Towards More Sustainable Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Batteries

Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) are considered as the promising candidates for large-scale energy storage because of their high safety, low cost and environmental benignity. The large-scale applications of AZIBs will inevitably result in a large amount of spent AZIBs, which not only induce the waste of resources, but also pose environmental risks. Therefore, sustainable AZIBs have to be considered to minimize the risk of environmental pollution and maximize the utilization of spent compounds. Herein, this minireview focuses on the sustainability of AZIBs from material design and recycling techniques. The structure and degradation mechanism of AZIBs are discussed to guide the recycling design of the…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 2019YFA0705601, 51972231, 92372120, 92372120, 22109076, 51972231, 22109076
• MO
  Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China

  Award: 2019YFA0705601