Influence of small amount of Mg incorporated into hexagonal ZnO crystal on cell performance in membrane free Zinc.Nickel redox battery

Younghwan Im; Junyeong Kim; Kyoung Soo Park; Tae Woo Cho; Jaehwan Jeon; Kwang-il Chung; Koichi Eguchi; Misook Kang

Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol.64, 318-327, August, 2018

DOI10.1016/j.jiec.2018.03.032 Export Citation

Influence of small amount of Mg incorporated into hexagonal ZnO crystal on cell performance in membrane free Zinc.Nickel redox battery

Younghwan Im^{1, 2}, Junyeong Kim¹, Kyoung Soo Park³, Tae Woo Cho³, Jaehwan Jeon³, Kwang-il Chung³, Koichi Eguchi^{2, †}, and Misook Kang^{1, †}

¹Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk 38541, Republic of Korea
²Department of Energy and Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
³Research & Development Center, Vitzrocell,, Yesan-gun, Chungnam 23535, Republic of Korea

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This study focused on improving the cell efficiency of Zinc.Nickel redox battery. The cycle life of zinc anodic material in KOH alkaline electrolyte was enhanced by small amount of Mg insertion into ZnO framework through a typical hydrothermal method. The as-prepared ZnO and MgxZn1-xO (x = 0.001, 0.0025, and 0.005) anodic materials before and after charging/discharging test were characterized by Xray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and energy dispersive spectrometer (EDX) to investigate the effect of inserted Mg ions on the zinc dendrite growth. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) were utilized to examine the electrochemical performances of Mg-inserted ZnO as anodic material. The Mg-inserted ZnO.Ni membrane free redox batteries possess higher discharge voltage, higher cycle stability, lower corrosion current, and smaller charge-transfer resistance in comparison with bare ZnO. In addition, the redox cell efficiency was 85% in the ZnO anodic material inserted Mg of 0.0025 mol even after 100 cycles.

Keywords:MgxZn1-xO;Mg-insertion;Zinc.Nickel redox batteries;Cycle stability;Charge-transfer resistance

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