CN117317414A - Low-cost electrolyte additive, electrolyte and zinc battery - Google Patents

Low-cost electrolyte additive, electrolyte and zinc battery Download PDF

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CN117317414A
CN117317414A CN202311496221.8A CN202311496221A CN117317414A CN 117317414 A CN117317414 A CN 117317414A CN 202311496221 A CN202311496221 A CN 202311496221A CN 117317414 A CN117317414 A CN 117317414A
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Abstract

The invention discloses a low-cost electrolyte additive, an electrolyte and a zinc battery. The electrolyte additive contains both amino and sulfonic acid functional groups, with the amino and sulfonic acid groups being directly linked, such as sodium cyclamate. The additive can be adsorbed on the surface of a zinc anode to induce uniform deposition of zinc ions, has high binding force with the zinc ions, can reconstruct a solvation structure of the zinc ions, effectively inhibits growth of zinc dendrites and generation of byproducts, and realizes highly-smooth zinc deposition and ultra-long cycle life. The additive disclosed by the invention has the advantages of low molecular cost and extremely small addition amount, and the electrolyte is easy to prepare, so that the low-cost and high-performance development of the zinc battery can be assisted.

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Low-cost electrolyte additive, electrolyte and zinc battery
Technical Field
The invention belongs to the technical field of battery electrolyte, and particularly relates to a low-cost electrolyte additive, electrolyte and a zinc battery.
Background
The large-scale use of secondary energy has greatly alleviated human dependence on fossil energy since the 21 st century. The electric energy obtained by means of photovoltaic, wind power, water power and the like needs to be stored so as to dynamically balance peak electricity consumption and trough electricity consumption. Lithium Ion Batteries (LIBs) are considered promising energy storage battery elements. However, the safety issues inherent to LIB and its limited crust reserves limit its use in large scale energy storage.
Aiming at the short plates and the defects of LIB, an aqueous zinc battery is generated. Zinc metal has higher theoretical volume capacity (5855 mAh cm) -3 ) Has low oxidation-reduction potential (-0.76V vs. standard hydrogen electrode) in water, is low in cost and environment-friendly, and has very rich content in crust, thus becoming a new star for the next generation of energy storage battery elements. However, zinc cells are commercially landed for a time and day subject to uncontrolled dendrite growth and corrosion side reactions. Uneven deposition of zinc causes dendrite growth that will damage the flat electrode surface, piercing the separator after several cycles causing a short circuit. Corrosion side reactions not only produce insulating basic zinc sulfate byproducts, but also cause the internal pressure of the battery to increase due to the hydrogen evolution process, and the battery bursts to fail.
In order to solve the two major problems of zinc batteries, researchers have made many efforts. Currently, the mainstream modification methods can be divided into two major categories, electrode engineering and electrolyte engineering. Electrode engineering aims at modifying a zinc anode per se, and the zinc anode is modified by constructing an in-situ protection layer, alloying, surface patterning and the like. The method has obvious effect, however, the manufacturing process is complex, and various pretreatment is needed. Electrolyte engineering is focused on adjusting the chemical properties of the electrolyte, and by changing the chemical environment of zinc ions, water molecules and even zinc cathodes, uniform zinc deposition is realized and side reactions are inhibited. The method has simple flow and low cost, and has great commercial application potential, thereby attracting more and more researchers' attention.
Additives can be divided into two broad categories, inorganic and organic. Some inorganic additives can participate in the reaction during the battery cycle, inhibit the local deposition of zinc by depositing at the tip of the zinc cathode surface, or form uniform zinc-philic sites to induce uniform deposition of zinc; some do not react directly with zinc and uniform deposition is achieved by inhibiting dendrite growth through adsorption at the dendrite tips. However, this method is not remarkable and is essentially incapable of corrosion side reactions. The organic additives can be further classified into macromolecular additives and small molecular additives, and the macromolecular additives are generally polymers, and zinc dendrites and side reactions are improved by selective adsorption on the surface of a zinc anode. However, macromolecular additives are generally difficult to participate in the zinc ion solvation process, and the adsorption layer formed on the surface of the anode tends to cause an increase in voltage polarization, so that the energy efficiency of the battery is reduced. In view of the above, the small molecular organic additive is expected to inhibit zinc dendrite and side reaction at the same time, and greatly prolongs the cycle performance of the zinc battery.
Disclosure of Invention
Aiming at the defects of the prior art, the invention provides a low-cost electrolyte additive, an electrolyte and a zinc battery, and solves the problems of serious dendrite growth and side reaction in the zinc battery with low cost, thereby obtaining the zinc battery with high performance.
The invention achieves the aim through the following technical scheme:
a low cost electrolyte additive for zinc cells, said additive comprising both amino functionality and sulfonic functionality directly linked.
An electrolyte additive of a zinc battery, wherein the additive is sodium cyclamate, the chemical name is sodium cyclohexylsulfamate, and the chemical formula is as follows: c (C) 6 H 11 -NH-SO 3 -Na。
The electrolyte formulation of the present invention includes a sodium cyclamate additive, an electrolyte salt, and a solvent.
Preferably, the concentration of the sodium cyclamate additive in the electrolyte is 0.1-10 g/L.
Preferably, the electrolyte salt is one or more of zinc sulfate, zinc trifluoromethane sulfonate, zinc chloride and zinc bromide.
Preferably, the concentration of the electrolyte salt is 1 to 3mol/L.
Further, the invention provides application of a low-cost electrolyte additive of a zinc battery, wherein the electrolyte is used for preparing the zinc battery, and the zinc battery further comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator.
Preferably, the positive electrode is vanadium-based oxide, manganese-based oxide, organic compound (such as polyaniline, etc.), prussian blue analog or activated carbon.
Preferably, the negative electrode is metallic zinc, carbon felt or graphite felt.
Advantages of the invention are embodied in the following:
the sodium cyclamate additive is simple to prepare, low in cost and easy to obtain, and the electrolyte prepared by using the sodium cyclamate additive is simple to prepare and high in repeatability.
The sodium cyclamate additive introduced by the invention contains sulfonic functional groups, has high affinity with zinc ions, and can change solvation sheaths of the zinc ions.
The sodium cyclamate additive introduced by the invention has high affinity with the zinc cathode, adsorption is generated on the surface of the zinc cathode by means of sulfonic groups, the adsorption process is enhanced by amino assistance, the wettability of the solution is increased, and the water content on the surface of the zinc cathode is reduced; and meanwhile, the zinc ion flux on the surface of the zinc cathode is regulated and controlled, and the uniform deposition of zinc is promoted.
The invention uses electrolyte containing different concentrations of sodium cyclamate additive as an example to illustrate the practical effect of sodium cyclamate additive.
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FIG. 1 (right) shows the electrolyte of example 1, and (left) shows the electrolyte of comparative example.
Fig. 2 is a scanning electron micrograph of the surface zinc deposition after cycling of a zinc symmetric cell prepared using the electrolyte described in example 1.
Fig. 3 is a scanning electron micrograph of the surface zinc deposition after cycling of a zinc symmetric cell prepared using the electrolyte described in the comparative example.
FIG. 4 is a graph of cycle life of a zinc symmetrical cell prepared using the electrolyte described in example 1;
FIG. 5 is a cycle life graph of a zinc symmetrical cell prepared using the electrolyte described in example 2;
FIG. 6 is a graph of cycle life of a zinc symmetrical cell prepared using the electrolyte described in example 3;
FIG. 7 is a cycle life graph of a zinc symmetrical cell prepared using the electrolyte described in the comparative example;
Detailed Description
The present invention will be further described with reference to the following examples, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.
The electrolyte additive disclosed by the invention contains amino functional groups and sulfonic functional groups which are directly connected, can be adsorbed on the surface of a zinc anode to induce uniform deposition of zinc ions, has high binding force with the zinc ions, can reconstruct a solvation structure of the zinc ions, effectively inhibits growth of zinc dendrites and generation of byproducts, and realizes highly-smooth zinc deposition and ultra-long cycle life. The additive molecule such as sodium cyclamate has low cost and little addition, and the electrolyte is easy to prepare, so that the additive molecule can assist the development of low cost and high performance of zinc batteries.
Example 1:
1) 0.05g sodium cyclamate and 0.2mol zinc sulfate are dissolved in 100mL deionized water, and then dispersed by ultrasonic for 15min to completely dissolve, thus obtaining 100mL electrolyte containing 2mol/L zinc sulfate and 0.5g/L sodium cyclamate. Fig. 1 (right) shows the electrolyte after completion of the preparation, and it can be seen that sodium cyclamate is completely dissolved in water, and the solution is colorless and transparent.
2) Commercial zinc foil (thickness 100 μm) was cleaned and cut into disks of 11.3mm diameter to produce zinc electrodes.
3) And placing the inner surface of the positive electrode shell upwards on a test bench, sequentially placing a zinc wafer, a diaphragm, a zinc wafer and a gasket, then dripping the electrolyte to completely wet the diaphragm, covering the negative electrode shell, and packaging to obtain the zinc symmetrical battery. The surface after the zinc electrode cycle was observed using a scanning electron microscope, and the results are shown in fig. 2. It can be seen that zinc deposited very densely on the electrode surface and zinc flakes were clearly visible. Circulation of zinc symmetrical batteryThe lifetime is shown in FIG. 4 at 1mAcm -2 And a current density of 1mAh cm -2 Is stable for more than 3300h.
Example 2:
1) 0.025g sodium cyclamate and 0.2mol zinc sulfate are dissolved in 100mL deionized water, and then dispersed by ultrasonic for 15min to completely dissolve, thus obtaining 100mL electrolyte containing 2mol/L zinc sulfate and 0.25g/L sodium cyclamate.
2) And placing the inner surface of the positive electrode shell upwards on a test bench, sequentially placing a zinc wafer, a diaphragm, a zinc wafer and a gasket, then dripping the electrolyte to completely wet the diaphragm, covering the negative electrode shell, and packaging to obtain the zinc symmetrical battery. The cycle life was tested as shown in figure 5. At 1mAcm -2 And a current density of 1mAh cm -2 The zinc symmetrical cell was cycled stably for over 2600h.
Example 3:
1) 0.1g of sodium cyclamate and 0.2mol of zinc sulfate are dissolved in 100mL of deionized water, and then are dispersed by ultrasonic for 15min to be completely dissolved, thus obtaining 100mL of electrolyte containing 2mol/L of zinc sulfate and 1g/L of sodium cyclamate.
2) And placing the inner surface of the positive electrode shell upwards on a test bench, sequentially placing a zinc wafer, a diaphragm, a zinc wafer and a gasket, then dripping the electrolyte to completely wet the diaphragm, covering the negative electrode shell, and packaging to obtain the zinc symmetrical battery. The cycle life was measured, as shown in FIG. 6, at 1mA cm -2 And a current density of 1mAh cm -2 The zinc symmetrical cell cycles over 1700h.
Comparative example:
1) 0.2mol of zinc sulfate is dissolved in 100mL of deionized water, and then ultrasonic dispersion is carried out for 15min to completely dissolve the zinc sulfate, thus obtaining 100mL of electrolyte containing 2mol/L of zinc sulfate. FIG. 1 (left)
To formulate the electrolyte, it can be seen as a colorless transparent solution.
2) Placing the inner surface of the positive electrode shell upwards on a test bench, sequentially placing a zinc wafer, a diaphragm, a zinc wafer and a gasket, dripping the electrolyte to completely wet the diaphragm, covering the negative electrode shell, and packaging to obtain the zinc pairReferred to as a battery. The surface after the zinc electrode cycle was observed using a scanning electron microscope, and the result is shown in fig. 3. The zinc electrode on the left in the figure is recessed indicating the creation of etch pits. The right zinc electrode is convex upward, which indicates that zinc is locally deposited to generate dendrites. The middle flaky zinc is disordered and is not beneficial to the service life of the zinc battery. The cycle life of the zinc symmetrical cell is shown in FIG. 7 at 1mA cm -2 And a current density of 1mAh cm -2 Short-circuiting occurs when the cycle is less than 120 hours.
From the comparison of examples 1-3 with the comparative examples shown in the figures, it can be found that dendrite growth and corrosion side reactions are suppressed after adding the sodium cyclamate additive, uniform zinc deposition is achieved, and the effectiveness of the sodium cyclamate additive for improving the performance of zinc cells is demonstrated.
In conclusion, the invention proposes to introduce sodium cyclamate as an additive into the zinc battery electrolyte, so that dendrite growth and corrosion side reaction are obviously inhibited. The method is simple to operate and high in repeatability; the raw materials of the additive are easy to obtain, and the cost is low. The zinc battery prepared by the electrolyte is highly reversible in cycle, greatly prolongs the service life, and forcefully promotes the commercial application process of the zinc battery.

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1. An electrolyte additive for a zinc cell, characterized by: the additive contains both amino functional groups and sulfonic acid functional groups, and the amino groups and sulfonic acid groups are directly connected.
2. The electrolyte additive for zinc cells according to claim 1, wherein the additive is sodium cyclamate, the chemical name of which is sodium cyclamate, and the chemical formula is:
C 6 H 11 -NH-SO 3 -Na。
3. an electrolyte for a zinc cell, wherein the electrolyte formulation comprises the additive of claim 1 or 2, an electrolyte salt, and a solvent.
4. The electrolyte for a zinc cell according to claim 3, wherein the concentration of the additive in the electrolyte is 0.1g/L or more.
5. The electrolyte of a zinc cell according to claim 3, wherein the electrolyte salt is one or more of zinc sulfate, zinc trifluoromethane sulfonate, zinc chloride, and zinc bromide.
6. An electrolyte for a zinc cell according to claim 3, wherein: the concentration of the electrolyte salt is 1-3 mol/L.
7. A zinc cell, characterized in that it contains the electrolyte according to any one of claims 3 to 6, and further comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator.
8. The zinc cell of claim 7, wherein the positive electrode is a vanadium-based oxide, a manganese-based oxide, an organic compound (e.g., polyaniline, etc.), a prussian blue analog, or activated carbon.
9. The zinc cell of claim 7, wherein the negative electrode is metallic zinc, carbon felt or graphite felt.
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