journal article·2026-01Open access

Breaking the Water Activity Barrier: Hydrated Eutectic Electrolytes for Long‐Cycling and Wide‐Temperature Zinc‐Ion Batteries

Jiuchao Tang, Zhiqiang Dai, Chengwu Yang, Rungroj Chanajaree, Manunya Okhawilai, Prasit Pattananuwat, Saravanan Rajendran, Xinyu Zhang, Jiaqian Qin

Advanced Functional Materials· Volume 36· Issue 7

Abstract

Abstract The high activity of water molecules in aqueous electrolytes drives detrimental side reactions and Zn dendrite growth, severely limiting the practical application of zinc‐ion batteries (ZIBs). Herein, a biocompatible hydrated eutectic electrolyte is designed to fundamentally confine water activity and reconstruct the Zn 2+ solvation structure. The Ch + cations in choline chloride (ChCl) and glucose integrate into the primary solvation sheath of Zn 2+ , displacing coordinated water molecules and reducing the coordination number from 6 to 3.2. This unique solvation structure, combined with water molecules confined within the robust ChCl‐glucose eutectic hydrogen‐bonding network, effectively suppresses the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), corrosion, and dendrite formation. Consequently, Zn//Zn symmetric cell achieves exceptional cycling stability of 2000 h at 1 mA cm −2 . Additionally, the Zn//PANI full cells deliver 82.6% capacity retention after 2000 cycles at 3 A g −1 and a remarkable power density of 8303.29 W kg −1 at 10 A g −1 . Critically, the low glass transition temperature of the eutectic network enables stable operation across an ultra‐wide temperature range (from −20 to 50 °C), overcoming a major limitation of conventional aqueous ZIBs. This work demonstrates a potent strategy of water confinement and solvation engineering via hydrated eutectic electrolytes for practical, high‐performance, and temperature‐resilient ZIBs.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced battery technologies research · Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies · Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication

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Affiliations

State Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology Yanshan University Qinhuangdao 066004 P. R. China

Metallurgy and Materials Science Research Institute Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330 Thailand

Department of Chemical Engineering Faculty of Engineering Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330 Thailand

Center of Excellence on Advanced Materials for Energy Storage Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University Bangkok 10330 Thailand

Instituto de Alta Investigación Universidad de Tarapacá Arica 1000000 Chile

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China

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