The demand for high-performance, affordable, and safe energy storage solutions is growing, driven in part by the incorporation of fluctuating electricity sources like wind turbines and solar cells in the electric grid. Batteries offer such a storage solution in both distributed systems such as...

Zinc batteries were invented in the eighteenth century, but are still in widespread use as primary commercial batteries known as aqueous alkaline batteries. In this article, we discuss the state of the art of rechargeable aqueous zinc batteries. On the one side of the battery cell, porous zinc metal...

Electrically rechargeable zinc-air batteries have gained great attention in recent years due to their capacity to provide high energy density. The electrolyte has played a key role in the advancement of this technology and recently, aqueous chloride-based electrolytes have been demonstrated as a...