scholarly journals Manipulating Interfacial Stability Via Absorption-Competition Mechanism for Long-Lifespan Zn Anode

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meijia Qiu ◽  
Liang Ma ◽  
Peng Sun ◽  
Zilong Wang ◽  
Guofeng Cui ◽  
...  

AbstractThe stability of Zn anode in various Zn-based energy storage devices is the key problem to be solved. Herein, aromatic aldehyde additives are selected to modulate the interface reactions between the Zn anode and electrolyte. Through comprehensively considering electrochemical measurements, DFT calculations and FEA simulations, novel mechanisms of one kind of aromatic aldehyde, veratraldehyde in inhibiting Zn dendrite/by-products can be obtained. This additive prefers to absorb on the Zn surface than H2O molecules and Zn2+, while competes with hydrogen evolution reaction and Zn plating/stripping process via redox reactions, thus preventing the decomposition of active H2O near the interface and uncontrollable Zn dendrite growth via a synactic absorption-competition mechanism. As a result, Zn–Zn symmetric cells with the veratraldehyde additive realize an excellent cycling life of 3200 h under 1 mA cm−2/1 mAh cm−2 and over 800 h even under 5 mA cm−2/5 mAh cm−2. Moreover, Zn–Ti and Zn–MnO2 cells with the veratraldehyde additive both obtain elevated performance than that with pure ZnSO4 electrolyte. Finally, two more aromatic aldehyde additives are chosen to prove their universality in stabilizing Zn anodes.

2018 ◽  
Vol 778 ◽  
pp. 181-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tayyaba Malik ◽  
Shayan Naveed ◽  
Muhammad Muneer ◽  
Mohammad Ali Mohammad

Recently, supercapacitors have attracted a tremendous amount of attention as energy-storage devices due to their high-power density, fast charge–discharge ability, excellent reversibility, and long cycling life. In this research work, we demonstrate a laser scribed super capacitor based on polyimide (PI) substrate for the storage of electrical energy. PI substrate of thickness 200μm and area 1cm × 1cm was reduced by a laser engraver with a 450 nm wavelength in the form of stackable supercapacitor electrodes. Although, PI itself exhibits non-conductive behavior; however, by laser irradiation we change the surface properties of PI and reduce its resistance. The chemical property of irradiated PI was characterized with XRD where the carbon peak was observed at 2*theta = 25.44, which confirms the reduction of PI material in to a graphene-like substance. The electrical conductivity was analyzed with a probe station and observed to be 1.6mS. Two conductive regions were assembled into a capacitor device by sandwiching a PVA/H3PO4 electrolyte in between. During the charging and discharging characterization of the capacitor device, current density was observed to be 1.5mA/cm2. Capacitance versus voltage analysis was carried out and the device showed 75mF/cm2 against a voltage sweep of ±2V. The galvanostatic charging and discharging curve shows a symmetric behavior with respect to time exhibiting the stability and durability of the device.


Author(s):  
Javad Khazaei ◽  
Dinh Hoa Nguyen

One of the major challenges of existing highly distributed smart grid system is the centralized supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, which suffers from single point of failure. This chapter introduces a novel distributed control algorithm for distributed energy storage devices in smart grids that can communicate with the neighboring storage units and share information in order to achieve a global objective. These global objectives include voltage regulation, frequency restoration, and active/reactive power sharing (demand response). Consensus theory is used to develop controllers for multiple energy storage devices in a cyber-physical environment, where the cyber layer includes the communication system between the storage devices and the physical layer includes the actual control and closed-loop system. Detailed proof of designs is introduced to ensure the stability and convergence of the proposed designs. Finally, the designed algorithms are validated using time-domain simulations in IEEE 14-bus system using MATLAB software.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Yao ◽  
Mingyang Li ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
Yu Song ◽  
...  

Abstract Ultrafast-charging energy storage devices are attractive for powering personal electronics and electric vehicles. Most ultrafast-charging devices are made of carbonaceous materials such as chemically converted graphene and carbon nanotubes. Yet, their relatively low electrical conductivity may restrict their performance at ultrahigh charging rate. Here, we report the fabrication of a porous titanium nitride (TiN) paper as an alternative electrode material for ultrafast-charging devices. The TiN paper shows an excellent conductivity of 3.67 × 104 S m−1, which is considerably higher than most carbon-based electrodes. The paper-like structure also contains a combination of large pores between interconnected nanobelts and mesopores within the nanobelts. This unique electrode enables fast charging by simultaneously providing efficient ion diffusion and electron transport. The supercapacitors (SCs) made of TiN paper enable charging/discharging at an ultrahigh scan rate of 100 V s−1 in a wide voltage window of 1.5 V in Na2SO4 neutral electrolyte. It has an outstanding response time with a characteristic time constant of 4 ms. Significantly, the TiN paper-based SCs also show zero capacitance loss after 200,000 cycles, which is much better than the stability performance reported for other metal nitride SCs. Furthermore, the device shows great promise in scalability. The filtration method enables good control of the thickness and mass loading of TiN electrodes and devices.


Author(s):  
Bhukya Yuktha Mukhi

If The stand-alone dc microgrid system with a PVA i.e solar renewable energy source is operated without any supportive energy storage sources like battery and supercapacitor, then it will lead to an unstable operation of a DC microgrid, so it necessitates the usage of energy storage devices for maintaining stability in the system and also to improve the efficiency of PVA we have used an MPPT controller with P&O algorithm which provides a required duty ratio for DC-DC boost converter and this converter sees that the maximum power can be transmitted from PVA to loads. In this paper, we present how we performed a simulation study by integrating Simulink models like PVA, MPPT, battery, and Supercapacitor at Point of common coupling with DC loads and observed the stability of the system with different conditions like the change of irradiances during charging and discharging processes of storage devices and observed how is the power-sharing from PVA, Battery, and supercapacitor concerning change in load.


CCS Chemistry ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 128-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo-Quan Li ◽  
Hong-Jie Peng ◽  
Xiang Chen ◽  
Shu-Yuan Zhang ◽  
Jin Xie ◽  
...  

Lithium–sulfur batteries with an ultrahigh theoretical energy density of 2600 Wh kg −1 are highly considered as desirable next-generation energy storage devices that will meet the growing demand of energy consumption worldwide. However, complicated sulfur redox reactions and polysulfide shuttling significantly postpone the applications of lithium–sulfur batteries with rapid capacity decay and low Coulombic efficiency. Herein, a unique strategy of polysulfide electrocatalysis is proposed to improve the kinetics of the sulfur species and inhibit polysulfide shuttling in working lithium–sulfur batteries. Inspired by a natural biocatalyst and congener oxygen electrocatalysis, porphyrin was selected as the electrocatalytic active site, and framework porphyrin (POF) electrocatalysts were rationally designed, precisely fabricated, and demonstrated superior full-scheme electrocatalytic performance with regard to improving the kinetics for polysulfide conversion, Li 2S nucleation, and dissolution of Li 2S to polysulfides, simultaneously. Consequently, the lithium–sulfur batteries with POF electrocatalysts achieve high capacity of 1611 mAh·g −1 at 0.1 C; outstanding stability with the capacity decay rate of 0.071% in 400 cycles, and satisfied performance with a high sulfur loading up to 4.3 mg·cm −2. The strategy of polysulfide electrocatalysis develops our chemical understanding of sulfur species in energy-related applications and inspires the electrocatalysis concept for extended energy conversion and storage systems based on multielectron redox reactions.


Author(s):  
Yin Hu ◽  
Anjun Hu ◽  
Jianwei Wang ◽  
Xiaobin Niu ◽  
Mingjie Zhou ◽  
...  

The sluggish kinetics of the complex redox reactions in Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) battery still hinders the fulfillment of its promising potential for next-generation energy storage devices. Herein, we introduce CoIn2S4 nanostructured...


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 3527-3535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nana Chang ◽  
Tianyu Li ◽  
Rui Li ◽  
Shengnan Wang ◽  
Yanbin Yin ◽  
...  

A frigostable aqueous hybrid electrolyte enabled by the solvation interaction of Zn2+–EG is proposed for low-temperature zinc-based energy storage devices.


2003 ◽  
Vol 772 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Schmid ◽  
C. Goze-Bac ◽  
M. Mehring ◽  
S. Roth ◽  
P. Bernier

AbstractLithium intercalted carbon nanotubes have attracted considerable interest as perspective components for energy storage devices. We performed 13C Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spin lattice relaxation measurements in a temperature range from 4 K up to 300 on alkali intercalated Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in order to investigate the modifications of the electronic properties. The density of states at the Fermi level were determined for pristine, lithium and cesium intercalated carbon nanotubes and are discussed in terms of intercalation and charge transfer effects.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saneyuki Ohno ◽  
Tim Bernges ◽  
Johannes Buchheim ◽  
Marc Duchardt ◽  
Anna-Katharina Hatz ◽  
...  

<p>Owing to highly conductive solid ionic conductors, all-solid-state batteries attract significant attention as promising next-generation energy storage devices. A lot of research is invested in the search and optimization of solid electrolytes with higher ionic conductivity. However, a systematic study of an <i>interlaboratory reproducibility</i> of measured ionic conductivities and activation energies is missing, making the comparison of absolute values in literature challenging. In this study, we perform an uncertainty evaluation via a Round Robin approach using different Li-argyrodites exhibiting orders of magnitude different ionic conductivities as reference materials. Identical samples are distributed to different research laboratories and the conductivities and activation barriers are measured by impedance spectroscopy. The results show large ranges of up to 4.5 mScm<sup>-1</sup> in the measured total ionic conductivity (1.3 – 5.8 mScm<sup>-1</sup> for the highest conducting sample, relative standard deviation 35 – 50% across all samples) and up to 128 meV for the activation barriers (198 – 326 meV, relative standard deviation 5 – 15%, across all samples), presenting the necessity of a more rigorous methodology including further collaborations within the community and multiplicate measurements.</p>


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yamin Zhang ◽  
Zhongpu Wang ◽  
Deping Li ◽  
Qing Sun ◽  
Kangrong Lai ◽  
...  

<p></p><p>Porous carbon has attracted extensive attentions as the electrode material for various energy storage devices considering its advantages like high theoretical capacitance/capacity, high conductivity, low cost and earth abundant inherence. However, there still exists some disadvantages limiting its further applications, such as the tedious fabrication process, limited metal-ion transport kinetics and undesired structure deformation at harsh electrochemical conditions. Herein, we report a facile strategy, with calcium gluconate firstly reported as the carbon source, to fabricate ultrathin porous carbon nanosheets. <a>The as-prepared Ca-900 electrode delivers excellent K-ion storage performance including high reversible capacity (430.7 mAh g<sup>-1</sup>), superior rate capability (154.8 mAh g<sup>-1</sup> at an ultrahigh current density of 5.0 A g<sup>-1</sup>) and ultra-stable long-term cycling stability (a high capacity retention ratio of ~81.2% after 4000 cycles at 1.0 A g<sup>-1</sup>). </a>Similarly, when being applied in Zn-ion capacitors, the Ca-900 electrode also exhibits an ultra-stable cycling performance with ~90.9% capacity retention after 4000 cycles at 1.0 A g<sup>-1</sup>, illuminating the applicable potentials. Moreover, the origin of the fast and smooth metal-ion storage is also revealed by carefully designed consecutive CV measurements. Overall, considering the facile preparation strategy, unique structure, application flexibility and in-depth mechanism investigations, this work will deepen the fundamental understandings and boost the commercialization of high-efficient energy storage devices like potassium-ion/sodium-ion batteries, zinc-ion batteries/capacitors and aluminum-ion batteries.</p><br><p></p>


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