Stabilized Molybdenum Trioxide Nanowires as Novel Ultrahigh‐Capacity Cathode for Rechargeable Zinc Ion Battery

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Abstract

Exploration of high-performance cathode materials for rechargeable aqueous Zn ion batteries (ZIBs) is highly desirable. The potential of molybdenum trioxide (MoO₃) in other electrochemical energy storage devices has been revealed but held understudied in ZIBs. Herein, a demonstration of orthorhombic MoO₃ as an ultrahigh-capacity cathode material in ZIBs is presented. The energy storage mechanism of the MoO₃ nanowires based on Zn2+ intercalation/deintercalation and its electrochemical instability mechanism are particularly investigated and elucidated. The severe capacity decay of the MoO₃ nanowires during charging/discharging cycles arises from the dissolution and the structural collapse of MoO₃ in aqueous electrolyte. To this end, an effective strategy to stabilize MoO₃ nanowires by using a quasi-solid-state poly(vinyl alcohol)(PVA)/ZnCl₂ gel electrolyte to replace the aqueous electrolyte is developed. The capacity retention of the assembled ZIBs after 400 charge/discharge cycles at 6.0 A g-1 is significantly boosted, from 27.1% (in aqueous electrolyte) to 70.4% (in gel electrolyte). More remarkably, the stabilized quasi-solid-state ZIBs achieve an attracting areal capacity of 2.65 mAh cm-2 and a gravimetric capacity of 241.3 mAh g-1 at 0.4 A g-1, outperforming most of recently reported ZIBs.

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