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Title: An advanced high energy-efficiency rechargeable aluminum-selenium battery

Abstract

We report that aluminum-ion batteries (AIBs) are considered as a promising alternative to traditional rechargeable batteries due to their high theoretical capacity, low cost, and multivalent-ion/multi-electron transfer, but are hindered from commercialization by the lack of suitable cathode materials. Herein, an aluminum-selenium (Al-Se) battery that operates at room temperature with high energy efficiency is reported. This Al-Se battery exhibits high selenium utilization with a discharge capacity of 607 mAh g-1, a reduced overpotential, and high volumetric capacity for over 100 cycles. Furthermore, ex-situ spectroscopic and microscopic investigations of the Se cathodes indicated the existence of an aluminum selenide component as the discharge product. Additionally, in-situ transmission electron microscopy provided not only insights into understanding the Al-Se electrochemistry, but also a real-time characterization technique to evaluate the electrochemistry of AIBs in general.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [3];  [4];  [2];  [5];  [1];  [6]
  1. Beijing Univ. of Technology (China)
  2. China Univ. of Petroleum, Beijing (China)
  3. Beijing Univ. of Technology (China); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
  4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
  5. Yanshan Univ., Qinhuangdao (China)
  6. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Stanford Univ., CA (United States); IRMC, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU), Dammam (Saudi Arabia)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); National Key Research and Development Program of China; Beijing Natural Science Foundation
OSTI Identifier:
1618049
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1694276
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; 51622202; 21603009; 21875007; 51971245; 2018YFB0104302; KZ201910005002; L182065
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nano Energy
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 66; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 2211-2855
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Aluminum-ion battery; Aluminum-selenium battery; High energy efficiency; In-situ TEM; Reaction mechanism

Citation Formats

Liu, Shiqi, Zhang, Xu, He, Shiman, Tang, Yushu, Wang, Jie, Wang, Boya, Zhao, Shu, Su, Heng, Ren, Yang, Zhang, Liqiang, Huang, Jianyu, Yu, Haijun, and Amine, Khalil. An advanced high energy-efficiency rechargeable aluminum-selenium battery. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.104159.
Liu, Shiqi, Zhang, Xu, He, Shiman, Tang, Yushu, Wang, Jie, Wang, Boya, Zhao, Shu, Su, Heng, Ren, Yang, Zhang, Liqiang, Huang, Jianyu, Yu, Haijun, & Amine, Khalil. An advanced high energy-efficiency rechargeable aluminum-selenium battery. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.104159
Liu, Shiqi, Zhang, Xu, He, Shiman, Tang, Yushu, Wang, Jie, Wang, Boya, Zhao, Shu, Su, Heng, Ren, Yang, Zhang, Liqiang, Huang, Jianyu, Yu, Haijun, and Amine, Khalil. Fri . "An advanced high energy-efficiency rechargeable aluminum-selenium battery". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.104159. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1618049.
@article{osti_1618049,
title = {An advanced high energy-efficiency rechargeable aluminum-selenium battery},
author = {Liu, Shiqi and Zhang, Xu and He, Shiman and Tang, Yushu and Wang, Jie and Wang, Boya and Zhao, Shu and Su, Heng and Ren, Yang and Zhang, Liqiang and Huang, Jianyu and Yu, Haijun and Amine, Khalil},
abstractNote = {We report that aluminum-ion batteries (AIBs) are considered as a promising alternative to traditional rechargeable batteries due to their high theoretical capacity, low cost, and multivalent-ion/multi-electron transfer, but are hindered from commercialization by the lack of suitable cathode materials. Herein, an aluminum-selenium (Al-Se) battery that operates at room temperature with high energy efficiency is reported. This Al-Se battery exhibits high selenium utilization with a discharge capacity of 607 mAh g-1, a reduced overpotential, and high volumetric capacity for over 100 cycles. Furthermore, ex-situ spectroscopic and microscopic investigations of the Se cathodes indicated the existence of an aluminum selenide component as the discharge product. Additionally, in-situ transmission electron microscopy provided not only insights into understanding the Al-Se electrochemistry, but also a real-time characterization technique to evaluate the electrochemistry of AIBs in general.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.104159},
journal = {Nano Energy},
number = C,
volume = 66,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Fri Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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