Unravelling rechargeable zinc-copper batteries by a chloride shuttle in a biphasic electrolyte.

ABSTRACT: The zinc-copper redox couple exhibits several merits, which motivated us to reconstruct the rechargeable Daniell cell by combining chloride shuttle chemistry in a zinc chloride-based aqueous/organic biphasic electrolyte. An ion-selective interface was established to restrict the copper ions in the aqueous phase while ensuring chloride transfer. We demonstrated that the copper-water-chloro solvation complexes are the descriptors, which are predominant in aqueous solutions with optimized concentrations of zinc chloride; thus, copper crossover is prevented. Without this prevention, the copper ions are mostly in the hydration state and exhibit high spontaneity to be solvated in the organic phase. The zinc-copper cell delivers a highly reversible capacity of 395 mAh g^-1 with nearly 1

SUBMITTER: Xu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10125991 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature