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Vol. 15 (2023)

Fast and Stable Zinc Anode-Based Electrochromic Displays Enabled by Bimetallically Doped Vanadate and Aqueous Zn2+/Na+ Hybrid Electrolytes

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01209-z
Zhaoyang Song
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, People’s Republic of China
Bin Wang
Optics and Thermal Radiation Research Center, Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, People’s Republic of China
Wu Zhang
Ultrafast Optics and Nanophotonics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2V4, Canada
Qianqian Zhu
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, People’s Republic of China
Abdulhakem Y. Elezzabi
Ultrafast Optics and Nanophotonics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2V4, Canada
Linhua Liu
Optics and Thermal Radiation Research Center, Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, People’s Republic of China
William W. Yu
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People’s Republic of China
Haizeng Li
Optics and Thermal Radiation Research Center, Institute of Frontier and Interdisciplinary Science, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Haizeng Li

haizeng@sdu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 15 (2023), Article Number: 229

Abstract

Vanadates are a class of the most promising electrochromic materials for displays as their multicolor characteristics. However, the slow switching times and vanadate dissolution issues of recently reported vanadates significantly hinder their diverse practical applications. Herein, novel strategies are developed to design electrochemically stable vanadates having rapid switching times. We show that the interlayer spacing is greatly broadened by introducing sodium and lanthanum ions into V3O8 interlayers, which facilitates the transportation of cations and enhances the electrochemical kinetics. In addition, a hybrid Zn2+/Na+ electrolyte is designed to inhibit vanadate dissolution while significantly accelerating electrochemical kinetics. As a result, our electrochromic displays yield the most rapid switching times in comparison with any reported Zn-vanadate electrochromic displays. It is envisioned that stable vanadate-based electrochromic displays having video speed switching are appearing on the near horizon.


Highlights:
1 La3+/Na+ bimetallically doped vanadate, designed for the first time, is promising in many electrochemical applications (e.g., batteries, electrochromics).
2 This is the first report of electrochromic displays employing bimetallically doped vanadate.
3 It is demonstrated for the first time that zinc dendrites and vanadate dissolution are significantly inhibited by employing an aqueous hybrid Zn2+/Na+ electrolyte.

Keywords

Vanadates Hybrid electrolytes Displays Electrochromic
Song, Zhaoyang, Bin Wang, Wu Zhang, Qianqian Zhu, Abdulhakem Y. Elezzabi, Linhua Liu, William W. Yu, and Haizeng Li. 2023. “Fast and Stable Zinc Anode-Based Electrochromic Displays Enabled by Bimetallically Doped Vanadate and Aqueous Zn2+/Na+ Hybrid Electrolytes”. Nano-Micro Letters 15 (October):229. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-023-01209-z.
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