Zincate-Blocking-Functionalized Polysulfone Separators for Secondary Zn–MnO2 Batteries
Abstract
Alkaline zinc–manganese dioxide (Zn–MnO2) batteries are well suited for grid storage applications because of their inherently safe, aqueous electrolyte and established materials supply chain, resulting in low production costs. With recent advances in the development of Cu/Bi-stabilized birnessite cathodes capable of the full 2-electron capacity equivalent of MnO2 (617 mA h/g), there is a need for selective separators that prevent zincate (Zn(OH)4)2– transport from the anode to the cathode during cycling, as this electrode system fails in the presence of dissolved zinc. In this work, we present the synthesis of N-butylimidazolium-functionalized polysulfone (NBI-PSU)-based separators and evaluate their ability to selectively transport hydroxide over zincate. We then examine their impact on the cycling of high depth of discharge Zn/(Cu/Bi–MnO2) batteries when inserted in between the cathode and anode. Initially, we establish our membranes’ selectivity by performing zincate and hydroxide diffusion tests, showing a marked improvement in zincate-blocking (DZn (cm2/min): 0.17 ± 0.04 × 10–6 for 50-PSU, our most selective separator vs 2.0 ± 0.8 × 10–6 for Cellophane 350P00 and 5.7 ± 0.8 × 10–6 for Celgard 3501), while maintaining similar crossover rates for hydroxide (DOH (cm2/min): 9.4 ± 0.1 × 10–6 for 50-PSU vs 17 ± 0.5 × 10–6 formore »
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- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Urban Electric Power, Pearl River, NY (United States)
- City College of New York, NY (United States)
- Urban Electric Power, Pearl River, NY (United States); City College of New York, NY (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1827609
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-2021-12123J
Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244; 700555
- Grant/Contract Number:
- NA0003525
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 45; Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; zinc batteries; selective separators; functionalized polysulfone; zincate blocking; crossover; cycle life
Citation Formats
Kolesnichenko, Igor V., Arnot, David J., Lim, Matthew B., Yadav, Gautam G., Nyce, Michael, Huang, Jinchao, Banerjee, Sanjoy, and Lambert, Timothy N. Zincate-Blocking-Functionalized Polysulfone Separators for Secondary Zn–MnO2 Batteries. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsami.0c14143.
Kolesnichenko, Igor V., Arnot, David J., Lim, Matthew B., Yadav, Gautam G., Nyce, Michael, Huang, Jinchao, Banerjee, Sanjoy, & Lambert, Timothy N. Zincate-Blocking-Functionalized Polysulfone Separators for Secondary Zn–MnO2 Batteries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c14143
Kolesnichenko, Igor V., Arnot, David J., Lim, Matthew B., Yadav, Gautam G., Nyce, Michael, Huang, Jinchao, Banerjee, Sanjoy, and Lambert, Timothy N. Thu .
"Zincate-Blocking-Functionalized Polysulfone Separators for Secondary Zn–MnO2 Batteries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c14143. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1827609.
@article{osti_1827609,
title = {Zincate-Blocking-Functionalized Polysulfone Separators for Secondary Zn–MnO2 Batteries},
author = {Kolesnichenko, Igor V. and Arnot, David J. and Lim, Matthew B. and Yadav, Gautam G. and Nyce, Michael and Huang, Jinchao and Banerjee, Sanjoy and Lambert, Timothy N.},
abstractNote = {Alkaline zinc–manganese dioxide (Zn–MnO2) batteries are well suited for grid storage applications because of their inherently safe, aqueous electrolyte and established materials supply chain, resulting in low production costs. With recent advances in the development of Cu/Bi-stabilized birnessite cathodes capable of the full 2-electron capacity equivalent of MnO2 (617 mA h/g), there is a need for selective separators that prevent zincate (Zn(OH)4)2– transport from the anode to the cathode during cycling, as this electrode system fails in the presence of dissolved zinc. In this work, we present the synthesis of N-butylimidazolium-functionalized polysulfone (NBI-PSU)-based separators and evaluate their ability to selectively transport hydroxide over zincate. We then examine their impact on the cycling of high depth of discharge Zn/(Cu/Bi–MnO2) batteries when inserted in between the cathode and anode. Initially, we establish our membranes’ selectivity by performing zincate and hydroxide diffusion tests, showing a marked improvement in zincate-blocking (DZn (cm2/min): 0.17 ± 0.04 × 10–6 for 50-PSU, our most selective separator vs 2.0 ± 0.8 × 10–6 for Cellophane 350P00 and 5.7 ± 0.8 × 10–6 for Celgard 3501), while maintaining similar crossover rates for hydroxide (DOH (cm2/min): 9.4 ± 0.1 × 10–6 for 50-PSU vs 17 ± 0.5 × 10–6 for Cellophane 350P00 and 6.7 ± 0.6 × 10–6 for Celgard 3501). We then implement our membranes into cells and observe an improvement in cycle life over control cells containing only the commercial separators (cell lifetime extended from 21 to 79 cycles).},
doi = {10.1021/acsami.0c14143},
journal = {ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces},
number = 45,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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