Ethanediamine Intercalation Induced Hydrogen Bond Network in Vanadium Oxide for Ultralong‐Life Aqueous Ammonium Ion Batteries

Abstract

Aqueous ammonium‐ion batteries (AAIBs) have received tremendous attention as a potential energy technology, but their development is severely challenged by the fact that the as‐reported electrode materials are usually unable to meet the requirements of high capacity and high stability simultaneously. Herein, an organic‐inorganic hybrid material of ethanediamine (EDA) intercalated vanadium oxide (VO‐EDA) is synthesized as a high‐performance anode material for AAIBs. The intercalated EDA molecules not only act as an electron donor to bind with NH4+, but also form hydrogen bonding network structures with vanadium oxides to facilitate charge/ion transfer. As a result, this hybrid material provides a high specific capacity of 104.4 mAh g−1 at 0.5 A g−1 and good cycling stability after 5000 cycles 10 A g−1 with a coulombic efficiency of ~100%. Moreover, the ammonium‐ion full cell based on VO‐EDA anode and NiHCF cathode achieves a specific capacity of 55 mAh g−1 at 0.1 A g−1 and impressive cycling stability with 88.6% capacity retention after 10000 cycles at 5 A g−1.