based on hydrogel electrolytes are an up-and-
coming and highly promising candidate for potential large-scale energy storage due to their …

A Polarized Gel Electrolyte for Wide‐Temperature Flexible Zinc‐Air Batteries

M Jiao, L Dai, HR Ren, M Zhang, X Xiao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The development of flexible zinc‐air batteries (FZABs) has attracted broad attention in the
field of wearable electronic devices. Gel electrolyte is one of the most important components …

A polymeric hydrogel electrocatalyst for direct water oxidation

Z Pei, H Tan, J Gu, L Lu, X Zeng, T Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metal-free electrocatalysts represent a main branch of active materials for oxygen evolution
reaction (OER), but they excessively rely on functionalized conjugated carbon materials …