pH-Controlled Electrolysis of Electrolytic Manganese Dioxide (EMD) for Improved Cycle Life of Rechargeable MnO<sub>2</sub>/Zn Batteries
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Abstract
A systematic study of the effect of acid concentration (0.5–5 M H 2 SO 4 ) on the electrolysis of electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD or γ-MnO 2 ) has been performed. All the samples were characterized for their phase and crystallinity, their structural water, the pyrolusitic-to-ramsdellite ratio, BET surface area, pore size range; and were examined for their electrochemical performance. Concentration of the electrolysis acid affects the structural water content and the pyrolusitic-to-ramsdellite ratio of the γ-MnO 2 phase as well as the surface area and pore size. The best cycling performance was achieved for the samples prepared with an electrolysis bath containing an acid concentration of about 2 M H 2 SO 4 . Electrochemical performance over 100 cycles of the EMD prepared in 2 M H 2 SO 4 has shown higher energy efficiency and improved longer term cycling performance compared to commercial EMD products. Post-mortem analysis of the cycled EMD samples show partial loss of the EMD phase, loss of water content, and growth of irreversible manganese dioxide phases.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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