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Vol. 12 (2020)

Dendritic Nanostructured Waste Copper Wires for High-Energy Alkaline Battery

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-019-0337-2
Nilesh R. Chodankar
chool of Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500‑757, South Korea
Su‑Hyeon Ji
chool of Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500‑757, South Korea
Young‑Kyu Han
Department of Energy and Materials Engineering, Dongguk University, Seoul 100‑715, Republic of Korea
Do‑Heyoung Kim
chool of Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 500‑757, South Korea

Corresponding Author: Do‑Heyoung Kim

kdhh@chonnam.ac.kr

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 12 (2020), Article Number: 1

Abstract

Rechargeable alkaline batteries (RABs) have received remarkable attention in the past decade for their high energy, low cost, safe operation, facile manufacture, and eco-friendly nature. To date, expensive electrode materials and current collectors were predominantly applied for RABs, which have limited their real-world efficacy. In the present work, we propose a scalable process to utilize electronic waste (e-waste) Cu wires as a cost-effective current collector for high-energy wire-type RABs. Initially, the vertically aligned CuO nanowires were prepared over the waste Cu wires via in situ alkaline corrosion. Then, both atomic-layer-deposited NiO and NiCo-hydroxide were applied to the CuO nanowires to form a uniform dendritic-structured NiCo-hydroxide/NiO/CuO/Cu electrode. When the prepared dendritic-structured electrode was applied to the RAB, it showed excellent electrochemical features, namely high-energy-density (82.42 Wh kg−1), excellent specific capacity (219 mAh g−1), and long-term cycling stability (94% capacity retention over 5000 cycles). The presented approach and material meet the requirements of a cost-effective, abundant, and highly efficient electrode for advanced eco-friendly RABs. More importantly, the present method provides an efficient path to recycle e-waste for value-added energy storage applications.


Highlights
1 Electronic waste Cu wires were successfully used as a cost-effective current collector for high-energy wire-type rechargeable alkaline batteries.
2 The scalable approach was applied to reduce, reuse, and recycle electronic waste.
3 A developed wire-type rechargeable alkaline battery exhibited a high-energy-density of 82.42 Wh kg−1 with long-term cycling stability.

Keywords

Alkaline batteries Dendritic nanostructure NiCo-hydroxide Waste Cu wires
Chodankar, Nilesh R., Su‑Hyeon Ji, Young‑Kyu Han, and Do‑Heyoung Kim. 2019. “Dendritic Nanostructured Waste Copper Wires for High-Energy Alkaline Battery”. Nano-Micro Letters 12 (December):1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-019-0337-2.
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