Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Defect engineering on V2O3 cathode for long-cycling aqueous zinc metal batteries

  • Kefu Zhu,
  • Shiqiang Wei,
  • Hongwei Shou,
  • Feiran Shen,
  • Shuangming Chen,
  • Pengjun Zhang,
  • Changda Wang,
  • Yuyang Cao,
  • Xin Guo,
  • Mi Luo,
  • Hongjun Zhang,
  • Bangjiao Ye,
  • Xiaojun Wu,
  • Lunhua He,
  • Li Song

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27203-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Aqueous Zn metal batteries are a promising system for high-power electrochemical energy storage. Here, the authors investigate a defective V2O3 cathode via neutron and X-ray techniques and test the material in Zn metal cell configuration for 30k cycles.