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Enabling High Energy Density Aluminum Anodes For Alkaline Batteries, Xinyi Zhao
Enabling High Energy Density Aluminum Anodes For Alkaline Batteries, Xinyi Zhao
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Zn-MnO2 primary alkaline batteries stood out immediately among all batteries after it was introduced in the late 1980s and has attracted world-wide attention. These batteries have dominated the portable power market for decades as a highly effective energy storage system with high energy density, long life and low self-discharge, dependable safety and other superiorities.
In order to achieve higher cell-level energy density, Aluminum has long been considered a very attractive anode material for alkaline batteries because of its high theoretical capacity (2980 mAh/g; 2.60 Ah/cm3) and low price. However, some early efforts to utilize aluminum anodes did …