Development of advanced all-solid-state zinc air battery

从本质上讲，太阳能电池只能将光转化为即时的电力供即时使用，但不能储存能量。另一方面，可充电锌空气电池可以重复存储（和释放）能量。这些电池与传统电池的不同之处在于使用了空气电极，该电极与大气中的氧气一起工作，从而提高了比能量。将研究这些能源与工业合作伙伴开发的光伏技术的结合，以解决太阳能的不透明问题。直接评估技术和产业优势不仅有利于产业合作伙伴（i）开发自己的混合能量转换/存储系统，而且（ii）在锌空气电池的各种应用领域为其开辟新的商业机会。然而，锌空气电池的商业化受到许多技术限制的阻碍，例如空气电极的性能相对较差，由于在氧还原反应（ORR）和析氧反应（OER）期间的缓慢反应动力学以及在ORR和OER两者中发生的高电压浪涌，我们寻求开发全固态锌-空气电池，其结合了联合收割机的上级性能、高效率和长寿命，同时降低成本和简化制造，通过应用易于在工业规模上实施的生产技术，使这些电池能够用于大规模储能。学术和工业合作伙伴（Pi-Sol technologies Inc.）将创造一种独特的太阳能存储混合产品，保证清洁和节能的功能完整性，目前在加拿大很少探索。

By nature, solar cells can only convert light into instant electricity for instant use, but cannot store energy. Onthe other hand, the rechargeable Zn-air battery can store (and release) energy repeatedly. These batteries differfrom conventional batteries by using an air electrode that works with oxygen from the atmosphere, thusincreasing the specific energy. The combination of these energy sources with the photovoltaic technologydeveloped by the industrial partner will be studied in order to offer a solution to the problem of theintermittency of solar energy. Direct valuation in terms of technical and industrial advantages is not onlybeneficial to the industrial partner to (i) develop its own hybrid energy conversion/storage system but also (ii)open up new business opportunities for it in the various application sectors of zinc-air batteries.However, commercialization of the Zn-air battery is hampered by a number of limitations of the technologysuch as relatively poor performance of their air electrodes, due to slow reaction kinetics during the oxygenreduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) as well as to high voltage surges occurring inboth the ORR and the OER.We seek to develop all-solid-state zinc-air batteries that combine superior performance, high efficiency andlong life, while reducing costs and simplifying manufacturing, by applying production techniques that are easyto implement on an industrial scale to enable the deployment of these batteries for large-scale energy storage.The strong synergy between the academic and industrial partner (Pi-Sol technologies Inc.) will create a uniquesolar-storage hybrid product guaranteeing clean and energy-efficient functional integrity, currently littleexplored in Canada.