Improved Performance of Zinc Composite//Secondary Doped Li-PANI Composite Film for Rechargeable Batteries

Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Grand Ballroom (The Hilton Atlanta)
H. Cao Jr. and S. Si (Central South University)
To improve the conductivity of pure polyaniline (PANI), compact scale-like PANI secondary doped with lithium chloride (Li-PANI) was prepared after the in-situ synthesis of PANI powder using the constant current method and 4,4’-diaminobiphenyl (DABP) as an additive in hydrochloric acid (HCl) solution. The compact morphology of obtained Li-PANI was feasible for improvement the charge transfer in the PANI chains and inter-molecular. The oxidation peak currents of Li-PANI with DABP additive were nearly three times higher than those of the Li-PANI and much higher than those of in-situ doped PANI in only HCl solution. Both the LiCl-PANI/TiO2/C/DABP composite ( Li-PANI composite) and Zn/ZnO/MgO/CMC-Na composite (Zn composite) were prepared by homogeneously coating at controlled thicknesses (0.20 mm and 0.04 mm, respectively). A Zn composite was used as cathode and Li-PANI composite as anode for the fabrication of improved Zn//PANI battery, with an open voltage of approximately 1.5 V in ZnCl2+LiCl electrolyte solution. The battery charge/discharge cycle performance was determined between 0.7 V and 1.7 V. The discharge capacity of the cathode reached 131.4 mAh·g-1 at a current density of 2 mA·cm-2. During 35 charge/discharge cycles, the average decrease in the discharge capacity of each cycle was 0.07%, indicating that the cycle performance and stability of the designed battery revealed the feasible competition potential with traditional batteries.