Journal
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 525, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2022.231122
Keywords
Zn anode; Zn dendrites; Surface engineering; Protective coating; Zn batteries
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Aqueous rechargeable Zn batteries have significant potential for energy storage applications, but face challenges with Zn anode that require surface engineering for stabilization. Surface engineering of Zn anode through artificial protective layers/coatings is an emerging and promising research direction.
Aqueous rechargeable Zn batteries have gathered supreme significance and importance in the recent times as promising energy storage devices. Zn batteries possess prodigious potential for safer and large-scale energy storage applications. However, the critical challenges associated with both Zn anode and cathode adversely affects their widespread commercialization that needs urgent methodologies to tackle these issues governed by thermodynamic instability of Zn anode in traditional aqueous electrolytes. The water induced unwanted side reactions include Zn dendrites, corrosion, shape change, passivation, H2 evolution that leads to poor Zn utilization and reversibility. Surface engineering of Zn anode through artificial protective layers/coatings is an emerging and promising research direction towards stabilization of Zn metal anodes. In this review, we summarize briefly the critical issues of Zn anode in aqueous environment and then switching to the up-to-date developments in surface coatings for Zn anode, with comprehensive explanations of their working principles. This review will provide latest and summarized literature for Zn battery community assisting them to design novel Zn anode protective approaches.
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