A Flexible Quasi-Solid-State Nickel-Zinc Battery with High Energy and Power Densities Based on 3D Electrode Design

Jinping Liu; Cao Guan; Cheng Zhou; Zhen Fan; Qingqing Ke; Guozhen Zhang; Chang Liu; John Wang

doi:10.1002/adma.201603038

A Flexible Quasi-Solid-State Nickel-Zinc Battery with High Energy and Power Densities Based on 3D Electrode Design

Adv Mater. 2016 Oct;28(39):8732-8739. doi: 10.1002/adma.201603038. Epub 2016 Aug 26.

Authors

Jinping Liu¹, Cao Guan², Cheng Zhou³, Zhen Fan⁴, Qingqing Ke⁴, Guozhen Zhang⁵, Chang Liu⁵, John Wang⁴

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, P. R. China. [email protected].
² Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117574, Singapore. [email protected].
³ School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Life Science and State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, P. R. China.
⁴ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, 117574, Singapore.
⁵ Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, P. R. China.

PMID: 27562134
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201603038

Abstract

A flexible quasi-solid-state Ni-Zn battery is developed by using tiny ZnO nanoparticles and porous ultrathin NiO nanoflakes conformally deposited on hierar chical carbon-cloth-carbon-fiber (CC-CF) as the anode (CC-CF@ZnO) and cathode (CC-CF@NiO), respectively. The device is able to deliver high performance (absence of Zn dendrite), superior to previous reports on aqueous Ni-Zn batteries and other flexible electrochemical energy-storage devices.

Keywords: Ni-Zn battery; atomic layer deposition; energy/power density; metal oxide; quasi-solid-state.