2D Tungsten Borides Induced Interfacial Modulation Engineering Toward High-Rate Performance Zinc-Iodine Battery.
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Aqueous zinc-iodine batteries are promising candidates for large-scale energy storage due to their high energy density and low cost. However, their development is hindered by several drawbacks, including zinc dendrites, anode corrosion, and the shuttle of polyiodides. Here, the design of 2D-shaped tungsten boride nanosheets with abundant borophene subunits-based active sites is reported to guide the (002) plane-dominated deposition of zinc while suppressing side reactions, which facilitates interfacial nucleation and uniform growth of zinc. Meanwhile, the interfacial d-band orbits of tungsten sites can further enhance the anchoring of polyiodides on the surface, to promote the electrocatalytic redox conversion of iodine. The resulting tungsten boride-based I2 cathodes in zinc-iodine cells exhibit impressive cyclic stability after 5000 cycles at 50 C, which accelerates the practical applications of zinc-iodine batteries.
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