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A New Free-Standing Aqueous Zinc-Ion Capacitor Based on MnO2–CNTs Cathode and MXene Anode

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-019-0301-1
Siliang Wang
Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing, Ministry of Education, Anhui University, No. 3 Feixi Road, Hefei 230039, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China
Qiang Wang
Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing, Ministry of Education, Anhui University, No. 3 Feixi Road, Hefei 230039, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China
Wei Zeng
Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing, Ministry of Education, Anhui University, No. 3 Feixi Road, Hefei 230039, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China
Min Wang
Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing, Ministry of Education, Anhui University, No. 3 Feixi Road, Hefei 230039, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China
Limin Ruan
Key Laboratory of Intelligent Computing and Signal Processing, Ministry of Education, Anhui University, No. 3 Feixi Road, Hefei 230039, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China
Yanan Ma
School of Sciences, Hubei University of Automotive Technology, No. 167 Checheng West Road, Shiyan 442002, Hubei Province, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Yanan Ma

mayn@huat.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 11 (2019), Article Number: 70

Abstract

Restricted by their energy storage mechanism, current energy storage devices have certain drawbacks, such as low power density for batteries and low energy density for supercapacitors. Fortunately, the nearest ion capacitors, such as lithium-ion and sodium-ion capacitors containing battery-type and capacitor-type electrodes, may allow achieving both high energy and power densities. For the inspiration, a new zinc-ion capacitor (ZIC) has been designed and realized by assembling the free-standing manganese dioxide–carbon nanotubes (MnO2–CNTs) battery-type cathode and MXene (Ti3C2Tx) capacitor-type anode in an aqueous electrolyte. The ZIC can avoid the insecurity issues that frequently occurred in lithium-ion and sodium-ion capacitors in organic electrolytes. As expected, the ZIC in an aqueous liquid electrolyte exhibits excellent electrochemical performance (based on the total weight of cathode and anode), such as a high specific capacitance of 115.1 F g−1 (1 mV s−1), high energy density of 98.6 Wh kg−1 (77.5 W kg−1), high power density of 2480.6 W kg−1 (29.7 Wh kg−1), and high capacitance retention of ~ 83.6% of its initial capacitance (15,000 cycles). Even in an aqueous gel electrolyte, the ZIC also exhibits excellent performance. This work provides an essential strategy for designing next-generation high-performance energy storage devices.


Highlights:


1 A new zinc-ion capacitor (ZIC) was realized by assembling the free-standing manganese dioxide–carbon nanotubes (MnO2–CNTs) battery-type cathode and MXene (Ti3C2Tx) capacitor-type anode in an aqueous electrolyte.
2 The large specific capacitance of the MXene anode avoids the mismatch in capacitance between the cathode and anode of the ZIC.
3 The superior performance of the proposed ZIC makes it a promising candidate for the next-generation energy storage devices.

Keywords

Energy storage Zinc-ion capacitor Battery-type and capacitor-type electrodes MXene Electrochemical performance
Wang, Siliang, Qiang Wang, Wei Zeng, Min Wang, Limin Ruan, and Yanan Ma. 2019. “A New Free-Standing Aqueous Zinc-Ion Capacitor Based on MnO2–CNTs Cathode and MXene Anode”. Nano-Micro Letters 11 (August):70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-019-0301-1.
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