Citation: Fengjun Deng, Tingyu Zhao, Xiaochen Zhang, Kaiyong Feng, Ze Liu, Youlin Xiang, Yingjian Yu. Reduced graphene oxide assembled on the Si nanowire anode enabling low passivation and hydrogen evolution for long-life aqueous Si-air batteries[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2025, 36(6): 109897. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2024.109897 shu

Reduced graphene oxide assembled on the Si nanowire anode enabling low passivation and hydrogen evolution for long-life aqueous Si-air batteries

College of Physics Science and Technology, Kunming University, Kunming 650214, China

yuyingjiankmu@163.com

Received Date: 15 January 2024
Revised Date: 12 February 2024
Accepted Date: 16 April 2024
Available Online: 16 April 2024

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Silicon-air batteries (SABs), a new type of semiconductor air battery, have a high energy density. However, some side reactions in SABs cause Si anodes to be covered by a passivation layer to prevent continuous discharge, and the anode utilization rate is low. In this work, reduced graphene oxide (RGO) fabricated via high-temperature annealing or L-ascorbic acid (L.AA) reduction was first used to obtain Si nanowires/RGO-1000 (Si NWs/RGO-1000) and Si nanowires/RGO-L.AA (Si NWs/RGO-L.AA) composite anodes for SABs. It was found that RGO suppressed the passivation and self-corrosion reactions and that SABs using Si NWs/RGO-L.AA as the anode can discharge for more than 700 h, breaking the previous performance of SABs, and that the specific capacity was increased by 90.8% compared to bare Si. This work provides a new solution for the design of high specific capacity SABs with nanostructures and anode protective layers.
- Si-air batteries,
- Reduced graphene oxide,
- Si NWs,
- Passivation,
- Corrosion
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