Flexible high energy density zinc-ion batteries enabled by binder-free MnO2/reduced graphene oxide electrode

Zinc-ion batteries: a carbon based promoter Simple carbon materials are shown to modify the MnO2 electrodes and greatly enhance the capacity and cyclability for zinc-ion batteries. An international team led by Prof Hang Zhou from Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, China developed high perfo...

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Main Authors: Yuan Huang, Jiuwei Liu, Qiyao Huang, Zijian Zheng, Pritesh Hiralal, Fulin Zheng, Dilek Ozgit, Sikai Su, Shuming Chen, Ping-Heng Tan, Shengdong Zhang, Hang Zhou
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/bc931aa91b6c4748bb6fcd32a31a77a9
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Summary:Zinc-ion batteries: a carbon based promoter Simple carbon materials are shown to modify the MnO2 electrodes and greatly enhance the capacity and cyclability for zinc-ion batteries. An international team led by Prof Hang Zhou from Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, China developed high performance flexible zinc-ion batteries with MnO2 and reduced graphene-oxide composites as the electrodes. The electrodes are prepared by vacuum filtering the suspension of the mixture of reduced graphene oxide and hydrothermal synthesized MnO2 nanosheets. The incorporation of reduced graphene oxide not only enhances the battery capacity by improving the conductivity and increasing the specific surface area, but also reduces the production cost by saving the trouble to use other binders or additives. Due to above advantages, this approach is competitive for wearable energy storage devices.