{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Wang X"],"funding":["Chinese Academy of Sciences","National Key R&amp;D Program of China","DICP","DNL Cooperation Fund","National Natural Science Foundation of China","Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province","Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program","Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics"],"pagination":["64-72"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8288951"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["7(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["The rapid development of printed and microscale electronics imminently requires compatible micro-batteries (MBs) with high performance, applicable scalability, and exceptional safety, but faces great challenges from the ever-reported stacked geometry. Herein the first printed planar prototype of aqueous-based, high-safety Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> MBs, with outstanding performance, aesthetic diversity, flexibility and modularization, is demonstrated, based on interdigital patterns of Zn ink as anode and MnO<sub>2</sub> ink as cathode, with high-conducting graphene ink as a metal-free current collector, fabricated by an industrially scalable screen-printing technique. The planar separator-free Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> MBs, tested in neutral aqueous electrolyte, deliver a high volumetric capacity of 19.3 mAh/cm<sup>3</sup> (corresponding to 393 mAh/g) at 7.5 mA/cm<sup>3</sup>, and notable volumetric energy density of 17.3 mWh/cm<sup>3</sup>, outperforming lithium thin-film batteries (≤10 mWh/cm<sup>3</sup>). Furthermore, our Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> MBs present long-term cyclability having a high capacity retention of 83.9% after 1300 cycles at 5 C, which is superior to stacked Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> batteries previously reported. Also, Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> planar MBs exhibit exceptional flexibility without observable capacity decay under serious deformation, and remarkably serial and parallel integration of constructing bipolar cells with high voltage and capacity output. Therefore, low-cost, environmentally benign Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> MBs with in-plane geometry possess huge potential as high-energy, safe, scalable and flexible microscale power sources for direction integration with printed electronics."],"journal":["National science review"],"pubmed_title":["Scalable fabrication of printed Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> planar micro-batteries with high volumetric energy density and exceptional safety."],"pmcid":["PMC8288951"],"funding_grant_id":["XLYC1807153","DNL180310","DICP ZZBS201708","UN201702","21805273","DICP ZZBS201802","51872283","2016YFA0200200","20180510038","51572259","2016YFB0100100","DNL180308"],"pubmed_authors":["Wu ZS","Qin J","Wang S","Sun C","Bao X","Zheng S","Wang X","Zhou F","Shi X"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Scalable fabrication of printed Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> planar micro-batteries with high volumetric energy density and exceptional safety.","description":"The rapid development of printed and microscale electronics imminently requires compatible micro-batteries (MBs) with high performance, applicable scalability, and exceptional safety, but faces great challenges from the ever-reported stacked geometry. Herein the first printed planar prototype of aqueous-based, high-safety Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> MBs, with outstanding performance, aesthetic diversity, flexibility and modularization, is demonstrated, based on interdigital patterns of Zn ink as anode and MnO<sub>2</sub> ink as cathode, with high-conducting graphene ink as a metal-free current collector, fabricated by an industrially scalable screen-printing technique. The planar separator-free Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> MBs, tested in neutral aqueous electrolyte, deliver a high volumetric capacity of 19.3 mAh/cm<sup>3</sup> (corresponding to 393 mAh/g) at 7.5 mA/cm<sup>3</sup>, and notable volumetric energy density of 17.3 mWh/cm<sup>3</sup>, outperforming lithium thin-film batteries (≤10 mWh/cm<sup>3</sup>). Furthermore, our Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> MBs present long-term cyclability having a high capacity retention of 83.9% after 1300 cycles at 5 C, which is superior to stacked Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> batteries previously reported. Also, Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> planar MBs exhibit exceptional flexibility without observable capacity decay under serious deformation, and remarkably serial and parallel integration of constructing bipolar cells with high voltage and capacity output. Therefore, low-cost, environmentally benign Zn//MnO<sub>2</sub> MBs with in-plane geometry possess huge potential as high-energy, safe, scalable and flexible microscale power sources for direction integration with printed electronics.","dates":{"release":"2020-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2020 Jan","modification":"2025-04-19T21:17:39.232Z","creation":"2025-04-19T21:17:39.232Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8288951","cross_references":{"pubmed":["34692018"],"doi":["10.1093/nsr/nwz070"]}}