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Bipolar electrode architecture enables high-energy aqueous rechargeable sodium ion battery

Zhiguo Hou1( ), Wutao Mao2, Zixiang Zhang2, Jiawu Chen2, Huaisheng Ao1, Yitai Qian1( )
School of Chemistry and Materials, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou 213001, China
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A novel bipolar electrode structure aqueous sodium ion battery was designed with high energy density(86 Wh·kg−1) and long life of 4,000 cycles.

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Aqueous rechargeable sodium ion batteries (ARSIBs), with intrinsic safety, low cost, and greenness, are attracting more and more attentions for large scale energy storage application. However, the low energy density hampers their practical application. Here, a battery architecture designed by bipolar electrode with graphite/amorphous carbon film as current collector shows high energy density and excellent rate-capability. The bipolar electrode architecture is designed to not only improve energy density of practical battery by minimizing inactive ingredient, such as tabs and cases, but also guarantee high rate-capability through a short electron transport distance in the through-plane direction instead of in-plane direction for traditional cell architecture. As a proof of concept, a prototype pouch cell of 8 V based on six Na2MnFe(CN)6||NaTi2(PO4)3 bipolar electrodes stacking using a “water-in-polymer” gel electrolyte is demonstrated to cycle up to 4,000 times, with a high energy density of 86 Wh·kg−1 based on total mass of both cathode and anode. This result opens a new avenue to develop advance high-energy ARSIBs for grid-scale energy storage applications.

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aqueous rechargeable sodium ion batterybipolar electrodecurrent collectorwater-in-polymer electrolyte

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Nano Research
Volume 15 Issue 6,
June 2022
Pages 5072-5080
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-4113-0
Cite this article:
Hou Z, Mao W, Zhang Z, et al. Bipolar electrode architecture enables high-energy aqueous rechargeable sodium ion battery. Nano Research, 2022, 15(6): 5072-5080. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4113-0
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Received: 02 December 2021
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Published: 06 March 2022
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