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Title: Recent Advances in Flexible Zinc-Based Rechargeable Batteries

Abstract

Abstract Flexible Zn‐based batteries are regarded as promising alternatives to flexible lithium‐ion batteries for wearable electronics owing to the natural advantages of zinc, such as environmental friendliness and low cost. In the past few years, flexible Zn‐based batteries have been studied intensively and exciting achievements have been obtained in this field. However, the development of flexible Zn‐based batteries is still at an early stage. The challenges of developing flexible lithium‐ion batteries are presented here. Then, a brief overview of recent progress in flexible zinc secondary batteries from the perspective of advanced materials and some issues that remain to be addressed are discussed.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [1];  [6]; ORCiD logo [7]
  1. Tianjin Univ., Tianjin (China). Key Lab. of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering
  2. Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada). Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology
  3. Tianjin Univ., Tianjin (China). Key Lab. of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology (Ministry of Education), School of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Lab. of Composite and Functional Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering
  4. X-Ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 Cass Ave Lemont IL 60439 USA
  5. Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada). Dept. of Engineering
  6. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division; Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Material Science and Engineering
  7. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division
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Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
National Science Foundation (NSF); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V); USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1504453
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1481336
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; DE‐AC02‐06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Energy Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 42 ENGINEERING; batteries; flexible; rechargeable; zinc

Citation Formats

Li, Yingbo, Fu, Jing, Zhong, Cheng, Wu, Tianpin, Chen, Zhongwei, Hu, Wenbin, Amine, Khalil, and Lu, Jun. Recent Advances in Flexible Zinc-Based Rechargeable Batteries. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.201802605.
Li, Yingbo, Fu, Jing, Zhong, Cheng, Wu, Tianpin, Chen, Zhongwei, Hu, Wenbin, Amine, Khalil, & Lu, Jun. Recent Advances in Flexible Zinc-Based Rechargeable Batteries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201802605
Li, Yingbo, Fu, Jing, Zhong, Cheng, Wu, Tianpin, Chen, Zhongwei, Hu, Wenbin, Amine, Khalil, and Lu, Jun. Thu . "Recent Advances in Flexible Zinc-Based Rechargeable Batteries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201802605. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1504453.
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title = {Recent Advances in Flexible Zinc-Based Rechargeable Batteries},
author = {Li, Yingbo and Fu, Jing and Zhong, Cheng and Wu, Tianpin and Chen, Zhongwei and Hu, Wenbin and Amine, Khalil and Lu, Jun},
abstractNote = {Abstract Flexible Zn‐based batteries are regarded as promising alternatives to flexible lithium‐ion batteries for wearable electronics owing to the natural advantages of zinc, such as environmental friendliness and low cost. In the past few years, flexible Zn‐based batteries have been studied intensively and exciting achievements have been obtained in this field. However, the development of flexible Zn‐based batteries is still at an early stage. The challenges of developing flexible lithium‐ion batteries are presented here. Then, a brief overview of recent progress in flexible zinc secondary batteries from the perspective of advanced materials and some issues that remain to be addressed are discussed.},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.201802605},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Nov 08 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Nov 08 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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