Research Progress and Prospect of Aqueous Zinc Ion Battery

Zinc ion battery, a new type of aqueous secondary batteries proposed in recent years, can deliver high energy and high power density. Meanwhile, safe and efficient discharge processes, cheap and nontoxic electrode materials, and easy fabrication are the advantage of Zinc ion battery, showing great practical value and developmental prospects in the field of scale energy storage. In this paper, the development and exploration of aqueous zinc ion battery are reviewed. Also the advantages and challenges of the zinc anode are summarized. Moreover, this paper analyzed the electrochemical properties and reaction mechanism specifically. In addition, the development of cathode materials is predicted by analyzing the insertion and extraction of multivalent ions.