Tianda develops low-cost and high-performance electrolyte to solve key problems in the industrialization of zinc batteries

Recently, the Advanced Carbon and Nano Energy Laboratory of the School of Chemical Engineering of Tianjin University, the Advanced Energy Materials Team of the Shenzhen International Graduate School of Tsinghua University and the Advanced Carbon Materials Research Department of the Institute of Metals of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a low-cost compatible with zinc metal.

Rechargeable water-based zinc batteries show broad application prospects in the field of large-scale energy storage due to the advantages of high safety, rich resources, low cost, and environmental friendliness

The project team developed a new electrolyte composed of hydrated zinc tetrafluoroborate and glycol solvent

The electrolyte solves the problems of dendrites and corrosion of the metal zinc anode in the aqueous electrolyte, and at the same time cleverly overcomes the bottleneck of the traditional organic electrolyte that is difficult to balance the cost and safety of the traditional organic electrolyte.

The research result "Non-flammable aqueous organic electrolyte for sustainable zinc batteries" was published online in "Nature-Sustainability"