Zinc-oligoether carboxylate salts as electrolyte additives for aqueous Zn metal batteries
John Brown, Ivette Aguilar, Juan Forero-Saboya, Chhail Bihari Soni, Hugo Chotard, Yuhuan Wang, Everett Zuras, Jean-Marc Noël, Jean-Marie Tarascon, Alexis Grimaud · 2025
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Description
John Brown and nine co-authors design salt additives that help water-based zinc batteries last in a 2025 study. Zinc is cheap and plentiful, and a water electrolyte is safe, but plating zinc grows spiky dendrites and splits water, which kills cells young. A sturdy skin on the zinc is the fix.
Their salts carry two tools in one molecule: a head that seeds a sulfur-based skin, and a chain tail that pushes water back from the surface. The longest tail stretched test cells from 200 to 1,000 hours of cycling. Chain length thus becomes a tuning knob for battery life.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | John Brown, Ivette Aguilar, Juan Forero-Saboya, Chhail Bihari Soni, Hugo Chotard, Yuhuan Wang, Everett Zuras, Jean-Marc Noël, Jean-Marie Tarascon, Alexis Grimaud |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |