All-Electrochemical Nanofabrication of Stacked Ternary Metal Sulfide/Graphene Electrodes for High-Performance Alkaline Batteries
Journal article, 2022
Energy-storage materials can be assembled directly on the electrodes of a battery using electrochemical methods, this allowing sequential deposition, high structural control, and low cost. Here, a two-step approach combining electrophoretic deposition (EPD) and cathodic electrodeposition (CED) is demonstrated to fabricate multilayer hierarchical electrodes of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and mixed transition metal sulfides (NiCoMnSx). The process is performed directly on conductive electrodes applying a small electric bias to electro-deposit rGO and NiCoMnSx in alternated cycles, yielding an ideal porous network and a continuous path for transport of ions and electrons. A fully rechargeable alkaline battery (RAB) assembled with such electrodes gives maximum energy density of 97.2 Wh kg−1 and maximum power density of 3.1 kW kg−1, calculated on the total mass of active materials, and outstanding cycling stability (retention 72% after 7000 charge/discharge cycles at 10 A g−1). When the total electrode mass of the cell is considered, the authors achieve an unprecedented gravimetric energy density of 68.5 Wh kg−1, sevenfold higher than that of typical commercial supercapacitors, higher than that of Ni/Cd or lead–acid Batteries and similar to Ni–MH Batteries. The approach can be used to assemble multilayer composite structures on arbitrary electrode shapes.
Author
Jaime Sanchez Sanchez
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Materials and manufacture
IMDEA Energy Institute
Zhenyuan Xia
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Materials and manufacture
National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
Nagaraj Patil
IMDEA Energy Institute
Rebecca Grieco
IMDEA Energy Institute
Jinhua Sun
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Materials and manufacture
Uta Klement
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Materials and manufacture
Ren Qiu
Chalmers, Physics, Microstructure Physics
Meganne Christian
National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
Fabiola Liscio
National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
Vittorio Morandi
National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
Rebeca Marcilla
IMDEA Energy Institute
Vincenzo Palermo
Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Materials and manufacture
National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
Small
1613-6810 (ISSN) 1613-6829 (eISSN)
Vol. 18Graphene cOmposites FOR advanced drinking WATER treatment
VINNOVA (2019-05353), 2019-12-02 -- 2022-12-31.
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Materials Engineering
Chemical Sciences
Areas of Advance
Energy
Materials Science
Roots
Basic sciences
DOI
10.1002/smll.202106403