Zinc-air batteries (ZABs) offer a sustainable and safe pathway to low-cost energy storage. Recent research shows that thermally-sintered porous Zn electrodes with a three-dimensional network structure can enhance the performance and lifetime of ZABs, but they are expensive and energy-intensive to ma...

Structurally modified hydroxyl functionalized pyridinium ionic liquids (ILs), liquid at room temperature, were synthesized and characterized. Alkylated N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-pyridinium ILs were prepared from alkylpyridines via corresponding bromide salts by N-alkylation (65–93%) and final anion exchang...

In this work, hematite microdisks (500 nm to 1 μm in diameter, ∼200 nm in thickness) have been synthesized by a facile hydrothermal method which exhibited good cycling stability at a current density of 200 mA g−1 and 1000 mA g−1, and excellent rate performance at various current densities ranging fr...