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Fast Charge New Discovery - Layered Crystal Tungsten Oxide Hydrate

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Update time : 2019-07-02 16:35:03
Extending battery life has become a key breakthrough in battery research, but how to store and transfer battery energy more quickly? This is what the researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) want to solve. They produced a material, layered crystalline tungsten oxide hydrate, which uses a thin layer of water to adjust the charge transfer rate.
 
The study was published in the recent issue of Chemistry of Materials. According to previous research, crystalline tungsten oxide is a kind of battery material with large capacity storage energy, but there is not much bright spot for energy storage speed. The researchers compared the two high-density battery materials: crystalline tungsten oxide and layered crystalline tungsten oxide hydrate. The layered crystalline tungsten oxide hydrate is composed of a crystalline tungsten oxide layer separated by an aqueous layer of an atomic layer. When charging the two materials for 10 minutes, the researchers found that normal tungsten oxide stores more energy than hydrates; but when charged for 12 seconds, hydrates store more energy than crystalline tungsten oxide. At the same time, the researchers also said that hydrates store energy faster, while also reducing waste heat.
 
NCSU expects a layered crystalline tungsten oxide hydrate battery to accelerate electric vehicles faster. However, this technology is not perfect at this stage. After about 10 minutes of charging, the normal tungsten oxide has actually stored more power. Even so, the technology has its place to be, and automakers can put more choices into nonlinear acceleration, so it is not a problem to fully realize zero emissions in the future.
 
In addition, the Zhao Zhigang Group of the Suzhou Institute of Nanotechnology and the Qi Fengxia Group of the University of Suzhou jointly developed a new type of tungsten oxide quantum dot electrode material with ultra-fast electrochemical response. The results were published in the recently published international journal Advanced Materials.
 
Emerging energy conversion and storage devices such as lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, and fuel cells have shown great potential in solving the problems of traditional energy shortage and unstable energy sources of renewable energy, and have attracted extensive attention from academia and industry. The realization of fast and efficient electron and ion transport processes in electrode materials is the goal pursued by people and the core technical issue to improve the performance of related devices.
 
Compared to traditional bulk materials, the small size, large specific surface area, and high surface atomic ratio of quantum dots (zero-dimensional nanomaterials) mean that the material has sufficient contact with the electrolyte and a shorter ion diffusion distance, which is ideal. Electrode material. However, the results of applying quantum dots to electrochemistry are mostly unsatisfactory, which is closely related to the poor electrochemical activity of common quantum dot materials, surface organic ligand coating and high interfacial resistance between particles.
 
Zhao Zhigang's research group and Yan Fengxia's research group have conducted research on this issue, and made breakthroughs in the research on preparation of tungsten oxide quantum dots and their electrochemical applications. They use a tungsten-based metal organic complex as a precursor, a single fatty amine as a reactant and a solvent, and obtain a uniform size, can be monodispersed in an organic solvent nanocrystal, and observe a strong quantum size effect, and solve the tungsten oxide quantum. The point is difficult to obtain and must be solved by the lattice template (silica gel, molecular sieve).
 
The researchers further demonstrated the electrochemical performance of quantum dots in charge and discharge and electrochromic testing over non-zero-dimensional tungsten oxide and other inorganic electrochromic materials through simple ligand exchange. The future is expected to greatly expand the application of quantum dot materials in the field of ultra-fast response electrochemical devices.
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