Negatively charged insulated boron nitride nanofibers directing subsurface zinc deposition for dendrite-free zinc anodes

作     者：Qianqian Song Jianli Liang Si Liu Yunting Zhang Jian Zhu Changbao Zhu Qianqian Song;Jianli Liang;Si Liu;Yunting Zhang;Jian Zhu;Changbao Zhu

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and TechnologiesDepartment of Materials Science and EngineeringKey Laboratory for Polymeric Composite and Functional Materials of Ministry of EducationGuangzhou Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronic Materials and Wearable DevicesSun Yat-Sen UniversityGuangzhou 510275China Department of Chemistry&Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films(COSDAF)City University of Hong KongHong Kong 999077China 

出 版 物：《Nano Research》 (纳米研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2023年第16卷第1期

页      面：403-410页

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学科分类：0808[工学-电气工程] 0809[工学-电子科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0702[理学-物理学] 

基　　金：This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.22075331) the National Thousand Youth Talents Project of the Chinese Government. 

主　　题：boron nitride nanofiber dendrite-free Zn anodes Zn ion battery artificial interface layer negatively charged 

摘      要：The practical application of aqueous zinc-ion batteries(ZIBs)is limited by the growth of dendrite during cycling.How to rationally design and construct an efficient artificial interface layer by selecting suitable building units to control the dendrite growth is still a challenge.Herein,a porous boron nitride nanofibers(BNNFs)artificial interface layer was constructed,and its working mechanisms were revealed by both experiments(electrochemical characterization and in-situ optical microscope)and theoretical calculations(density functional theory(DFT)and finite element simulation).The insulated BNNFs layer leads to position-selected electroplating between BNNFs layer and Zn foil.The unique negatively charged surface and porosity of BNNFs contribute to the self-concentrating and pumping features of Zn ions,thus suppressing the concentration polarization on the Zn surface.Additionally,densely arranged porous BNNFs have a shunt effect on Zn ions diffusion,resulting in uniform distributions of Zn ions and electric field.The introduced BNNFs layer not only makes Zn deposition uniform but also restrains the dendrite growth,therefore the Zn+BNNFs symmetric cells perform ultralong stable cycling for 1,600 h at 1 mA·cm–2 and more than 500 h at 10 mA·cm–2.Moreover,Zn+BNNFs||CNT/MnO2 battery presents a high initial capacity of 293.6 mAh·g–1 and an excellent retention rate of 97.6%at 1 A·g–1 after 400 cycles,while Zn||CNT/MnO2 battery only maintains 37.1%discharge capacity.This artificial interface layer with negatively charged BNNFs exhibits excellent dendrite-inhibit and may have enormous prospects in other metal batteries.