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Article: Solid-state Al-air battery with an ethanol gel electrolyte
Title | Solid-state Al-air battery with an ethanol gel electrolyte |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Al corrosion Al-air battery Ethanol gel Gel electrolyte Polyethylene oxide |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Elsevier B.V. |
Citation | Green Energy & Environment, 2021, p. 11pp How to Cite? |
Abstract | Hydrogel electrolyte is especially suitable for solid-state Al-air batteries targeted for various portable applications, which may, however, lead to continuous Al corrosion during battery standby. To tackle this issue, an ethanol gel electrolyte is developed for Al-air battery for the first time in this work, by using KOH as solute and polyethylene oxide as gelling agent. The ethanol gel is found to effectively inhibit Al corrosion compared with the water gel counterpart, leading to stable Al storage. When assembled into an Al-air battery, the ethanol gel electrolyte achieves a much improved discharge lifetime and specific capacity, which are 5.3 and 4.1 times of the water gel electrolyte at 0.1 mA cm−2, respectively. By studying the gel properties, it is found that a lower ethanol purity can improve the battery power output, but at the price of decreased discharge efficiency. On the contrary, a higher polymer concentration will decrease the power output, but can bring extra benefit to the discharge efficiency. As for the gel thickness, a moderate value of 1 mm is preferred to balance the power output and energy efficiency. Finally, to cater the increasing market of flexible electronics, a flexible Al-air battery is developed by impregnating the ethanol gel into a paper substrate, which can function normally even under serious deformation or damage. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/314807 |
ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 12.781 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.899 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Wang, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Pan, W | - |
dc.contributor.author | LEONG, KW | - |
dc.contributor.author | LUO, S | - |
dc.contributor.author | ZHAO, X | - |
dc.contributor.author | Leung, YCD | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-05T09:34:56Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-05T09:34:56Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Green Energy & Environment, 2021, p. 11pp | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 2096-2797 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/314807 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Hydrogel electrolyte is especially suitable for solid-state Al-air batteries targeted for various portable applications, which may, however, lead to continuous Al corrosion during battery standby. To tackle this issue, an ethanol gel electrolyte is developed for Al-air battery for the first time in this work, by using KOH as solute and polyethylene oxide as gelling agent. The ethanol gel is found to effectively inhibit Al corrosion compared with the water gel counterpart, leading to stable Al storage. When assembled into an Al-air battery, the ethanol gel electrolyte achieves a much improved discharge lifetime and specific capacity, which are 5.3 and 4.1 times of the water gel electrolyte at 0.1 mA cm−2, respectively. By studying the gel properties, it is found that a lower ethanol purity can improve the battery power output, but at the price of decreased discharge efficiency. On the contrary, a higher polymer concentration will decrease the power output, but can bring extra benefit to the discharge efficiency. As for the gel thickness, a moderate value of 1 mm is preferred to balance the power output and energy efficiency. Finally, to cater the increasing market of flexible electronics, a flexible Al-air battery is developed by impregnating the ethanol gel into a paper substrate, which can function normally even under serious deformation or damage. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Elsevier B.V. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Green Energy & Environment | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Al corrosion | - |
dc.subject | Al-air battery | - |
dc.subject | Ethanol gel | - |
dc.subject | Gel electrolyte | - |
dc.subject | Polyethylene oxide | - |
dc.title | Solid-state Al-air battery with an ethanol gel electrolyte | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Pan, W: wdpan21@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Leung, YCD: ycleung@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Leung, YCD=rp00149 | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.gee.2021.05.011 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85107453318 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 335280 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 11pp | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 11pp | - |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | - |