Aqueous zinc-ion batteries(AZIBs),known for their high safety,low cost,and environmental friendliness,have a wide range of potential applications in large-scale energy storage systems.However,the notorious dendrite gr...Aqueous zinc-ion batteries(AZIBs),known for their high safety,low cost,and environmental friendliness,have a wide range of potential applications in large-scale energy storage systems.However,the notorious dendrite growth and severe side reactions on the anode have significantly hindered their further practical development.Recent studies have shown that the solvation chemistry in the electrolyte is not only closely related to the barriers to the commercialization of AZIBs,but have also sparked a number of valuable ideas to address the challenges of AZIBs.Therefore,we systematically summarize and discuss the regulatory mechanisms of solvation chemistry in various types of electrolytes and the influence of the solvation environment on battery performance.The challenges and future directions for solvation strategies based on the electrolyte environment are proposed to improve their performance and expand their application in AZIBs.展开更多
Abnormal grain growth(AGG)easily takes place in Mg alloys during high-temperature solutions,result-ing in deterioration of mechanical properties.Hence,the compression prior to solution(pre-compression)was conducted to...Abnormal grain growth(AGG)easily takes place in Mg alloys during high-temperature solutions,result-ing in deterioration of mechanical properties.Hence,the compression prior to solution(pre-compression)was conducted to suppress AGG,and the microstructure evolution as well as suppressing mechanisms was investigated based on quasi-in-situ analysis.After compression along the transverse direction,<11-20>//ED grains preferentially nucleated and rapidly grew up,and the initial<10-10>//ED texture was weakened.Two grain growth modes of heat-induced and strain-induced grain boundary migrations were found.The former was attributed to the high interfacial energy of grain boundaries with large curvature.The latter consumed the adjacent grains with high storage energy,forming abnormal grains with irregular shapes.The compression with a reduction>6%could obviously suppress AGG.The suppressing effects were mainly attributed to weakening the size advantage of<11-20>//ED grains,increasing nucleation,reducing grain boundary character distribution,and redistributing storage energy distribution.After 12%compression along the transverse direction,30°misorientation of<11-20>//ED grains and high energy grain boundaries were reduced.The{10-12}tensile twins and{10-15}high index twins induced by com-pression increased the nucleation of static recrystallization.Beside,compression introduces high-density dislocations,which also contributed to suppressing AGG behavior during solution.展开更多
基金supported by grants from the Major Basic Research Projects of Shandong Natural Science Foundation(ZR2020ZD07)the Key Scientific and Technological Innovation Project of Shandong(2020CXGC010401).
文摘Aqueous zinc-ion batteries(AZIBs),known for their high safety,low cost,and environmental friendliness,have a wide range of potential applications in large-scale energy storage systems.However,the notorious dendrite growth and severe side reactions on the anode have significantly hindered their further practical development.Recent studies have shown that the solvation chemistry in the electrolyte is not only closely related to the barriers to the commercialization of AZIBs,but have also sparked a number of valuable ideas to address the challenges of AZIBs.Therefore,we systematically summarize and discuss the regulatory mechanisms of solvation chemistry in various types of electrolytes and the influence of the solvation environment on battery performance.The challenges and future directions for solvation strategies based on the electrolyte environment are proposed to improve their performance and expand their application in AZIBs.
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51875317,52222510)the Key Research and Development Program of Shandong Province(No.2021ZLGX01).
文摘Abnormal grain growth(AGG)easily takes place in Mg alloys during high-temperature solutions,result-ing in deterioration of mechanical properties.Hence,the compression prior to solution(pre-compression)was conducted to suppress AGG,and the microstructure evolution as well as suppressing mechanisms was investigated based on quasi-in-situ analysis.After compression along the transverse direction,<11-20>//ED grains preferentially nucleated and rapidly grew up,and the initial<10-10>//ED texture was weakened.Two grain growth modes of heat-induced and strain-induced grain boundary migrations were found.The former was attributed to the high interfacial energy of grain boundaries with large curvature.The latter consumed the adjacent grains with high storage energy,forming abnormal grains with irregular shapes.The compression with a reduction>6%could obviously suppress AGG.The suppressing effects were mainly attributed to weakening the size advantage of<11-20>//ED grains,increasing nucleation,reducing grain boundary character distribution,and redistributing storage energy distribution.After 12%compression along the transverse direction,30°misorientation of<11-20>//ED grains and high energy grain boundaries were reduced.The{10-12}tensile twins and{10-15}high index twins induced by com-pression increased the nucleation of static recrystallization.Beside,compression introduces high-density dislocations,which also contributed to suppressing AGG behavior during solution.